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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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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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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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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Bob tghe brewer's not a man to fly off the handle. He's calm and patient even under the pressure of hitting a strike temperature. So imagine the brewery horror when from the office we hear lots of banging and crashing and unbloggable language.
Bob had been phoning through a malt order to our top of the range supplier and casually inquired as to the price. It has DOUBLED in the past few months.
As the graph shows grain is a hot commodity - we may have to phone the boss on his holidays - no stuff that - we know what were doing. This is a serious problem though for sooner or later we will have to pass on the price hike. It will have to wait for now.
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