Just received our first order from Royal Mile Whiskies, the definition of a malt specialist based -- - - on the Royal Mile.
They're currently opening up some wine/whisky and beer shops called Drinkmonger.
We dropped off samples at one the other day -- they are really smart and have an interesting range of wine displayed by variety.
Skiver claims it was a tough job getting the beer in then requiring multiple meetings and his selling skills tested to the fore.
Almost believed him until discovering the top man is the son of Mike the Colonsay Shop - so perhaps not such a hard sell after all.
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We need new valves for the conditioning tanks. They are late already -- but they are promised faithfully for tomorrow.
Then an email pings in from the pier - Ferry cancelled - adverse weather.
So now it will be saturday. Two days lost. That's islands for you.
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Ok . . Sorry . . .slightly late . .. . . But we can now reveal the identity of our famous visitor. He was in the brewery earlier this year, apparently. We say apparently because we did not see him.
However his newly published book seems to reveal all.
Pa Broon was here.
Indeed not only was the patriarch of Glebe Street in our shop he bought IPA and wrote extensively, and in a most complimentary fashion, in his new guide to Scotland.
Ta Pa
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We laugh at the skiver. There's always an excuse, a pressing appointment, a job needing done - not in the brewery of course. Then every now and then he leaps into life and shows us why it has been so unfair to saddle him with that moniker for all these years.
A cask of the brand new Colonsay Porter was en-route to a beer festival in Englandshire that got cancelled -- so, we challenged him, sell it to a pub.
Not only, within 24 hours, was the deal done but the pub in question is one of the very best - the Nether Abby in North Berwick, East Lothian, haunt of the yuppie classes of that county and a favourite with visiting golfers.
They hope to get it on over the weekend - so pop into the Nethers and have a pint of Colonsay Porter. Better still have four.
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As we were pushing our well thumbed copies of The Sun into the island recycling skip last night we noticed a not too out of date copy of the Lairds' favoured reading Scottish Field - so with an eye to getting a glimpse of the glamorous life of Scotland's aristocracy out it came.
It had an article, September edition, on the delight's of Islay and Mull and a hand drawn map of those two islands included an outline of our our dear landmass.
The Colonsay Map made reference to only two features, the 18th A listed Colonsay House, famed the world over for is magnificent gardens, and the 2007 addition - our brewery. The odd thing was that nowhere in the text, that we could find, is there reference to the finest brewery in the Hebrides.
Talking of such --- we got a great write up following a visit from one of Scotland's most famous sons - more on that tomorrow.
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