Brewing beer is one of the toughest jobs out there. Many on this site dream of giving up out 9-5's and working at a brewery. It isn't an all bread and roses job though. Reality is much different than our perception. It is hard manual work meshed with laboratory like standards precise tasks. Hats off today to those who came before us and stood up for good pay and benefits for those blessed few who send beautiful delicious beer to our kegerators and beer coolers every day! You are the salt of the earth! http://ricksmithshow.com/may-14-day-beer-stopped-flowing
You know, we have a National _____ Week (or month) for just about every occupation, special celebration, etc. so we should honor brewery employees with their own 'week' too. It is hard work and long hours with generally not-so-great wages in return for a product that we all immensely enjoy, so I'll say "Cheers to All of the Brewery Workers" who read this!!! Edit: And we should probably widen it to include everyone in the brewing industry including distributors, retailers, website owner/operators, etc. Cheers to all of you!
Well, it is National Craft Beer Week this week. Maybe we could all celebrate by going out and buying even more beer, to make sure these hard-working folks can keep their jobs.
And not just the brewers. A shout out to the cellarmen. They clean the dirty kegs coming in, fill the clean kegs, clean the brewery, prep outgoing loads, and just generally do all the scut work around a brewery. Cheers Cellarmen!!!!
There is a lot of blood sweat and tears in those beautiful brown bottles. Thanks again especially to the folks in the article who went without for 76 days against the early owners of Blatz, Miller Schlitz and Pabst to make those jobs worth having!
What beer is getting that? I recently had a rauchbier with a mild amount of ginger added, and I loved it. I don't thing I've had ginger in a beer before that one.
Brewing is truly an art and a science. If you can get those two to harmonize you will have sublime liquid......
You sir are welcome. It is alot of hard work, long hours, late nights, early mornings, low pay and wet feet, but I still love doing it and producing a product that people enjoy. I usually don't wear staff shirts at the brewery so I often get to hear customers unfiltered opinions and generally speaking people are truly complimentary. If it weren't for the craft beer community supporting their local brewers, we couldn't do it without all of you. Cheers.
