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Uncategorized Boards => General => Topic started by: Chris Craig on February 14, 2012, 02:43:55 PM

Title: Anybody looking for a job?
Post by: Chris Craig on February 14, 2012, 02:43:55 PM
http://www.picaroonspub.com/profiles/bl ... ring-again (http://www.picaroonspub.com/profiles/blogs/we-re-hiring-again)
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Post by: fakr on February 14, 2012, 03:20:14 PM
Nice!  That would be a great part time job as a "learning experience".
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Post by: Kyle on February 14, 2012, 03:28:33 PM
duty #3 is quality control of finished product...
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Post by: JohnE on February 14, 2012, 11:36:24 PM
I'm so applying for this, time to get off my lazy arse.
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Post by: Richard on February 14, 2012, 11:38:56 PM
Good man! Best of luck!
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Post by: Richard on February 14, 2012, 11:38:56 PM
Good man! Best of luck!
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Post by: pliny on February 15, 2012, 08:53:26 AM
Yes, the person doing this will learn alot. It's hard labor. 90% cleaning and 10% brewing.
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Post by: fakr on 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.
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Post by: JohnE on 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.
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Post by: Richard on 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 :P
Title: Re: Anybody looking for a job?
Post by: Kyle on 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.
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Post by: JohnE on February 15, 2012, 01:05:09 PM
Kyle, this far along you should at least finish your thesis.  :)
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Post by: pliny on 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.
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Post by: Thomas on 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.
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Post by: Kyle on February 15, 2012, 06:38:22 PM
I can't imagine doing that all day
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Post by: Jake on February 15, 2012, 08:46:24 PM
yea almost as bad as writing a thesis
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Post by: JohnE on February 16, 2012, 12:30:28 AM
I still think Kyle should finish his thesis, not that I'm trying to reduce the competition for the position or anything like that.  ;)