How to your Keg beer Green
It's 8 a.m. on the morning before St. Patrick's Day, and a gray-haired
man stands inside a massive, cleanly scrubbed warehouse on the
southern edge of Pontiac.
He hovers over a keg of beer, hands in latex gloves, dressed in
stained jeans and a grubby blue Budweiser jacket.
He unseals the keg, screws a hand pump into the top of the barrel,
pours 2 ounces of green food dye down the pump's tube. The pump is
depressed to inject the dye into the beer. The pump is then unscrewed
and the keg is resealed.
It's a process he has repeated 70 times over the course of a week.
Yes, it's true. There is a man whose job it is to make the beer green
for St. Patrick's Day. And that man is Don Watkins.
For 10 years, it has been Watkins' job to dye Hubert Distributors'
kegs of Budweiser and Bud Light lime green. His handiwork means
taverns and restaurants throughout Oakland County will have green suds
today.
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