An Aspirin A Beer

So after an awesome 6 o'clock  lifting session I hopped in my 1990 Nissan Sentra, that I am now driving to save some cash, and headed over for my first day at Peace Tree Brewing Co.  I had a quick introduction with the brewery staff and  I jumped right in. We started bottling  Peace Trees IPA the Hop Wrangler, and I soon realized that an enormous amount of man power goes into each bottle. I  was picking up bottles off of a pallet placing them on a conveyor belt which were then labeled, picked up by another person sanitized, filled, capped, picked up by another person placed into boxes and stacked onto another pallet. Three different people had to handle each bottle of beer that was bottled that day, not to mention all the hours that went into brewing, the people that had to deliver all the materials to the brewery.  We then bottled a few pallets of the Red Rambler and that pretty much took up the majority of the day. The guys were jokingly taking bets on how long I would last and I had to agree that the job was definitely labor intensive. I'm glad that I am a fairly active person or I would not have faired as well. I'm sorry guys I'm going to be back, so hopefully you bet on me being around awhile. While on my half hour drive home I started thinking about how much actually goes into getting that six pack of beer onto a shelf and it's amazing. It made me think about everything we use and how much actually goes into each product. Check into tomorrow on "My Brewing Adventure" to see how my day helping distribute the many Peace Tree brews throughout the Des Moines area goes.