Blog #11 Beer, Bananas and Beaches.....

As most of you know, I'm not much of a beer drinker but I really like Sands beer. Sands Light is the best!!!! It is made right here on Grand Bahama Island and I was curious as to why this beer was so yummy so I planned a tour of the brewery.

As you drive along the Queen's Highway going west out of town, you suddenly spy this lovely wooden carved statue of this fine looking fellow at the entrance to the Bahamian Brewing Company. We paid $5 a head and the 15 minute tour began.

These are big beer holders. See how I got all of the fancy lingo?

A few bottles are pulled from the line every few hours and tested in this lab. If they are not up to scratch, the whole line is shut down. This has never happened in the 6 years that Sands has been produced on the island. In all this brewery manufactures 4 different types of beer; Sands, Sands Light, Strong Black, High Rock, Tripple B ( a malt drink that is totally disgusting ) and a new one to be released soon with a could be rude name. We all had little sips and I realized all too soon that this is what the $5 was for. Most people come on this tour to get ripped!!!!! We went at 10:30 in the morning. Do I need to say more?

The bottling facility was fun to watch. They recycle their bottles. We took back a case of 24 that took us 3 months to drink and got $2 back. The brewery is the only place you can take the bottles back to.

Now here is the Sands secret. All of the barley and malt come from Germany. The two brewmasters come from Germany so naturally the beer is great!!!! It is German beer!!!! Yum!!!

How is this? Bananas growing in our backyard right outside of our unit. They are very fat short bananas but taste excellent!!! There are lots of fish in the canal but they are so amazingly smart you can't catch them!!! We feed them bread and they come in herds of lots of different kinds. Really fun to watch.

We thought we had found all of the gorgeous beaches that Grand Bahama Island had to offer and then we found Barbary Beach. Just 30 minutes from home and just as gorgeous as the Lucian National Park.

We still enjoy our Xanadu beach just 3 minutes from home. Yesterday we took Tristan to the beach. "Sure I can swim but only in little water." Didn't take me long to realize what that meant, I love to play and jump and scream a lot in the water but I sink like a lead weight. He had so much fun. I hope Jerrisma agrees with me that dirty kids are happy kids. He sure was covered with sand when I returned him!!!!!!