I hear ya.
Summer of '69 , right before I went into boot camp, several east coast breweries were on strike and Carling Black Label beer sales skyrocketed, as did other beers. I was hired on the night shift in the brewery just south of Atlanta near the airport @ $3.30 an hour...lots of $$$ back then.
They were in such a frenzy, they never checked my drivers license...I was only 20.
Some days I'd clean the cookers, some days clean the hops room, unload grits (corn, barley, oats blend for the mash) from rail cars or inspect bottles coming out of the Pasteurizer.
Anyway, what ever was on the line that day, whether it be 12 oz. Black Label bottles, cans, Heidelberg Pilsner, or 3.2% beer for military bases and some states (can't remember that far back) there would be a couple of large, refrigerated coolers in the break room filled to the top with it....
you could drink as much as you wanted during two 15 minute breaks or during a 1/2 hour lunch....nobody checked, nobody cared.
I thought I had died and gone to heaven.....in a way, I'm grateful (and lucky, too). Maybe it was just a warm-up so I would know to handle it OK when I'd go on liberty later, on active duty. Who knows?....I'm still here 49 years later!
