anyone ever work in a brewery?

[redshirt27se]

is it really as awesome as i think it would be?

i see those sam adams commercials all the time and the guy says "i drink beer daily on taste panel"

and it shows another guy walking out with a free case of beer.


i feel like this would be a great career move for me. even if the pay is crappy the free booze would offset all the money i toss towards beer anyways.

 

[ceo]

choose a good one. A friend's brother works in one. They just moved to a new location recently. Got another private tour. Last time we got some serious free pour tastes. Good beer too.

 

[digimon7068]

i was a rigger working demo on the schmidts brewery in cleveland one summer. . .

 

[redshirt27se]

i was a rigger working demo on the schmidts brewery in cleveland one summer. . .

did you get tons of free beer? how awesome was it?

 

[digimon7068]

did you get tons of free beer? how awesome was it?

naw. . .i was working demo. . .tore the damn place apart. . .blew big holes in the walls and moved out the beer tanks, bottlers, etc. . .lots of fun though. . .

 

[redshirt27se]

naw. . .i was working demo. . .tore the damn place apart. . .blew big holes in the walls and moved out the beer tanks, bottlers, etc. . .lots of fun though. . .

nice

if i actually read your original post i would've known that. lol

 

[GoldenDelicious]

building a brilliant home brewery at home with stainless steel everything bla bla bla will cost you a couple grand tops. just do taht, and stick to a decent paying job.

you can do it for a hundred bucks if you really want to i suppose, but if you overengineer it like i did with my vodka distillery, you do about 90% less work and make your booze for 70% less. all my mates thought they were champions for making vodka for $5 a bottle. im like "dude...i pay a dollar fifty."

they cried lol

 

[redshirt27se]

building a brilliant home brewery at home with stainless steel everything bla bla bla will cost you a couple grand tops. just do taht, and stick to a decent paying job.

you can do it for a hundred bucks if you really want to i suppose, but if you overengineer it like i did with my vodka distillery, you do about 90% less work and make your booze for 70% less. all my mates thought they were champions for making vodka for $5 a bottle. im like "dude...i pay a dollar fifty."

they cried lol

well i'm not about to quit my job and start working at a brewery.

about the distillery, how hard was it really? i looked up the process and it seemed ridiculously hard.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

well i'm not about to quit my job and start working at a brewery.

about the distillery, how hard was it really? i looked up the process and it seemed ridiculously hard.

if you want to build it like i did (cost me about a hundred bucks) and overengineer it so that all you had ot do was flick a switch and end up with 12 litres of vodka, it can be a pain in the ass, sure

if you want to drop 500 bucks and buy a ready made unit, its stupidly easy.

if i were you i would get one made out of a stainless steel beer keg, a stainless steel 2 inch nipple welded on top, 2 small hot water heater elements welded into the bottom of the keg, and a 3 or 4 foot long pice of fairly large (minimum 2 inch, preferably 3-4 inch diameter) copper pipe as your distilling column.

pay a boilermaker to do it all for you, or better yet, strike a deal where he makes it, and you give him booze every here and there for free

bigger, overengineered units that do larger batches cut out a LOT of repeat bullshit work, and also, yield a much better product. you could sit there with activated charcoal all day long trying ot clean up a mediocre product from a commercially purchased still, OR you can just distill large batches in a big still in the first plac,e and drink it on the spot at much higher purity

the other nice thing about big stills is that you make SO FUCKING MUCH the first time that you can afford to tinker around for the next half year while you try as hard as you can to drink batch #1, while you work on batches 2 3 and 4

i made so much vodka i was using to to clean my house. ridiculous.