- Due to our society’s growing thirst for high-quality libations, the craft beverage business is booming, which means Daughter is receiving promotions and pay raises. (And benefits. Love those benefits! Always grateful for a job with benefits!)
- Due to our society’s growing thirst for high-quality libations, the craft beverage business is booming, and now Daughter is gaining lots of management experience, so she will probably always be able to get a job in this industry. (Thank you to all of you out there who visit local wineries, breweries, distilleries, and such. You know who you are. Cheers!)
- Daughter gets free tastings when she visits other craft beverage establishments. A professional courtesy, apparently. And some of these fine places even give a free tasting to the person with her, which often happens to be me.
- Going to other craft beverage establishments with Daughter takes on a whole new layer of enjoyment, since her ever-sensitive palate allows her to point out new flavors to me. (OK, I admit, it always tastes even better when it’s free of charge.)
- Daughter, by necessity, now holds an ABC license, so she tacitly keepsher parents her father in check.
- She meets lovely customers every day, whether she is giving them a tour or pouring them a tasting or a full flight. Because, let’s face it, it’s a cidery, and people go there with the intention of getting relaxed and happy. (And the more relaxed and happy they are, the better they tip.)
- Cidery employees get to sample the goods for free. And often get free leftovers from the food trucks.
- Business attire is not required.
- The cidery is only a 75 minute drive from our home, and the cidery is located near museums and breweries and restaurants, so it’s easy to invent an excuse as to why her father and I “just happen” to be in the neighborhood, and “just happen” to be craving cider. Because, you know, we miss our baby girl.
- Daughter knows more about apples than anyone else in the entire family and our circle of friends. And considering how she refused to eat apples through all of middle and high school, this makes me chuckle.
- I can now call her and ask for a recommendation about the best beverage to serve with dinner.
- Instead of yet another scented candle or box of tea or bottle of bubble bath, I now get cider for Mother’s Day and for my birthday. And hopefully, for Christmas, too.
- Cider is delicious.
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