A microbrewery has many challenges - not least of them is consistency of product. Beer is a natural living thing and the trained palate can spot the odd variance in taste and texture - we certainly can.
Ocasionally amongst ourselves we somehow manage to concentrate on our perceived shortcomings. A knowledgeable peer through the glass, a sniff, a taste and a knowing slight shake of the head is enough to indicate, brewer to brewer, that something is not quite right. It is a slightly anoying habit we have got into but one born of a desire to ensure the drinking public get the best of beer all the time. So - to put the record straight - let us say that the IPA on draught in the hotel for Burns' Night last night was about the best beer you could imagine - not the best we've made - but the best you could get anywhere.
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If the brewery had a computor we might spend endless hours researching new products and markets and contacting potential customers and all that sort of business stuff. The downside of this would be that people may order more beer and we would have to brew it. Its fine in the summer when the brewery doors are wide open and the sun shines in, passing visitors stop to have a chat and occasionally we even get the chance to sit outside in the warm at the end of the day and have a pint in as the sun sets pouring a bucket of red glow over the island of Jura to our East. But really in the winter. No when we have to brew at this time of year its a nightmare of cold, dark and forbidding --- and that's just the brewers.
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Here we are at the dawn of a new decade - the festivities on the island are in full swing and nyet we know that just arround the corner the long haul of winter is waiting to snare our happy spirits and sink us into the gloom of dark days, nothing much happening and non stop gales. But heyho - we've a brewery, lots of stock and time on our hands - - I see a way forward.
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Two sycophantic brewery workers leapt to the stage when Karen Matheson said her band was feeling a little parched. A lady came up to the bar later and said she had a grood picture opf the crawlers at work......Madam - please send it to info@co.......you know the rest (spam protection)
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A tale of two nights:
We had a fesitval fringe this year - Pede's tent - in which we errected a small bar to help ease the crush of people waiting for the stage to be turned round for the next act.
On Friday night the bar was all laid out and a bowl full of cash was sitting in the middole of the table because we thought the bar person was about to arrive. In the event money and booze sat for ages and all was well. The next night - no cash but we think (think) someone knicked 6 bottles of lager! Like to think not but we are fairly sure. Anyway lets hope they enjoyed it.
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