Tour bus’ next stop: More beer

At NoCo Short Bus Tours, the tours aren’t short. The bus is.

It’s just a 14-passenger converted airport shuttle, and that’s the way owner Mechelle Martz-Mayfield of Loveland and her customers like it.

“It’s a little more intimate,” she said. “People get to face each other and talk instead of just facing the front like a regular bus.”

Besides, the points of interest where the tour bus stops – tasting rooms at the burgeoning array of Northern Colorado craft breweries – don’t tend to be very big.

“We stop at three breweries on the three-and-a-half to four-hour tour,” Martz-Mayfield…