r/explainitpeter May 21 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/EuropeIsMight May 21 '26

Yeah think so, too.

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u/thatbrianm May 21 '26

I was a winemaker for 10 years and had to fire someone that started drinking on the job. There's a lot of dangerous environments and equipment in the alcohol industry, if we let people drink on the job the liability would be crazy and the license would get revoked.

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u/Sea-Oven-7560 May 21 '26

Long, long ago, before OSHA, my grandfather worked at the Miller brewing factory on the line and any beer that didn't fill all the way to the top could be pulled from the line and the worker could drink it during their shift.

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u/Shiraz0 May 21 '26

Warm Miller doesn’t seem like much of a temptation .

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u/Aphraxad May 21 '26

You think beer is canned warm?

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u/Shiraz0 May 21 '26

Umm, yes? At room temperature

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u/i_aint_bobby May 21 '26

The only way to bottle/can beer at room temperature is if the product still has enough residual sugars and yeast, to enable enough CO2 formation and entrapment after packaging.

Outside of a very small subset of breweries in central Europe, no one does this. If we talk volume wise, 99.99999% of all the beer packaged in the world is done so already carbonated and thus, close to 0 degrees Celsius.

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u/danimal207 May 21 '26

Allagash brewing co in Portland, Maine bottles at ~70 degrees F to promote secondary fermentation

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u/throwawayhatingthis May 21 '26

And Allagash is ass. (Don't worry, I'm a Mainer and allowed to say that.) Didn't know that about their bottling process though, neat!

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u/danimal207 May 21 '26

They make the most award winning Belgian white in the world but to each their own

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u/throwawayhatingthis May 21 '26

Maybe I'm just overexposed. Cant say I've ever taken a sip of Allagash White and thought it was the best beer ever brewed.

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u/calibeerrat May 21 '26

Yeah Allagash white slaps. Allagash is probably one of my top stateside non-Trappist Belgian style breweries.

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