So it was going to be a long slow day in the brewery shop. Wrong it was about the busiest day we've had since opening.This despite few brave souls braving it from Islay. So perhaps wet days are good days. Can't go to the beach - lets go to the brewery shop. Who knows?
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We've been bottling IPA today - filling kegs and mini kegs - so the sales director was - obviously - having a picnic with friends at Balnahard.
The bottling went well - the IPA has turned out pretty fine again...anyway for a non brewery moment.......on the way back from the picnic they came across a pod of dolphins - one of which did a spectacular jump just in front of Glassard -- and the skiver's pal managed to work out how to put it on You tube - and here it is:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4xdAUytDyM4
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Saturday evening - feet up - contemplating the Ceilidh - and ping the brewery inbox splutters into life. Its another order from Calmac for Loti - the third in a week, and much bigger than the first two. Good heavens perhaps they've started drinking Colonsay beers on other runs Loti does not just to us.
We may soon be getting a call from Viccy wines in Castlebay wanting stock. Chirs and David are on the boat tomorrow - so that's be a fourth order soon. Do you think Victoria wine have a branch in Castlebay? I'll away and look at their website.
I knew they didn't have a Victoria wine on Barra - I just thought it would brighten the blog to have a picture of Kisimul Castle and so went off on this entirely irrelevant tangent.
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Made the first delivery to the Lade Inn Scottish Beer Shop near Callender. What a place. It has, now, literally every beer brewed in Scotland by the independent sector. It was a bit of a nightmare as our beer sale turned into a bit of a cash negative beer swap. We found beers we had heard of but never seen let alone tasted aplenty.
So there's going to have to be another brewery research evening. Its a bad as going to Peckhams. When we were going round the branches telling the key folk about the beer, and island, when they first started stocking it, it ended up costing us a fortune. Anyone living close to a Peckhams is pretty lucky. Anyone living close to the Lade Inn better like beer.
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Not earth shattering ... just an indication of how the brewery puts Colonsay on the map a little more than it might be without it. Someone, who knows Colonsay, gave a mini keg of IPA to someone who knows Colonsay a little.....who gave it to someone who doesn't know Colonsay. Come on keep up
So the guy who doesn't know Colonsay drank it with two friends and reported back along the chain in these terms:
Dear Adam, Just a short note to say how much I appreciated your gift of Hebridean IPA. I took it to friends and decided to taste, and assess it, with two experienced "brown" beer drinkers. The first was Iain (78 yrs), then Adrian (68 yrs) and of course, the baby, me at a very young 64 yrs. That of course is age, and not the number of years we had been drinking brown beer.
At a suitable apres boating session I opened it, with a certain amount of temerity, but all went well, and by the time we finished it they were raving about it. Well, they certainly were raving, but I am not sure about what!.
We collectively decided it was a very acceptable, palatable, and tasty beer.
All I can say is thank you very much, and that three old men are thinking about moving to Colonsay.
Kind regards, Derick.
Little things that make an Island brewer a happy brewer.
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