Posh Malt 
Saturday, January 26, 2008, 12:09 AM
Chris was over on the mainland picking up the new lager fermenter when he had a happy and perhaps important encounter. George (remember him)
had it delivered to his pals farm in East Lothian for safe keeping. Guess what. His pal has just installed an on farm malting kiln to produce top qaulity malt from locally grown barley. Never one to let the grass grow under his feet four bags of optic malt were bought and are to be used in our next brew.
It will no doubt start us thinking - buy a malting device, persuade the likes of Seamus to grow barley and colonsay beers could be made with Colonsay Malt. Not yet awhile.

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Bloody January Again 
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 01:05 PM
The headline from Flanders and Swann - OK it's an age thing.
Lesson no. 37 in running an island brewery. January is dead.
Great Burns Nights in the Hotel but apart from that island beers sales are slim and mainland ones useless.
A line from one of our outlets, "we've only sold four bottles of beer since the holidays - but two of them were yours."
Lets hope February is better.

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IPA Away 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 04:48 PM
The IPA shortage is officially coming to an end. Bottling is taking place tomorrow and IPA heading for the mainland on Monday, Calmac willing.
Bob and Chris reckon its fantastic.





(They always do)

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Black Mark for Black Isle 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 04:44 PM
Away from Peckhams and we spoke to another independent outlet who has just been told that a well known brewery that I perhaps should not name has told them they can no longer be supplied because they have just got into Tesco and most product will be going there and M%S.
That's an interesting debate to be had. Should we be pleased that there are likely to be more openings for small scale hand produced local beers like ours - or should we be jealous of a small producer, no doubt like us at one time, that's hit it big and becoming a big brewery (relatively speaking)?

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Glasgow 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 04:43 PM
And so it came to pass the mainland sales executive went to Glasgow - and again the chat was good.
Byres road reported strong sales - Glassford street has a Colonsay McNeil managing the shop so no proglem there - and the boss of the drinks store in Hyndland is the man who picked the beer for the shelves in the first place.


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