packaging beer and scraping reviews

I spent my morning helping a friend with his nomad brewing project, which was a nice break from my computer screen but threatened to ruin my routine. It was my first time filling and capping bottles, and capping kegs. People think brewing beer is a highly creative craft, but the actual work is mostly boring. Brewing itself is just cleaning and waiting, and even packaging is a repetitive sequence of wearing gloves, spraying chemicals, and closing caps. After we finished, we had a couple of beers to celebrate. I ended up tipsy, and I wanted to keep drinking. If I had stayed, the night would have turned into a complete write-off.

What saved me from a drinking bender was my eight-year-old chihuahua waiting at home. He had been inside for eight hours without a walk, so I had to leave the brewery. Walking him got me out of the tavern environment and cleared my head. Despite the distraction, I did manage to write some code today. I built a small script that scrapes, translates, and processes Untappd reviews for a specific brewery. It is a simple building block, but I realized how much I like combining real-world beverage businesses with internet ideas. The beverage industry is incredibly competitive and difficult, but studying it has made me think about new software tools I can build to improve it.

Tomorrow, I will stick to my coding routine without any midday physical distractions. I need to take the feedback scraper I built today and start turning it into a structured system.