Tarkio: For twenty some years I worked the 3rd Watch on a large west coast cities Police Department.
Our shift ended at 0400 hours (four AM) and by 0430 hours about 3 dozen of us would be at "choir practice" behind the locked gate of a city park with beer in hand watching for the sun to rise and the Harborview nurses (who got off work at 0400 hours as well) to arrive!
Indeed, an early morning beer after a graveyard shift is something to relish - and frankly something I have missed since retiring 24 years ago.
Long live cheap Rainier and Olympia Beers.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy