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conneryis007

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Looking for some feedback on a job I just applied to. Any draft technicians out there want to share their general work experiences? I will also value your experience on the other side of things as a bar owner/worker. For bonus points any experience with Hupp Draft Services?

I'm very excited about this potential job. I know its not a glorious job, but I'm not afraid to get my "hands dirty". Plus its a way to get into the beer industry!!
 
Wow!! Life in a big city is different.
Not knocking what you are looking at doing, but it sure does take a LARGE population to generate enough work for that particular profession.

I've never heard of anything but bartenders cleaning the equipment, ( assuming they clean it at all ). Most bars that I've been around don't have so many taps that they need help, plus the average bar doesn't run with a margin that lets them hire specialists to do that sort of work. Even replacing the taps from time to time would be cheaper than a specialist.

I would bet that the beer tastes fresher and better at the places that do hire a specialist to clean and maintain the draft system though.
 
45_70sharps said:
Wow!! Life in a big city is different.
Not knocking what you are looking at doing, but it sure does take a LARGE population to generate enough work for that particular profession.

I've never heard of anything but bartenders cleaning the equipment, ( assuming they clean it at all ). Most bars that I've been around don't have so many taps that they need help, plus the average bar doesn't run with a margin that lets them hire specialists to do that sort of work. Even replacing the taps from time to time would be cheaper than a specialist.

I would bet that the beer tastes fresher and better at the places that do hire a specialist to clean and maintain the draft system though.
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Actually most places have draft cleaners, they run routes to different bars.
 
I would bet $100 that if you walked into any of the bars around here, nobody would have heard of a draft cleaner.
 
45_70sharps said:
I would bet $100 that if you walked into any of the bars around here, nobody would have heard of a draft cleaner.
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I would be surprised if the artic tavern even cleaned a whole lot of anything haha.
 
Punity said:
I would be surprised if the artic tavern even cleaned a whole lot of anything haha.
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Hey! You're in Aberdeen!! And you're right about the artic tavern.
I live in Raymond, but I work in Hoquiam and my family is from Aberdeen.
So being in Aberdeen, where do you go for brewing supplies? Olympia?
 
Please don't thread-jack me!
Looking for insight into this industry. Anyone have experience with draft technicians??
 
45_70sharps said:
Hey! You're in Aberdeen!! And you're right about the artic tavern.
I live in Raymond, but I work in Hoquiam and my family is from Aberdeen.
So being in Aberdeen, where do you go for brewing supplies? Olympia?
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Pm
 
conneryis007 said:
Please don't thread-jack me!
Looking for insight into this industry. Anyone have experience with draft technicians??
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I had them come in on a regular basis. I had 3 draft lines and 3 wine lines.

It was every 3 weeks or so and the operation was a family owned business
(two brothers I think--It was in the mid 80's).

Very clean, very neat and once finished they would test everything out with a little taste test.

All they needed was a sink. They had chemicals a bucket and a pump. They also cleaned the keg connectors and the keg couplings.

I have no idea as to how much they were paid (almost 30 years) but to me and my customers it was well worth the price.

bosco
 
No insight on what the job's like, but here in Nova Scotia, the breweries contract a company to do the job. Labatt's send a guy around a couple times a golf season to clean the lines and check the system. Makes sense, why have dumb yocal local bar staff making their product inferior, just makes good quality control sense to do it.
 

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