{"id":1540,"date":"2013-04-11T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2013-04-11T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:03:45","slug":"volunteering_at_jester_king_day_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering at Jester King day #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-20130411_124824.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-20130411_124824s.jpg\" alt=\"Bottling at Jester King\"><\/img><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nToday, I volunteered to help bottle beer for <a href=\"http:\/\/jesterkingbrewery.com\/\">Jester King<\/a>. I had a fun time!\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nMy job, when I was not drinking beer, was to load 750ml bottles onto the washing machine. It kept me pretty busy. I went through a ten foot high palette of bottles and a half of another one. I got lucky with this day. We started at 10am and worked until 4pm. Which was a half day. We only bottled half of one of their fermenters\/bright tank. I&#8217;ve heard stories about going until 3 or 4 in the morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe machine you see in the immediate background is the bottle washer. And the operation is simple. There are two zones.  When you fill a section with upturned bottles, you turn the valve on for a minute to let the sanitizer spray the insides of the bottles clean.  I just had to keep pace with the guy grabbing bottles for the bottler.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe bottling machine pumped beer out of the bright tank and into one of six bottles. Each bottle had an overflow valve at the top which let out air and a little bit of beer. Which drained off into a nearby drain.  There had to be like six dogs running around the brewery. And I was surprised that none of them drank the run off beer from the bottling machine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter we were done, we hung out and drank free beer from their taps and deep fried a turkey for dinner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd I came home with a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/jesterkingbrewery.com\/beers\/#beers_184\">Noble King Hoppy Farmhouse Ale<\/a> for my effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I volunteered to help bottle beer for Jester King. I had a fun time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}