Our stay at Thousand Trails Hershey kept us close enough to many places to stay busy. Of course we had to visit Hershey's Chocolate World and the Hershey Museum.
The Pennsylvania countryside is gorgeous with its rolling hills and varied fields. We meandered the two lane highways past golden cornfields and soybeans, stopping to visit a couple of wineries. At every intersection there are old towns with quaint big old houses dating from the late 1700s.
We toured the Yuengling Brewery in Pottstown, PA founded in 1829 by a German immigrant. It is the oldest brewery in America (the second oldest is Shell Brewery in New Ulm, MN--guess we'll have to go there some day) and is a fifth generation family business.
The tour is free and you have to wear closed toed shoes--hence a room full of shoes at the start of the tour! (We wore ours there).
Up the hill to the old brewery which is still used and inside we were amazed at the mixture of old and new. The stained glass ceiling was put in years ago to lessen the sunlight in the brewing room. It was carefully removed when they updated some brewing equipment and carefully replaced.
We also went down into the hand dug caves where the beer was aged (altogether we walked up and down about 200 steps).
It was quite the production!
One of the best things about the tour was going with Keith and Marie! Afterwards we all had a chance to taste the brew!! Yum!
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Hi guys!! Great pictures of PA and the Chocolate Factory. Look like a you had a very "sweet" time!! Nice to see Keith out and about. Hope to see you this winter.
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