• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • About Craft Brewing Business

Craft Brewing Business

Professional Insight, Unfiltered

  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • COVID-19

Watch: Cleveland’s Great Lakes Brewing salutes third shift with new video

February 26, 2020Keith Gribbins

Third shifts don’t get the appreciation they deserve. I worked third shift as basically a janitor in a shady Cincinnati hypermarket called Bigg’s for about a year. My favorite part of the gig? Solitude. It’s the exact same answer given in the video above by Ric Gilliam, plant shift supervisor, who works third shift at Great Lakes Brewing Co. It’s one of a handful of moments that made me smile in this quick two-minute-ish video that honors the Great Lakes Brewing night shift, who help produce beer like Conway’s Irish Ale and Great Lakes IPA for hardworking every men just like them.

Of course, the job doesn’t look all that lonely really. Great Lakes Brewing’s third shift looks like a fun crew.

“I want to say that third shift is not recognized enough,” says Laneil Connell, third shift bottle detail, in the video. “Some people probably don’t think Great Lakes got a third shift. They’re probably like, how they make all that beer? They probably like, first and second shift, but we do have a third shift, and third shift, yeah, we can definitely get down.”

Third shift is always full of characters, and this video is a cool homage to those who work late at the brewery. It also has some nice images of the packaging hall scored to some smooth jazzy beats.

The beer experience: How Harpoon Brewery still creates memories and adventures after 30-plus years of craft brewing
BUD_LIGHT_Can-CBB Crop
Should you be making the next great American-style pale lager?
Social craft brewing: Great Lakes makes one-day shandy inspired by Twitter requests
Crosby Farm TopWire Hop Project 12
Resplendent Oregon hop farm has ultimate beer garden (TopWire Hop Project) reopening April 30 (enjoy some images)

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • Resplendent Oregon hop farm has ultimate beer garden (TopWire Hop Project) reopening April 30 (enjoy some images)
  • This Get Your Drink On app gifts beer money to a phone’s digital wallet, so please send me some
  • New Yuengling limited-edition desert camo Lager cans honor vets and allow drinkers to engage with a Snapchat Yuengling eagle
  • Arryved debuts OpenTab to change the on-premise POS game

Sign up for our newsletter

unsubscribe from list

Most Popular Today

Recent Features

  • Crosby Farm TopWire Hop Project 12Resplendent Oregon hop farm has ultimate beer garden (TopWire Hop Project) reopening April 30 (enjoy some images)
    April 15, 2021
  • Get Your Drink On app people cheers drinksThis Get Your Drink On app gifts beer money to a phone’s digital wallet, so please send me some
    April 15, 2021
  • GEA-InsightPartner-ProduktbildInside the real-time process control of GEA’s InsightPartner software
    April 14, 2021
  • roughhouse brewing cave aged beersCave-aged beer finally excavated by Roughhouse and other beers to know this week
    April 13, 2021
  • Distribution update: 21st Amendment heads to Hawaii, Upland Brewing to Chicago, Ceria Brewing to Texas/Puerto Rico and lots more news
    April 13, 2021
  • CODO Can design backgroundExploring canning trends and the can shortage with CanSource
    April 12, 2021

Footer

  • Email Newsletter Sign Up
  • About Craft Brewing Business
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise on Craft Brewing Business
  • Media Kit Download
  • Privacy and Terms

© 2021 · CBB Media LLC

Continue ...

sponsored by