We suppose it was inevitable. Chris and Sheena go off to Skye "to se how its done properly" and come back with a shopping list as long as your arm.
Chris has long been in the brewery black books for his inability to drink a pint of any beer without swilling it round in the glass and inspecting it first. Now he has a whole black book chapter to himself for starting every sentence with the words "Angus says" or "at Skye they don't do that they do this....."
But we must say the whole "consultant" experience has been a good one giving us a bit of a shake up and exposing us to a way of thinking that is hard to see working, as we had been doing, in isolation. We are slowly coming to realise that perhaps it is not such a daft place to have a brewery after all.
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Chris and Sheena - heading of brewing and retail - are away up to the Isle of Skye Brewery vthis weekend for round two of our consultant excercise.
Angus MacRuary asked us up for the second installment of "not that way you numpties - this way".
Basically he's offering to show in practice the contents of his recent report. Its been a very good experience and one we are learning a huge ammount from.
There is a chance - just a chance - that a new beer is going to come out of all this. Watch this space - or better still get Google alert to do it for you and save getting bored.
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We've got our own wee tourist board on Colonsay - set up to try and make sure visitors get the best out of the island and enjoy themselves so much they come back.
We're not on the board directly, and anyway were too busy to go to the meeting today. However we have eyes and ears everywhere on this island. Apparently (A word used much on Colonsay to signify that which is about to follow is at best speculative and at worse downright invention) someone notice they were a brewery short of a meeting and asked that omission be dealt with for further gatherings. "After all", said our champion, "the brewery is the jewel is the island's crown".
To be fair we had never thought of ourselves in that way - but now you come to mention it .............
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Brewery wife and school teacher Sheena Nisbet points out that in fact Colonsay has two representitives in the new ConDem Cabinet.
Danny Alexander, or little know Lib Dem MP Danny Alexander as the papers like to call him, went to Kilchattan Primary when his Dad, Dai the Potter lived on Colonsay. The author of this never met Dai the Potter even when he recently came back to do some talks on Gaelic Place Names of Colonsay.
But one island with two Cabinet members - must be good for a little brewery. He is Secretary of State for Scotland - a job rendered more or less redundant under devolution - if he's short of work perhaps he can give us a hand on bottling days.
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The election has of course been exciting for everyone as we see history being made with a coalition government forming for the first time since the war.
However here at the brewery there is an added dimension to the excitement. We have a Colonsay Beer drinker in the cabinet.
New Schools Secretary Michael Gove, a frequent holiday visitor to the island, marks his arrival in these parts with a visit to the brewery shop to stock up on IPA we seem to think is his usual tipple.
Let’s hope now his feet are under the table of power he won't feel too important to come to Colonsay for his holidays. More importantly as schools secretary we think he should introduce a sensible drinking campaign to England’s children (devolved powers) and supply all schools with Colonsay beers to let the young learn moderation.
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