It has been four days of the best ever music with the likes of Ali Bain and Phil Cunningham - Karen Matheson and Donald Shaw - Kris Drever, John McCusker and a fantastic harmonica player -- plus for us the band of the weekend Breabach - You Tube them.
It’s a great weekend for us particularly because we get instant feedback for our product from the customers direct. Not wishing to sound big headed but to say the stuff goes down well is an understatement.
Even better its very satisfying to stand at the pier shed on Sunday night as they all depart off into the gloom onto LoTi and recognise them going as "pint of 80/- and a nip please" and our very favourites - the group of girls that were buying 7 pints of IPA at a time. Why were there no girls like that when we were young?
Here are Breabach (two pints of IPA and two 80/- please - certainly sir no charge).
This year none of us woke after nightmares of all night parties or bar lock ins -- we must be getting old.
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Yes I know - there was no fire - everything is as normal. We just needed a good excuse to cover the lengthy bloggers block.
Actually things have been going just Dandy --- to save you ploughing through acres of blogs let us give it to you in easilly digestable form.
1) Brewery sales - 15% ahead of last year
2) Ten day outage due to electrical fault cured - production catching up
3) New distribution network - sending beer to the fabulous Oyster Bar at Easdale via Sea.fari who have been going regular runs to Colonsay.
4) working like stink to get ready for the festival which starts tomorrow.
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This week we finally got back into production after our devastating brewery fire. It took the local fire brigade many hours to bring the blaze under control - but not before it destroyed our producation capacity and computer systems.
It's been all hands to the grindstone (what ed?) to get things going again...but we have.
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It is a disgrace that for over a month the brewery blog has been unblogged and across cyberspace people are tearfully staring at their screens hoping for news from their favourite brewery.
Its that time of year - we are brewing at full capacity now - we are firming up on a third draught account (details still under wraps) and the hotel and Port Charlotte going like fairs mean that the island brewers have been rudely awoken from their usual slumbers.
More news soon....must go and add the hops.
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Well may you take a second look at the headline. We have had a number of celebrity bottlers over the last couple of years but Joanna ---- in the shop!
There is a story in the Times today saying some crofting guy in Oban says Ghurkas wanting to settle in Britain should be given highland and island crofts. The story is beefed up with our own crofting supremo Pede saying there are vacant crofts and Ghurkas would be most welcome.
So its only a step before the Ghurkas move to Colonsay - Joanna comnes to visit and does a shift or two in the shop.
A less reputable news outlet than the blog, or indeed the Times, would justify the headline with an anonymous quote like: An islander said: "We saw a people carrier with blackout windows waiting outsaide the brewery shop and there was a blonde woman in it."
(must be short of blog material again....ed)
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