Tales from a server in the taproom of a brewery

One of the most embarrassing moments I have ever had as a server. Spilled the full beer on a 2 year old girl in her pink tu tu. The parents were very kind and understanding but the kid kept staring daggers at me for the rest of their meal. Their beers were definitely on the house that day.

Know what establishment you are walking into. We are a brewery, beer is what we make money off of. you don't walk into Olive Garden and get pissed when they don;t have enchiladas, so don't walk into a BREWERY and make a scene when we don't have the wine you want

NEVER DO THIS TO A BUISINESS! we are located next to a nice hotel and they wanted space on the fly for 150 people after their convention. The only thing that made this work was that they were ready to drop several hundred dollars to rent space and we ended up giving them the patio, but our staff was absolutely not prepared for this and it was horrible to just drop in and expect service like that.

The brewery I work at specializes in German style brewing. They made a dopple bock and a triple bock and for the release the general manger decided to hire a group to do a tapping ceremony with a beer blessing. These guys showed up in dark robes with goat masks and the ceremony was very much suggestive of a satanic ritual complete with their own modified version of the lords prayer. It was really cool but definitely freaked out some of the customers

some of the bombers brought in were rare and over $100. we all got pretty sauced that night and tried some awesome brews from all over the country

Like I said I work right next to a nice convention hotel. On the same weekend that RAGBRI was passing through our area, a huge regional anime convention was also booked at the hotel. Talk about a weird clash of cultures

We use space back in the actual brewery for reserved parties. I was helping move tables around when I accidentally whacked a table into a tank and a pipe started spewing water. My manager told the owner he did it just in case it was a super expensive fix because he was in a better place to deal with that than me. Good guy

I'm less familiar with the chemistry than one of our real brewers, but all I know is a batch of our hefeweizen got tainted and went sour. The brewery couldn't sell it and just gave the packaged bottles to the staff to take home, it was awesome.

For birthdays at the brewery we will give you a fill on one of our Boots of beer on the house. It's 104 ounces of beer and I watched this guy take it down by himself in under a half hour. when I made a comment about how fast that was he looked at me like I was a pussy