Beer names - obsolete jobs

[hennesse]

Having trouble coming up with a name for your latest brew? Here are some obsolete job titles that you might consider.

Can you suggest a beer style for each one?

Gandy Dancer – Railroad trains slowly push the tracks out of alignment on curves, and teams of gandy dancers with long iron poles would all heave-ho to push them back. Hard work in the hot sun.

Printer's Devil – Printers’ assistants were called “devils” because they got the dirty jobs cleaning up the type and presses and got black ink all over them.

Elevator Operator – There are only a few places in the world which still use them. The job definitely has its “ups and downs”.

Gas Jockey – (not available in NJ or OR). Service station attendants used to fill your tank, wash your windshield, and check your oil. That’s why they called them “service stations”.

Pole Climber – Telephone poles used to have spikes in them so the electric/phone "linemen" could climb them. Now they use bucket trucks.

Lamplighter – Before electricity was common, someone had to light the natural gas streetlights in the evening, and turn them off in the morning.

Fuller Brush Man – If you remember President Eisenhower, you’ll remember the door-to-door Fuller Brush salesman.

Of course, there's also Honest Politician, but nobody's ever been able to brew that one.

Dave

 

[BarefootFriar]

A Powder Monkey was a boy who was responsible for bringing the black powder to the guns on a ship. Once the cannon was loaded, he would take the extra powder back out of the way, so that if there was an explosion it wouldn't all go up at once.

A Grease Monkey is another name for a shade-tree mechanic -- sadly a race that is dying out, mainly due to electronics and extreme specialization in modern cars.

And we can't forget the Ice Man and Milk Man who once delivered ice for ice boxes and milk, respectively. Apparently milk men were real horndogs, because guys seemed to always be accusing their wives of running off with milk men.