Photopilot
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I thought we decided you could scrape by on $9
Yep, but now that he is getting $10 he is going to get rich while brewing beer.
I thought we decided you could scrape by on $9
I have always been able to drink for free there since my good friends were in the tap room.You guys really might think im crazy now but i dont drink much.I drink like a beer a day maybe a few on sundays with friends.I might go a week with out craving a beer at all.
I did landscape design / sales/ maintenance for a high end nursery. no pizza to hook people up with.
100$ a day 5 days a week for the next 3 weeks. Thats what i was told.Seems pretty fair. i mean its about 10$ an hour so as a job i couldn't do it but for a month of training i think its perfectly fair.Today they kept handing me drinks and samples, i might have had 5 beers.Fridays seem to be a bit more lax.
^^^was thinking the exact same thing. Good luck Grod1. We're all betting on ya!
C'mon....you're just hoping he'll invite us over for beers. Aren't you?
I'm not a lawyer though, so what do I know.
There are worse things than $8 or $10 or $12 an hour..... yeah - that is a low hourly wage for sure. However, I have known breweries that put their people on "salary" in the $20,000-$30,000 range..... and then they end up working them 60-80 hours a week..... you don't want to start doing the math on $27,000 salaries and 80 hour weeks....
So today i was told free bottles, grain, and hops.It sure as hell aint health insurance but its a great benefit for us home brewers and certainly generous. Obviously i wont abuse that, but i will certainly take advantageI for see a lot of small experimental beers.
This won't fly anymore with the new overtime laws going into effect at the end of the year. Anyone with a salaried position making less than like 50k per year will no longer be exempt from overtime pay. Although, I think some industries are still able to get around it somehow. I'm in the IT field and a few of my colleagues fall under this new law.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/
Yeah i didn't think bottles would be free so i asked him if can purchase them at cost.Thats when i was told i can have free bottles along with grain and hops.Super awesome. i didnt ask about a beer ration/ reduced prices yet.
The only stipulation for the bottle was bring in some home brews if i am happy with them.
This won't fly anymore with the new overtime laws going into effect at the end of the year. Anyone with a salaried position making less than like 50k per year will no longer be exempt from overtime pay. Although, I think some industries are still able to get around it somehow. I'm in the IT field and a few of my colleagues fall under this new law.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/
as a teacher, I know this is not going to apply us. I make less than 50k a year, and routinely put in 50-60 hours a week.
edit: after looking at the new law, a brewer with an apprentice, could consider himself a teacher, and the apprentice a student and be exempt from that law as well. At least that is how I read it.
nothing new yet. Its taken me this long to be able to start working without asking anyone what i should do.
I go in prep the keg racker/ let it CIP for 15 mins with saniclean while i get half barrels and sixels ready.I prep 30 (50L) kegs to be filled.
Take a zham reading from the brite tank, adjust the C02 if needed.If c02 if fine dump the trub. Then take two sample. one from the sample cock and one from the racking arm.If the two samples match im good to start racking. If not i dump a little more.
Scrub down racking arm. attach the product pump hose.Bleed the saniclean water out of the system and when i get to clean beer start filling kegs.
as kegs are filling i start to palletize the beer.
after all beer is kegged and palletized. i CIP the keg racker.I CIP the brite and start to bring up to pressure.
Weigh out grains for the next days brews.
general cleaning
go home, smoke/drink
nothing new yet. Its taken me this long to be able to start working without asking anyone what i should do.
I go in prep the keg racker/ let it CIP for 15 mins with saniclean while i get half barrels and sixels ready.I prep 30 (50L) kegs to be filled.
Take a zham reading from the brite tank, adjust the C02 if needed.If c02 if fine dump the trub. Then take two sample. one from the sample cock and one from the racking arm.If the two samples match im good to start racking. If not i dump a little more.
Scrub down racking arm. attach the product pump hose.Bleed the saniclean water out of the system and when i get to clean beer start filling kegs.
as kegs are filling i start to palletize the beer.
after all beer is kegged and palletized. i CIP the keg racker.I CIP the brite and start to bring up to pressure.
Weigh out grains for the next days brews.
general cleaning
go home, smoke/drink
Grod1 you are where I hope to be in 6 months or so. I "volunteer" for a local small brewer (runs a fairly successful taproom out of his house) and he works my tail end off. But I have learned ever so much more working there and the experience is great. Yesterday we started at 5:30am and got two 55gal batches done by 6pm. During the mash and boil, if there's nothing to clean, we get to sit and shoot the breeze, sample what's on tap, and watch the boss get super energized describing how he's building the brewstands for me and the other guy. We've done one collaborative recipe so far and are working on more. He's hoping to expand into a larger space within the next year and we've been told paying jobs are in our future. For now (since I do have a full-time job) I'm very happy doing what I'm doing.
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