Sir Mud Chicken, Please

[Mookie]

But the rest of you can ponder this:

They are giving drowned chickens in Colorado mouth-to-mouth. And reviving them. I thought only turkeys drowned; not those smart chickens!

I still ain't touching my lips to any beak!

Anyway - surrounded by much paper, looking for a pen to record locomotive numbers, sun in my eyes, books all around for reference and Driver tells me that there is a beer train going by.

I see only rusty old tank cars and box cars - lots of each, headed west. The whole train is like that. Exasperated, I asked him what made him so smart that he could tell they were hauling beer ingredients.

[sigh] - He was right, again! CORX!

But why would the tank cars, that are probably carrying that ideal Rocky Mountain water, so rusty on the outside? They looked really bad. Or are they carrying something else and if that is what made the outside so rusty looking, I can see why beer tastes as bad as it does!

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[tree68]

IIRC, most likely the cars are lined. As long as the lining is intact, the fittings are clean, and the structural integrity of the car is not compromised, a little rust on the outside is probably no big deal.

Seems like somebody once said that they aren't carrying water or beer - more like something in the middle. Not something you'd want to tap if you found the car parked on a remote siding....

[CopCarSS]

They're only rusty on the outside. Inside, those are glass lined tanks, that drop something like only a 1/4 degree per day or hour, or something like that. they're being shipped to the Coors facility in Tennessee for bottling.

Chris
Denver, CO

[Mookie]

But you can read the side and know that it is Coors. And rusty tanks aren't good advertising. It may only be wort, but .........

What caused the outsides to "rust"? Is the wort really that potent?

Ugh!

[kevarc]

Yeah, but I would bet it would make really good fertilizer for the garden.

[locomutt]

Actually beer doesn't taste that bad; (according to the dog)
And believe it or not;her 'brand' of prefference IS Coors.
Wouldn't mind taking my 'tapper' to that siding.

[CopCarSS]

I think it's just a result of some spillage over years and years of use. Just like when you see yellow around tank cars carrying sulphur. The cars aren't marked for Coors other than the reporting marks. Unless you know that CORX is the Coors reporting mark, it's just a tank car in a train.

Kevarc, you're closer to the truth than you think. After some environmental mishaps, Coors has gotten to teh point where they try to use everything they can. For example, the grains that go into the beer making process are utilized for animal feed and such after the brewing process.

Chris
Denver, CO

[mudchicken]

CopcarSS is correct, it is just spillage and it is wort. After it is brewed, the waste out of the Kettles is fed to cattle in feed yards. (The stuff mookie is watching is coming/going to Newport News, VA or Memphis, TN (soon to close after the Molson Merger, Kevin must not be drinking enough)

Cannot speak for where Coors sends their recyclables as feed, but Anhueser Busch's FT Collins brewery sends the post kettle solids to Julian, KS (between Johnson & Manter, KS on Cimarron Valley Ry./ Old ATSF Manter Sub. for feed lots in West Central Kansas along US-160 (Ulysses, Sublette, Johnson, Richfield, Garden City/Holcomb and Hugoton).....The waste water is pumped east along CR52 about 8 miles in a 24 inch high pressure line to Busch subsidiary Nutri-Turf where it uses pivot irrigation to grow sod, oats, barley, hay, alfalfa and other crops to feed the Clydesdales and support other brewery projects including a golf course. Walk through the fields on summer mornings and it smells like a bread bakery out there around the Weld/Larimer County Line.
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Mudchicken @
Glenwood Springs, CO

[kevarc]

I don't drink cool aid. As I have become older (48 tomarrow) I have really slowed the drinking down. And when I do drink, it is usually a dark beer.

[Mookie]

Happy Birthday Kevin! A Spring Chicken! [:D]

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[locomutt]

Happy Birthday Kevin!!!! Oh; to be 48 again;NOT !!!!!! [:D]
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[tree68]

Mud chickens, spring chickens, barbequed chickens - What's this world coming to?[;)]

[Leon Silverman]

"After it is brewed, the waste out of the Kettles is fed to cattle in feed yards." Is this what keeps the Carnation cows so contented?

[CShaveRR]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Leon Silverman

"After it is brewed, the waste out of the Kettles is fed to cattle in feed yards." Is this what keeps the Carnation cows so contented?

Of Coors it is![;)]

[CShaveRR]

I haven't seen any of the CORX tank cars for a while; when I did see them they were still reasonably white. The possibility of spillage had occurred to me, but I think that the difference between spillage and rust from other causes should be fairly obvious.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

I haven't seen any of the CORX tank cars for a while; when I did see them they were still reasonably white. The possibility of spillage had occurred to me, but I think that the difference between spillage and rust from other causes should be fairly obvious.

I have seen the chemical tanks with, for instance, the yellow spillage that marks them. This was - from my vantage point - just plain rust. I realize it doesn't harm the contents, but when you are hauling a commodity that is edible - even the edible tallow cars are nicer looking. Unless wort looks like rusty rust.......something is eating the paint.

I will never forgive you for the "of Coors it is"........ [B)]

[CopCarSS]

Hmmmm...methinks I'll have to take a trip to Coors this weekend, and scout out the tanks cars (actually, I could do this about a mile from my house when the beer train runs by, but there's no free beer at the grade crossing like there is whe you take the plant tour!) [:D]

Chris
Denver, CO