Hop Talk

I imagine that being a brewer at a craft brewery is a true labor of love. I have no doubt that it is hard work, but at the end of the day, you’re getting paid to make beer!

I stumbled across this the other day at the Beercraft blog:

A shout-out to the Brewers

Not the Milwaukee baseball team.

Is there a more thankless job than Brewer at a microbrewery? You have to lug tons of heavy shit around all day, spend half your time up to the elbows in caustic as you sanitize, work around huge boiling vats even in the middle of summer, and deal with high waitstaff turnover that could give fuck-all about what you labor to create.

Read the rest of it here: http://beercraft.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/repost-a-shout-out-to-the-brewers/