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      • Crisis - what crisis
        03/30/07
        Forget the last entry. Supply chain problems mean the bottling equipment is not coming today. It will be here on Wednesday of next week - or thursday (summer timetable) so its going to be a busy old run up to Easter. But who would start a brewery on a remote Atlantic island is they were not up for a

      • I P A
        03/28/07
        Success - The IPA is brewed - and it all went reasonably well. George reckons better than that. We are now on course to begin bottling when George returns to the Island on Friday. We haven’t told him the summer timetable starts on Friday so when he turns up late for the 12 o'clock boat he will be de

      • The Devils Work
        03/24/07

        Can you believe it? George made it on Friday - and it was the early boat. In fact he was found in Tesco's canteen at 9am complaining that there's not much to do in Oban at eight in the morning having apparently made it to town in the early hours of the morning.

        So work has been do

      • Stop Press
        03/21/07
        The brewery blog is not yet a week old and already we have an employee of the month, step forward Bob the Brewer. Single handedly he shifted 1697 boxes (and counted them) and did not complain once. Here they are, stacked beautifully high up in the brewery. Well done Bob.

      • Just Reward
        03/21/07
        Often in a business relationship one side of the bargain feels the other side may have contributed more to the project that one has oneself. Terms are agreed at the outset but by the conclusion one side feels rather in debt to the other. And so it is with George. We think we should buy him a small g

      • Storm Stops Brewing
        03/19/07


        Today was going to be the historic third brew - IPA - ingredients meticulously prepared, malt ready to be milled Calmac cancel the Monday boat, island deprived of fresh food and newspapers - Colonsay Brewery deprived of consultant brewer George - better known as SUPER GEORGE - the man

      • Its Friday and it can't be long before we get a TGIF Pint
        03/16/07


        Well we had to buy the boxes in bulk to cut the frieght charges and get a decent unit price (as they say in big business) The trouble is now we need a bigger brewery.

        Freight is going to be the big issue here. Everything brought in from the mainland, except water funilly en

      • Welcome to the Colonsay Brewery Blog!
        03/16/07