Busy Brewery on Bottling Day

Two tall copper brew kettles rise at the center of a busy brewery floor, connected by pipes and catwalks to fermenting tanks beyond. A conveyor line fills, labels, and crates rows of brown bottles while workers in overalls load and stack full cases nearby. A forklift maneuvers pallets near a wall of stacked oak barrels, and a man slips on a spilled puddle as a dog laps at a spreading pool of beer on the floor. In a glass-walled lab, technicians in white coats examine samples under microscopes and swirl flasks of colored liquid. Near the loading dock, workers wheel crates toward an open delivery truck, while two more hose down a checkered floor tile by tile. At the far end, a curved wooden bar serves foaming pints to a line of customers in flannel and rain jackets. Every station handles its own piece of the same brewing day.