Welcome groovy readers. Thanks for being here.
Another Friday another weekend at Finnriver Farm and Cidery. Today I am working in the label room in the morning and in the afternoon I will be working as host in the Tasting Room.
The jobs in production are more like meditations. Repetitive and calming. The crew usually plays music while they work. There is a camaraderie in the crew that is fun to be a part of. There is a joy in making cider. The work can be repetitive and physically hard but there is always in the back of your head the joy of creating something so fine, so fun.
The tasting room on the other hand requires you to be “on”. You can’t just cruise through the shift. While cleaning bottles for the label machine you can let your mind wander some. In the tasting room you have to be sharp all the time. The customers expect you to be knowledgable and charming.
Charming is not all that tough, most people come to the tasting room with a great attitude and the wonderful ciders of Finnriver melt the hearts of most skeptics. But, one has to keep up to stay with what’s going on at the cidery. We are always creating new ciders and wines. I learn more every day. Yesterday I was pouring buckets of blackberries into the vat for making our Spirited Blackberry Wine. Not very educational by itself but being around the cider maker and listening to him and watching him work is a learning process in itself.
What a great job when you can keep learning new things and spend time with charming people.
Never mix red wine with Oodo, but cider is fine.
Earth Year 2014
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