Well we emailled the nice lady at Peckhams in a sort of happy new year fancy some beer kind of a way and she didn't reply. She's form for this, just holding out for more roses we concluded but our budget is rather tight (MD off on holiday with key's to petty cash tin in pocket) so we decided to call her bluff.
She emailled back tonight beer selling well - may she have some more please. Fantastic. Music to our ears. What does she want most of IP bloody A - still a week away from being bottled. Biut of island chat, winter storms - cold brew house and she seems quite happy. It won't happen again. If she wants IPA she'll get IPA.
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The great things about the market is there is lots of chat from the other stall holders. Our neighbours Jim and Anne from Ayrshire sell fantastic eggs and the queue snakes past our stall meaning folk buying eggs often buy beer by accident.
Anyway Jim was telling us he recently visited a producer rearing chickens for the supermarket trade and was stunned to be told they received only 3p a bird.
One can only hope the new campaigns by celebrity chefs to wean the nation off cheap chicken works.
Perhaps we could get Jamie Oliver to rant against Tennents in favour of island lager lovingly produced in small batches in remote communities.
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Back at the Partick Farmers Market in Glasgow and what promised to be a rather quiet "no thanks son I'm off the booze for January" sort of a day turns out to be quite the opposite. It is also the first time since July last year that this market has gone its full four hours without any rain.
There seems to be a market law. Whatever you are short of sells the best. Last time the 80/- went a storm and ran out. This time we could float the market in 80/- so what to the customers want - IPA of course. There is now none left on the mainland.
Bags - market man forgot to take bags for the beer...we usually use a pile of them this time no one asked for one so good result there.
Licence. The stall has to be licensed under section 33 of the Licensing Act (Scotland) with the document available for insepction. A slight slip up by us meant we had to ask licensing lady Shiela to help out - she did pulling out all the stops and rushed it to us. Market man left in in the house at 7 this morning meaning we were not licensed. We sold anyway lets hope no one reads this.
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Chris has been to the mainland to fill up the Regional Distribution Hub hidden away in the central belt countryside. As ever though in island life things rarely go as planned. Instead of a quick trip down and back returning today the boat is cancelled because of storms
So he has to stay two nights in Oban to wait for Friday's boat. The board of directors will be meeting in his absence to determine if his pay should be docked for missing work for three days.
Just in case you are worried the picture is nicked off the net - its a famous shot of a former Calmac boat somewhere off New Zealand.
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Well that's hogmanay over - the bottle bank is awash with Colonsay beer bottles so it must have been a good one.
Beer is a living thing - it's just like a person - turns out different depending on how is is brought up.
We we reckon the 80/- Ale that has just been bottled is the best we have prodiced to date. It just seems to be better balanced that we have managed before and its gone straight onto draught at the hotel andn has been going down a treat.
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