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      • Licence Problem?
        11/30/07
        The mainland sales executive finds a message on his mobile phone from a lady at the licencing department of East Dunbartonshire Council. Can we phone her urgently. They're shut now for the weekend. Does this mean there is a problem for the Christmas Market licence at Milngavie on Wednesday. Hope not

      • Nervous Wait
        11/30/07
        St Andrew's Day. Nothing from Peckhams. We're getting slightly worried that the lady in charge of buying at Peckhams may have misunderstood our approach and now thinks we're strange island stalkers. We watch the cars coming off the lunchtime ferry with trepidation believing it inevitable that Strath

      • Say It With Flowers
        11/28/07
        I hate to keep banging on but - - - - Being a small brewery with limited output and strained supply lines we have to be careful with the partners we work with. We need probably no more than 20 or so mainland outlets at this stage in our development. These along with the markets will keep things tick

      • Sign of the Times
        11/27/07
        When we started our little brewery here in the Hebrides we ordered all the bottle labels we could afford which meant the unit cost of them was fairly large. No economy of scale. Cash flow dictated. Now we are confident of surviving at least another year we have decided to order a decent quantity - p

      • What's Your Address
        11/26/07
        We have finally got approval from the relevant bodies for our label. Behind the simple sentence lies a laugh or two. The main one being that food and drink labels have to have the address of the manufacturer or seller. The council thought we should have our full address: Isle of Colonsay Bre

      • Keep Pecking Away
        11/24/07
        Its a bit quiet these days down the brewery shop. In fact opening hours have been reduced to just a lunchtime a week and if anyone wants beer outside of that you just have to phone. There's a steady trickle of internet sales but the truth has to be faced that after months of struggling to keep up wi

      • Spin
        11/14/07
        Our head of sales used to work in the media and this week went to see some old pals who have a pr business. The idea being they would give a favourable rate (a couple of bottles) for some PR help. It seems they had a few cups of coffee and chatted about days gone by and not much else. So much for al

      • Christmas is Coming
        11/10/07
        At the request of one of the other stallholders - a beef farmer from Renfrewshire - the Colonsay Brewery will be at the Milngavie Farmers Christmas Market on Wednesday December 5 - makes sense to lump that in with the Glasgow market on the 8th - two markets for one ferry fare, that must be very fair

      • Wet Day but Warm Heart
        11/10/07
        Just back from the Glasgow farmer's market. It was mild and cloudy with the ever present threat of rain. However it worked for us. This market is developing well with a large number of people becoming regulars- one guy even came back with his empty Colonsay Brewery Box for a refill - good on you mat

      • Below Continued (I just think people are not attracted to long entries - like letters in The Times)
        11/04/07
        5) Mainland sales are a priority and we hope to make real progress on this pretty quickly.

        Money in the bank - well we are still unsure as to the profitability of the enterprise as the boss is still working on the accounts. Suffice to say, as I suppose with all new businesses, if the brew

      • Gloomy Beginning for New Plans
        11/02/07
        In the gathering darkness of a driech afternoon the directors of the Isle of Colonsay Brewing Company Ltd gathered round the boardroom table to make decisions.
        The table was in fact a kitchen one, but apart from that it’s all fact.
        The meeting marked roughly 6 months since the first brew a

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