Anybody looking for a job?

Chris Craig · February 14, 2012, 02:43:55 PM

http://www.picaroonspub.com/profiles/bl ... ring-again

fakr · February 14, 2012, 03:20:14 PM

Nice! That would be a great part time job as a "learning experience".

Kyle · February 14, 2012, 03:28:33 PM

duty #3 is quality control of finished product...

JohnE · February 14, 2012, 11:36:24 PM

I'm so applying for this, time to get off my lazy arse.

Richard · February 14, 2012, 11:38:56 PM

Good man! Best of luck!

Richard · February 14, 2012, 11:38:56 PM

Good man! Best of luck!

pliny · February 15, 2012, 08:53:26 AM

Yes, the person doing this will learn alot. It's hard labor. 90% cleaning and 10% brewing.

fakr · February 15, 2012, 10:55:37 AM

I'd be very interested to even know a big brewery's cleaning procedures, chemicals used, etc. All very valuable info.

As a brewer's assistant, I'm assuming you would be privy to some interesting techniques, quantities of grain, hops, etc....and of course tasting the brew throughout the entire process...very very valuable info.

I would seriously consider applying if I lived in Fredericton and was only working part time.

JohnE · February 15, 2012, 11:26:16 AM

When Picaroons was hiring last summer, I was talking with Sean Dunbar about it and he found a lot of people either had a romantic view about working at a brewery or they had a lot technical knowledge and didn't work out.

Richard · February 15, 2012, 11:36:13 AM

Quote from: "JohnE"had a lot technical knowledge and didn't work out.

Yeah I figure the 90/10 split pliny was talking about will mess up most people...

... though seriously, how many of us have done an all-grain brew-day and not realised that most of the actual effort is cleaning stuff

Kyle · February 15, 2012, 12:22:57 PM

I considered applying, and I could list manual labour / making boxes as experience, as well as an obvious interest in beer... however, I figured I better just finish my da*m thesis. John: good luck.

JohnE · February 15, 2012, 01:05:09 PM

Kyle, this far along you should at least finish your thesis.

pliny · February 15, 2012, 03:41:12 PM

You could just drop your thesis and start crawling inside dirty tanks and scrub like a mofo hours at a time almost everyday.

Thomas · February 15, 2012, 03:59:02 PM

iI remember when we went on the brewery tour, they had just bought the automatic bottling machine. They told us before they bough it they had a 100% turnover of people hired to do the bottling. New employees would show up, bottle a few batches by hand and quit cause it sucked so much.

Kyle · February 15, 2012, 06:38:22 PM

I can't imagine doing that all day