Black Mark for Black Isle 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 04:44 PM
Away from Peckhams and we spoke to another independent outlet who has just been told that a well known brewery that I perhaps should not name has told them they can no longer be supplied because they have just got into Tesco and most product will be going there and M%S.
That's an interesting debate to be had. Should we be pleased that there are likely to be more openings for small scale hand produced local beers like ours - or should we be jealous of a small producer, no doubt like us at one time, that's hit it big and becoming a big brewery (relatively speaking)?

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Glasgow 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 04:43 PM
And so it came to pass the mainland sales executive went to Glasgow - and again the chat was good.
Byres road reported strong sales - Glassford street has a Colonsay McNeil managing the shop so no proglem there - and the boss of the drinks store in Hyndland is the man who picked the beer for the shelves in the first place.


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Crash Bang ******* 
Friday, January 18, 2008, 02:54 PM
Bob tghe brewer's not a man to fly off the handle. He's calm and patient even under the pressure of hitting a strike temperature. So imagine the brewery horror when from the office we hear lots of banging and crashing and unbloggable language.
Bob had been phoning through a malt order to our top of the range supplier and casually inquired as to the price. It has DOUBLED in the past few months.


As the graph shows grain is a hot commodity - we may have to phone the boss on his holidays - no stuff that - we know what were doing. This is a serious problem though for sooner or later we will have to pass on the price hike. It will have to wait for now.

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Enough to Bring a Tear to a Glass Eye 
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 04:01 PM
We're going round mainland outlets just now with a bit of chat and samples for the staff. Lillian the boss of one of the Peckhams Branches said the beer has really taken off. As soon as she puts it out - away it goes. Peckhams and the Colonsay brewery - it was always going to be a good fit.
Glasgow next week.



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Sad People 
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 09:27 AM
The Google Alert rattles into life sending us a link. Its primed to wake us up at every new mention of the word Colonsay on the world wide web.
So what could it be this time. More airport nonsense, news from the Canadian Colonsay - now some guy (we presume) is elling Colonsay Brewery Beer labels on Ebay.
Good on you mate.
I think you are better off buying a bottle or two and admiring the label whilst recalling the great taste, but I would wouldn't I.
Anyway if you want to bid here's the link

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-Colonsay-Brewer ... dZViewItem

Happy bidding

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