The Little Creamery in Brenham

100 years ago, the Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham, Texas started turning excess cream from local farmers' milk into butter and ice cream. Fast-forward to today and this little creamery produces the third best selling ice cream in the country, while only distributing to grocery stores in 17 of our states. If you are not lucky enough to live in one of those states and have not tried Blue Bell ice cream, get to one as fast as you can! It is delicious.

This morning, the buddies and I travelled the 105 miles to Brenham, Texas to meet up with Aunt Carlee and Cousin Michael and tour the Blue Bell Creamery. During the 45 minute tour we learned about the history of Blue Bell Ice Cream and saw first-hand how ice cream is made and packaged. At the end of the tour, we were treated to a scoop of our favorite flavor. Ben preferred birthday cake and Ace's favorite flavor was peach (although there could be a tie with Aunt Carlee's strawberry, which both boys devoured for her).

An interesting tidbit about Blue Bell: the slogan, "We eat all we can and we sell the rest" really is true! Employee break rooms at the factory are heavily stocked with pints of the creamiest ice cream in the country. Our tour guide admitted that at 11am, she had already eaten some ice cream... and she probably would eat some more before leaving for the day.

Once we had eaten all the ice cream our stomachs could hold, we spent some time on the front lawn of the creamery, burning off our sugar highs. The buddies loved the Blue Bell train out front and enjoyed wearing their free souvenir hats.