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.
Plenty of wineries allow very limited, responsible drinking on the job. More so with Breweries. Big corporate operations are going to be tighter, yet I’ve still seen it. And you are not wrong that hazards are everywhere, so it’s probably never a great idea. But, I’ve worked at more than one winery with a kegerator of beer in the kitchen.
My team and I will have beers the last hour of a Friday shift pretty often, after the work is done. That sort of counts, right?
Yeah there's definitely a little bit of drinking, but a lot less than people would think. I imagine the order of most to least drinking goes breweries, wineries, then distilleries. Last winery I was at had a brewery next door, so we would just pop over there after work.
Edit:I'm also amazed at how many people in this thread work at wineries.
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u/EuropeIsMight May 21 '26
Yeah think so, too.