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Week 10

It has been such a lovely week and wonderful experience to intern at Elliott Bay brewing Company. As I write this, I have a weird feeling, knowing that I will not be posting to their socials today. It has become such a habit (and a habit I enjoy)! I woke up this morning and checked all of the notifications on Instagram and Facebook, before remembering that they are no longer my responsibility. I will have to get used to the lack of social media responsibility, but I’ll soon be gearing up to start my new internships and I ca not wait!

I finished up week 10 by posting one final employee spotlight on the amazing Travis. Travis used to run socials before I came along and I wonder what he will do with them now that I have left. I went around to all three pubs and to Brother Barrel and took as many photos as I could, did a lot of photo editing/organization/filing/uploading to SharePoint. (I hope that the employees at EBBC can easily find whatever photos they may need.) I am working on an exit memo, which includes tips, things I have learned, a market analysis comparing week 1 to week 10, and instructions on how to keep up the Instagram theme if they so choose. I will attach the document to this post when I have finished it. All that is left to do after my exit memo, is to write my academic statement. This task is daunting and overwhelming, but I want to end the quarter strong!

Thank you to Sarah for being such a kind and helpful sponsor, to Doug for being my go-to, to Adam for keeping my on my toes, and to Travis for giving great advice and being so helpful. To Todd and Brent, you have started an amazing community and I am so blessed to have been a part of it for the past few months! Cheers everyone! Happy Holidays!

Final Presentation

Revised Self Evaluation

EBBC Exit Memo

Week 8

On Saturday, November 10, I attended the Barrel Aged Invitational at Brother Barrel. It was awesome seeing the event come together. I helped with marketing for the event across all socials, was there for set up, and took photos of the event during. I also wrapped everything up with posts and photos the following day! I had a great time tasting barrel aged and sour beers from Elliott Bay and from favorite local breweries chosen to be in attendance by the brewers themselves.

Breakside Brews #MoreFriends #MoreMemories (made with 1 lb of fresh raspberries per gallon) was my favorite taste of the day. The highlight of the event, however, was the people I met. One man in particular, David, who goes by the name drosspoet as a writer, stands out. We chatted for quite a while about journaling, poetry, publishing, future goals, and I’m currently halfway through his first book of poems, which I purchased the day following the event. Some may find it surprising due to my outgoing and strong personality, but networking (talking to new people in general) is something that has always frightened me.  I am coming to learn that in order to network with the right people, I should just be myself.

It was also fantastic to talk to Sarah outside of Evergreen and do a site visit. Thank you Sarah for coming to visit! I hope you enjoyed yourself.

As for the rest of the week, I spent quite a bit of time outside of the pubs, doing administrative work in preparation for the end of the internship and the holidays. I am a huge planner, and I want to make sure that I have enough content to post every day over break. I also went to both West Seattle and Lake City pubs to take food photos.

The biggest thing I accomplished in terms of administrative work was typing out the rest of the interviews for employee spotlights. The process of creating employee spotlights has been much more drawn out than I had originally anticipated. I spent a week or 2 traveling back and forth between the 3 locations, interviewing staff based on their varying availabilities. I recorded the interviews instead of taking handwritten notes, because I wanted to make sure I could give my full attention and not miss any of the details. I then had to listen back to the recordings and type out their responses word for word, which was very time consuming, before going back in and editing their responses to be more concise. The hardest part of editing was that I wanted to make sure that every employee’s voice could still be heard. I didn’t want to change the wording, but I also had to shorten some of the answers greatly, or take out sections that may not have been appropriate to share online. Once edited, I send the draft to the employee, have them look over it, and make any changes they advise. Some respond right away saying it looks great, others make a few edits and send it back, and some want to meet in person to read it together and make edits that way. It’s been fun, but I am happy to bring the project to a bit of a close!

In week 9, I hope to reach out to any employees I may still want to interview before the end of the internship. I would also like to take plenty more photos of classic menu items.

Week 7

I don’t know if it’s the change in weather or if I am just a bit off, but this week has been a whirlwind. I am grateful to have a support system at Elliott Bay Brewing Co. that always greets with my smiles and positivity.

A new month means new specials, which means that I’ve had the opportunity to photograph (and taste) lots of yummy new items this week! The goat cheese and herb burger I’ve pasted below is one of the West Seattle specials and D*** it is DELICIOUS. (Goat cheese is my weakness…) I managed to only eat a quarter of the burger and share the rest with the staff, but I’ve been dying to go back and order the full meal to myself.

At Burien, one of the November specials is a jalepeno popper grilled cheese. It is super spicy, but it truly is finger licking good. (Can you tell I’m hungry as I write this?)

On Wednesday, James let me help him brew an organic Alembic Pale Ale. I was not able to stay all day, but it was awesome to help mix the mash and learn a bit of the science behind brewing. I am so happy to be interning in a position where I can learn so much about things I love like food and beer!

I am really bummed that I did to have time to analyze the social report data this week. I have been pushing this task off for WEEKS and never feel like I have the time, but I am promising myself (ePorfolio as my witness), that I will do so next week. It is SO important to create content, but its JUST as important to know which content is doing best with the audience.

Tomorrow is the Barrel Aged Invitational. It sold out (YAY!), and I am hoping that is in-part due to the marketing and content I created around advertising! I hope I get a chance to try a few tastes of the many barrel aged beers and food pairings that are offered.

I am just loving this internship! You can have fun and work a real “adult” job at the same time. Who knew?! Until next week, cheers!