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The trip to Papercity Brewery was a memorable one. It was exciting to visit a brewery because I’d never been to a brewery before. I thought it would be a fun trip. I thought all I had to do was beer bottling and taste different kind of beers but it was not the case.
We had a little trouble on finding the place. There is just a little sign indicating where the brewery is and there are only a few parking spots. The road to the parking lot is VERY bumpy too. I am glad that I did not have to drive.
The volunteer night at the brewery was not just bottling beer. It was like cheap labor even though we got a box of beers for free after five hours of hard work. 12 cans of beers in a box cost around 10 dollars. Assuming a dollar per can in retail price, we get 24 bottles for 24 dollars. If we pay a little extra, for instance, 30 dollars for 24 bottles and we divide 30 dollars by 5 hours of work. We were paid 6 dollars per hour of work. It’s like minimum wage.
Justin was picked to work at the front of the brewery near the entrance once we got in. Brian then helped out in that section later. I only saw Justin once at the back when he came to grab a beer throughout the 5 hours volunteer work. Francisco and I were working at the back of the brewery. We put the stickers on stacks of empty beer bottle. It was actually pretty tiring. We didn’t actually fool around getting drunk at the brewery. We were all doing hard work. We could drink beers when we work but we did not actually drink much because we had to work. I had the chance to taste few different local beers. The beers taste different than the international brands. The tastes are different. One of them tastes like Chinese herbal medicine. So, I didn’t really like it. One of them tastes like coffee and I don’t like coffee, so I didn’t like that either. The lights were dim at the brewery. This is really bad for our eyes. We did not have break within the five hours. I sneaked to the other side of the brewery which was a bar area to have a smoke. There were ashtrays on the table, so I assumed we could smoke in there. However, a guy with a volunteer shirt came up to me and told me that we couldn’t smoke in the brewery. I was surprised because I saw many cigarette butts on the ashtrays and what’s the point of having ashtrays on the tables if we couldn’t smoke in there. Moreover, a cigarette break wouldn’t take more than five minutes anyway. This was one thing that got on my nerves. Other than this, it was a great experience.
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