Another Year Another 12 Months Of Fun? 
Here we are at the dawn of a new decade - the festivities on the island are in full swing and nyet we know that just arround the corner the long haul of winter is waiting to snare our happy spirits and sink us into the gloom of dark days, nothing much happening and non stop gales. But heyho - we've a brewery, lots of stock and time on our hands - - I see a way forward.

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Picture Please 
Two sycophantic brewery workers leapt to the stage when Karen Matheson said her band was feeling a little parched. A lady came up to the bar later and said she had a grood picture opf the crawlers at work......Madam - please send it to info@co.......you know the rest (spam protection)

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Festival Marred By Massive Theft 
A tale of two nights:

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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Fabulous Fesitval Fun 
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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Well Ok - Just A Little Fib 
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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