Your company has opened a new production area to make beer. The owner’s son (Harvey Ripple) has developed a revolutionary new brewing technique. This process takes only one day to brew and bottle the beer, then the aging process takes place in the bottle. Harvey expects to make millions, since it tastes as good as beer brewed in the traditional way. They have decided to name the beer after Harvey, naming it HRipple Beer.

The production line consists of two machines, one for mixing and the other for bottling. The basic ingredients are water, barley, and hops. All ingredients are piped into the mixing machine directly and stirred together for 15 minutes. A significant part of the process is the addition of the secret ingredient, which is added to the mixture after it sits for one hour.

Immediately after adding the secret ingredient, the mixture is bottled. The bottling machine can fill 120 bottles each hour, and the bottles are packaged 12 per case. Cases are required to be stored in a dark place for three full days before they can be shipped. This step is vital. Anyone who drinks the brew before it has aged three days gets sick.

Initially, there are only two people working this production line, Harvey and an assistant. They work only one four-hour shift per day. It takes 20 minutes to clean the mixing machine each day before starting a new lot of production.