We had a fesitval fringe this year - Pede's tent - in which we errected a small bar to help ease the crush of people waiting for the stage to be turned round for the next act.
On Friday night the bar was all laid out and a bowl full of cash was sitting in the middole of the table because we thought the bar person was about to arrive. In the event money and booze sat for ages and all was well. The next night - no cash but we think (think) someone knicked 6 bottles of lager! Like to think not but we are fairly sure. Anyway lets hope they enjoyed it.
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To those of you who know our little island there will be no difficulty in persuading you that it is truly a piece of heaven on earth. This weekend - to keep the metaphor going - we have been serenaded by angels, albeit ones that rather like a drop of the old Whyte and McKay's.
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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