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Post-Meeting Tours

Optional Post-Meeting Tours add value to your travel to Denver and are a unique, great way to expand your network and connect with fellow members.

Be sure to plan your travel to take in these unique opportunities! (Please note the tour end time. The bus will not return to the hotel until the conclusion of all tours. I you need to depart early, you will be responsible for your own transportation).

Seed & Brew Tour

Brief Overview

This trip will include a tour of the USDA Seed Vault, Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Troubadour Maltings, and New Belgium Brewery. Transportation and lunch are included in the tour registration fee along with beer samples (21 and over) at the brewery. Register today for this unique opportunity for networking with your association industry peers!

Time

8:00am - 6:30pm

Pricing

$105 Member / $135 Non-Member

USDA ARS Seed Vault - National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

This large facility is the only such operation in the country that does this for the United States. The facility has an impressive research component with a working gene bank where materials are constantly being processed and studied. Cereals and Grains Association participants will be especially interested in their processing procedures and how they evaluate the quality of seeds

The tour will explore the kinds of materials they are storing, why and how genetic resources are stored.
It will start with an overview of their mission along with a history of how the vault came to be. The group will then move upstairs to learn about the strategies in collection - how they go after certain things and the diversity they seek. From there you’ll move on to processing - specifically how they deal with processing, storage, (cold and Liquid nitrogen storage.) This is where you will go inside the vaults and experience the size and scope of the operation.

Note:
Plan to wear layers – cold vaults are cold (0 degrees)
Security requires a photo ID upon check in.
No purses, backpacks or heavy coats are permitted in the building; all personal belonging should stay in the bus.

Limagrain Cereal Seed Tour

Limagrain Cereal Seeds is dedicated to developing new, improved grain varieties bred expressly for our growers’ climates, soils and growing conditions. They have more than 75 distinct varieties in the marketplace – offered in 36 states and representing all major market classes of wheat and barley – and they are constantly researching, breeding, testing and releasing new varieties to meet the needs of growers.

During the Limagrain tour, you’ll get a general company and process overview and then tour the labs. (They’re hoping to be processing wheat quality council samples during our visit!)

The tour will focus on sharing where AACC methods are utilized; where future wheat is analyzed; and technologies that are applied…High Amylose and CoAXium wheat produced.

Troubadour Maltings

At Troubadour Maltings, you'll learn how they produce high quality malt for the brewing and distilling industry by building relationships with the growers of grains from throughout Colorado. By taking a craft approach to the malting process, they produce unique and flavorful malts that inspire their brewers and distillers.

New Belgium Brewery

During the VIP Behind the Scenes tour, we’ll break into small groups to make the most of the interactive guided tours through New Belgium’s impressive Analytical Chemistry, Microbiology and Sensory Labs and tour of the brewery.

Tours will include a beer tasting (21 years old and over). Additional beer can be purchased from the taproom for $5-7 each.

This final stop will provide ample time to relax and network with the participants in this tour and the Bread and Brew tour.

*Limit 50 People - Register Soon!

*Full Meeting Registration is Required to Attend Post-Meeting Tours

Bread & Brew Tour SOLD OUT

Brief Overview

This tour will include a tour of Ardent Mills, Whole Foods Market — Rocky Mountain Bakehouse, Root Shoot Malting, and New Belgium Brewery. Transportation and lunch are included in the tour registration fee along with beer samples (21 and over) at the brewery. Register today for this unique opportunity for networking with your association industry peers!

Time

8:00am - 6:30pm

Pricing

$105 Member / $135 Non-Member

Whole Foods Market - Rocky Mountain Bakehouse

Whole Foods Market is a leading U.S. retailer of natural and organic foods uniquely positioned as America's Healthiest Grocery Store.

This tour will be a walkthrough of Whole Foods’ commissary bakery, which provides pizza dough, cakes, cookies, pastries, breads and rolls for local Whole Foods Stores. Attendees will tour the processing facility, including raw material storage and use, dough make-up, forming, dough fermentation, dough proofing, baking, and cooling. This will be a typical batch style process, where several knowledgeable bakers look at performance and consistency throughout the process.

Ardent Mills

Known for their broad range of flours, mixes, blends and specialty products, this tour will experience the following at the Ardent Mills Denver headquarters:

Wheat Receiving & Analytical Area
Experimental Milling Area
Flour Analytical Area
Hard Wheat Baking Area
Soft Wheat Baking Area
R&D Capabilities
Culinary Kitchen

Root Shoot Malting

Root Shoot’s family of 5th generation farmers grow, harvest and malt the finest grains to give brewers and distillers high-quality taste in every glass. Located on 1,500 acres of irrigated land in beautiful Loveland, Colorado they harvest alfalfa, rye, wheat, corn and barley.

See first-hand how Root Shoot has taken what they learned from the farmers before them, use today’s most innovative agricultural equipment, while making the least impact on the earth to keep the land healthy for the next generation of Root Shoot farmers.

Root Shoot Malting is in the unique position to control the entire malting process from seed variety and growth, to harvest and final kilning.