Denver Meats, Inc. - Makers of Hippeys Meat Products - 2014-06-25

Denver Meats, Inc.  - Makers of Hippeys Meat Products - 2014-06-25

We had a wonderful tour of Denver Meats this morning! Our friends Sam and Ginger Hippey are co-owners of the company. It is a family owned business.

They make simply the finest smoked sausage, bologna, and hot dogs that we have ever tasted! They use no fillers except some dried non-fat milk, and the products are gluten free.

Their FaceBook page is at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hippeys-Meat-Company/108691189161702
Got FaceBook? Go ahead and "Like" Hippeys

Their web page is under construction at: http://denvermeatsinc.com/

We hope you enjoy the goodness of Hippeys as much as we do!

Hippeys Meats Product Line

After being smoked, the hotdog cellophane casings

are removed in an amazing blur!

Hot dogs being packed for shipment

Ginger Hippey and Nola

The smell of the smoked dogs is heavenly!

Ring bologna on the "tree" ready for the smoker

Above, Sam Hippey
Below, Sam and Gingers grandson
Dallas Hippey

Packing the ring casing

The smoker holds 6 "trees" of meats

The meat being ground for making rings

Hi Dallas!

Trimming the ring sausage before packaging

Putting the rings in bags for vacuum pack

The vacuum packed rings then go through
a flash-heat-shrink, and are ready for packing

Georgetown KY, April 2013

Georgetown for us was horses and scenery and...um...Bourbon!

Kentucky has its own unique country charm. Lazily exploring the area seemed to fit with that charm. It is truly scenic, so I wasted a lot of film while we were there ;-)

We had a grand time on the Bourbon Trail. http://kybourbontrail.com/ Each distillery has its own special recipe for and way of making the mash and aging and blending. The finest moments, believe it or not, is not the tasting, but the bonded warehouses! When they open the huge oak doors, the ambrosia-like aroma of fresh sourdough bread that has been tainted with bourbon will waft out to you, surround you and may cause a tiny bit of wanton spittle to gather at the corner of your mouth.

There is a free tour of the Toyota factory in Georgetown. it was quite an entertaining show of today's technology in manufacturing autos. A good time, and FREE!  http://www.toyotageorgetown.com/tour.asp

Old Friends was quite a highlight of our stay in Georgetown. http://www.oldfriendsequine.org/ You get to feed carrots to the horses while the guide narrates fascinating stories about the Old Friends farm, and each individual horse that is on display.  Many of the heroes here we literally saved from the glue factory! Some horses were bought for as little as $30,000 and returned millions in winning, and some cost millions to buy and brought back little to nothing in winnings. They are all gorgeous, friendly, and waiting to see you!

 View from our RV.  Oops. Upside-down!

Wild Turkey Distillery

Old Friends racehorse retirement farm

Pahrump, NV - March 2013

Red Rock Canyon, China Ranch Date Farm, Wheeler Pass, NV - March 2013

We stayed for 2 weeks in Pahrump NV. It is a lovely hunk of desert, with more surprises than we expected.


Wheeler Pass was right near us, and we followed a bunch of kamikazi desert cars for the 23 mile trek. A total blast, and superbly scenic. Saw a desert tortoise on the way in.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/overlandroutes/index.php?title=Wheeler_Pass

China Rand Date Farm was an unexpected surprise! Out in the middle of zip-point-nuthin kitty litter between Pahrump and Death Valley is a dusty road that goes steeply down hill...into an amazing oasis. It is a mom-and-pop-shop that does a brisk business out of their tiny facility, and the history of the area (see link) is facinating.
 https://www.chinaranch.com/

Red Rock Canyon, between Pahrump and Las Vegas, is just one of those drop-dead gorgeous places that fills up with gawkers every weekend. The wall climbers were waaaay beyond my climbing skills! WOOF!
 http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/lvfo/blm_programs/blm_special_areas/red_rock_nca.html

 A Desert Tortoise

Wheeler Pass is the notch straight ahead

Red got real dirty. A happy boy!

Wheeler Pass from camp; 23 miles!

Red Rock Canyon

And some wall climbing!

China Ranch Date Farm

The date shakes are Om-Nom!

Amazing limestone sculptures on the trail to China Ranch