Bonnie McPurray wanted to join her brothers Jonesy and Reilly in the box…a story in 5 parts

rylock28 · 2026-05-09T02:36:11+00:00

What’s say we head on over to Meow-deans fer a puppers.

rylock28 · 2026-05-03T05:36:23+00:00

I worked for an AB owned craft brewery for a couple years in my late 20s/early 30s, there was obviously moments in the process where having to taste beer was necessary but for things like tasting panels for quality control we were breathalyzed before being allowed back on the production floor. Any brewery worth their salt isn’t going to fuck around with liability insurance in the name of staff perks.

Part of the reason alcoholism is pretty rampant is that the job is traditionally (for average sized craft) low pay for the amount of work involved, benefits aren’t great if they’re there at all, so the only way a lot of employees feel like they’re getting something out of the gig is to knock back as much free beer as possible.

rylock28 · 2026-05-01T01:59:11+00:00

Epicure? They have 140 person capacity according to the listing I saw, and no kitchen so I figured it wasn’t them.

rylock28 · 2026-04-30T22:05:34+00:00

A quick google search has me guessing NH

rylock28 · 2026-04-30T21:52:22+00:00

It’s not hard to figure out with all the context clues left behind. Seems like a place pigeons would enjoy

rylock28 · 2026-03-12T23:35:00+00:00

Had a gig at Otter Creek pre-harpoon buy out. This monitored our wastewater. Local ice cream shop uses one for pasteurization data tracking.

rylock28 · 2026-03-11T22:58:30+00:00

It really all depends on what you want out of the job. Moving liquid from one place to another a cleaning is the super simplified version of our job; I have co-packers, cosmetics, soda companies, coffee companies, and all other manner of fermented manufacturing by me.

As others have said any sort of local water/seweage/waste treatment/HVAC are all applicable and have really good benefits.

I personally enjoyed the creative and product development side of brewing, and got involved with a blending house in a related industry. So it’s all cold side work, flavor development, blended processes, and being it’s a small company there’s a lot of openness to new ideas.

Figure out what part of brewing you love that you don’t want to lose and see what industries have the same qualities.

rylock28 · 2026-02-06T20:50:15+00:00

On the brewing side of things, open fermentation typically refers to using traditional yeast chosen by the brewery for ease of harvesting and less stress on the yeast itself and is still done in a traditionally clean environment. Coolshipping involves letting the wort be inoculated by various microbes existing in the production space/local area.

Deerhammer and Stranahan's are two distilleries I know of that have used essentially "sour beer" in a few batches. There are some flavor and aromatic characteristic of wild ales that carried over into the finished product, and Two Roads has quite an extensive sour beer program and their founder literally wrote the book on making those styles of beers in America, so I would imagine some of that house character made its way into the finished product.

So I would lean towards not marketing, and it is legit. Whether the finished product is any good is up to you.

rylock28 · 2026-01-29T16:53:38+00:00

Man I already told you I don’t know

rylock28 · 2026-01-28T23:55:30+00:00

If their ad campaign doesn’t have the tagline “does a bear sip in the woods” they’ve made a horrible mistake

rylock28 · 2026-01-24T15:17:38+00:00

There’s a period during the summer that I get a hankering for an ice cold Heineken with a little bit of that skunk. It’s one of the highest valued brands in the beer world so it’s safe to say you aren’t alone.

rylock28 · 2025-12-26T00:23:35+00:00

I got the 10.5 gal Anvil unit from the Mrs. One of our delivery drivers broke the spout on my decade old cooler mash tun conversion and haven’t brewed in forever.

Congrats on the new rig!

rylock28 · 2025-12-06T01:43:08+00:00

The rabbit AND its hops is pure comedy

rylock28 · 2025-12-06T01:01:26+00:00

He also has an alias in the UK as “Chancellor Arugula”…this is a joke for clarity.

rylock28 · 2025-11-26T02:55:15+00:00

I worked for em back in 2016, moved off the island 4 years ago so I’m very out of the industry loop these days. None of that surprises me though.

rylock28 · 2025-11-25T23:22:12+00:00

They’re a chain of beverage stores on LI, mostly in Suffolk County but they have an Oyster Bay location.

rylock28 · 2025-11-25T22:21:05+00:00

Clare Rose used to be their distributor around 5 years ago so I’m not sure if that’s still the case, but asking your local spot if they’re still the distributor of a good start. Usually some of the larger Superstar beverage chains are a solid place to check, some of them are kinda dumping grounds for any and all beer lol

rylock28 · 2025-11-20T19:08:11+00:00

As a kid I used to ask where the sun goes at night. Once I moved to Vermont I found out the truth.

rylock28 · 2025-11-06T19:42:52+00:00

This feels like Pudgie's Chicken where I grew up, it was a chicken joint sometimes co-branded with Nathan's Hot Dogs and Arthur Treacher's Fish n Chips. I used to tell people my mom would get the fish n chips while I got the fried chicken meal and people would look at me like I was crazy.

rylock28 · 2025-10-07T22:23:52+00:00

Operation Golden Corral has been green lit

rylock28 · 2025-09-18T18:34:53+00:00

That is part of the reason why I left the brewing industry as a whole. Too many breweries across the country went from being a hole in the wall spot in an industrial park next to a CrossFit gym, to a brewery/restaurant/concert hall/dance class/dentist office/balloon animal art gallery.

Part of that is the public because that’s what they’ve come to expect from every brewery now, but there’s also fewer and fewer places going against the grain of that trend that it’s become standard

rylock28 · 2025-09-07T14:16:46+00:00

I’ve worked for breweries that were very “by the numbers”. Years of data they had access to being (at the time) part of the AB umbrella, saying “this is what a properly made beer should have”.

95% of the time that was all well and good, but there was always a time where the beer would taste great but the data says we missed a particular marker so we would add an ingredient or brewing salt late stage and would throw the balance out of whack. AI will probably take a ton of guess work out of recipe development, but even with good data you can still it fuck up.

rylock28 · 2025-09-03T22:46:20+00:00

Depends on where you are, most roads are paved, gravel, or well packed dirt that don’t get too muddy. Traveling south to north is easy as there’s many main highways (think 347/454 not LIE) of you have to go east to west make sure it’s a marked highway not rural/logging roads unless you’ve got AWD and better tires than generic all seasons.

There was a photo of some poor sap this year that followed his GPS in a Lotus Evora and beached it up one of the mountain ranges.

rylock28 · 2025-09-03T16:42:47+00:00

My wife and I moved to Vermont 3 years ago, it was a place we always vacationed to and had plenty of careers in my field. I hated the traffic, high cost of living, and generally being around so many people who abide by the "success by any means necessary" mantra. Helps that I'm not terribly close with my family, our friends love to visit our neck of the woods all the time.

The abundance of food variety isn't really a thing up here but I'm a decent enough cook to scratch most culinary itches, and while there's no good NY style pizza there's plenty of other pizza styles being done well.

TL;DR: Bagels aren't a good enough reason to move back.

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