Boozin’ Blog

What’s the perfect job? Well, for me it has to include beer at some level. More than once I’ve considered working at a brewery because most provide their employees with regular supplies of free beer.

How about a company that provides beer during retirement? Sign me up!

But as quickly as I learn about it the dream dies. I had no idea that one of the benefits of working at Molson was free beer after retirement but at the same time I learned about it I learned that it was no more.

Molson employees and retirees were told recently that the free beer they’ve been enjoying will be drying up soon. Each will receive gradually less beer until 2015 when the company will stop providing the perk altogether.

The retirees are pissed! In fact, they held a public protest outside of the Molson brewery in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I doubt it did much good.

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Victims of the same tragedy often feel a bond even is they don’t know one another. There’s a sort of ‘no one understands me like my brother’ feeling between them.

So it’s understandable that the residents of New Orleans can feel a connection with the residents of Fargo after the flood they recently endured. Even though those from the Mardi Gras capital of the US have hardly anything else in common with those from, well, Fargo they are certainly brothers and sisters in that they both no know what it feels like to watch their neighborhoods go underwater.

Dixie Brewing Company in New Orleans wanted to reach out to their compatriots and so decided to send them all a beer. They’re shipping 24,000 of their beers to Fargo where each resident is being given a ticket for a free beer.

Very cool, Dixie.

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