After an early night last night, I slept until noon today, then lazed around for a couple hours in the room. It was pissing rain out anyhow, so I wasn't missing much for scenery. I had an all-fruit lunch of banana, cantaloupe (or rockmelon as they call it), honeydew melon, strawberries, kiwi, and mango yogurt. Delicious and rare to be eating that much for fruits, as they are wicked expensive and a hassle to prepare in the busy kitchens here. Seeing as we had already covered every art gallery and museum in the area yesterday, I was flipping through brochures to find a good indoor activity. And then jackpot, a tour of the XXXX beer factory that is a few blocks from the hostel. Got a couple other lads from the room to join and we booked on for the tour at 4.
I've never toured a beer factory, or factory of any sort for that matter, even though Great Western has tours in Saskatoon all the time. It was well worth the $22 admission. We watched some video clips about the formation of the company and the brewing process, and viewed a little story about the progression of the first XXXX beer to today with talking mannequins, etc. It was super cheesy, but kind of funny. Then we got to go through each section of the factory, view the raw products used to make the beer (hops looks like hamster feed pellets), see the bottling/labelling lines and finish off with 4 XXXX beers. I had a stout, a Gold, and two Summer lagers that were easily the tastiest beers I had consumed in a long while.
Cooked up some pasta and fried sausage with a three cheese sauce again for supper tonight (just as delicious as last night) and had an early night again.
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