We had one of our all too infrequent board meetings today. The highlight, as we sat in the bright sunshine at Bob's house, was watching his little friendly chaffinch hopping in and out of the conservatory.
In fact so fascinating was the bird no one was paying much attention to the chat - apart from a general feeling of apprehension over propsects for the coming months. Lets face it selling beer that is not cheap in a recession is always going to be difficult. We are activcly considering new plans, see below, but in the medium term there are real challenges.
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Since our brewery idea was first floated we have worked closely with AIE who have been a great support to our fledgling business.
The lady we liase with is coming across soon to see various folk round the island and us - wait till she sees our shopping list!
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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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