Well I'm on to my third week now as assistant brewer at Black Tooth Brewery. I have to say I enjoy it more than I did my desk job. The atmosphere and the pace is easy and enjoyable. Though I have a long way to go to become a master brewer, I am getting familiar with the down and dirty work of a brewery and learning more every day. Below are a few pictures from my first week. (Not shown: the keg washer. I have spent many hours with the piece of machinery, and I have a feeling we're going to see much more of each other)
Pretty new tanks all in a row! I pulled all the protective coating off these tanks the first morning on the job. I doesn't seem like it'd be too bad, but they are crammed in against the freezer wall forcing me to think like a contortionist.
20 gallon buckets of tired yeast pulled off the bottom of the fermentors
Milling grains for a 640 gallon batch of Amber. The white pipe has an auger in it the carries the cracked barley to the brewhouse
Filling kegs in the walk-in-cooler from a different 640 gallon batch of Amber. This is a time consuming (and cold) process. Notice the lovely yellow pallet-jack. I have become quite proficient with this thing, and this week I learn to run a forklift :) !!!
All in all, the job doesn't suck!
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