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      • Time for a Pint
        03/23/12
        The Colonsay Hotel is now reopen full time for the summer season -- so guess where we are headed tonight. This week has had a good feel to it -- new customers found, old customers ordering and our island watering hole reopened.
        Royal Miles Whiskies, which also owns the expanding Drinkmonger Ch

      • Success
        03/20/12
        How flash is that - the pallets were uplifted - transported - and delivered to the right places at the right times.
        I know that this is not the cutting edge of logistics but a real milestone for a wee brewery that has largely been operating out of the back of family vehicles and the local carri

      • On The Up
        03/16/12
        Brewery history made today when TWO PALLETS of beer were sent out to customers -- this was the first of our mainland distribution and was all done by fax from the brewery. Some chance of it arriving at its destinations

      • cloisters Success
        03/07/12
        Success up to a point. The Cloisters took two casks of IPA - loved them and sold them. Now one of the casks is missing. Not a fantstically profitable deal then.
        However its a great bar, on Brougham Street in Edinburgh -- good beers and good food. Kind of like pubs used to be, without the smoke.

      • Lochaber Some More
        03/07/12
        We spent yesterday at Fort William at the Forteith Foodservice show where producers big and small showcase their wares and take orders from the trade for the coming season.
        We had a great day -- took lots of real orders - but better still found there to be real interest and enthusiasm for our b

      • Huge Mystery On Beer Island Solved
        03/07/12
        Over the years we have had many excuses for our lapses in blogging. Drunkenness, idleness, lack of interest,lack of material - they've all played a part.
        Now we have the best ever. We lost the password. We thought the password was Scalasaig - the name of the capital city of our island. In fact

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