Well now, a thread about beer
I'm a Brit from the North. My first pay packet was from a vacation job during my Univ first year summer as a 'kegger' at Sam Smiths brewery in Tadcaster.
Not real ale - that was back in the early 70s when ale was being replaced by lager. My job was to wear heatproof apron and gloves, accept hot kegs out of the steam steriliser down the roller line, scrape off the previous label, turn them over and push them down the line, just in time to receive the next one.
Kegs weighed about 30 kilos empty. Atmosphere was steamy. Kegs were too hot to touch without the gloves. Working day was 7.00 am to 6.30 pm.
A chilled keg was on call for the work crew. Work crew wore a pint glass on a thread round the neck, like a librarian's spectacles.
"Hey Young'un, you dry?" "Aye, when you're ready" - and a pressurised squirt from a hundred yards or so to be caught in the neck attached glass
I wonder if it's still the same in these more austere days
Oh and, bike related - I commuted there on a Lambretta because it was too far for my Dawes Galaxy!!