We are just worried that this is just a softening up exercise prior to wapping in the expenses claim for 97 pints of kiwi beer.
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We have a new Northern Outpost - just about the poshest whisky shop in Scotland. Duncan Taylor specialise in cask strength, single cask, and rare malts - and now they also stock the entire range of Britain's most exclusive beer.
They have a great website too for whisky enthusiasts:
http://www.dtcscotch.com/
Just be carefull - its a dangerous place for a man with a credit card to go.
Those of you with a good knowledge of Scottish History will have worked out from the headline that the shop is in Huntly.
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Partick Farmers Market not long after the sun has risen and two unlikely lads stumble bleary eyed out of a white van. Looking slightly lost they are seeking shuffling from stall to stall before eventually arriving at the empty one and filling it up with Colonsay Beers.
This is the crack team parachuted into the frontline of the brewery retail operation to accommodate yet another skive by the skiver - apparently pressing business in London.
Step forward island musician and mainland electrician Donald MacAllister and bosses laddie Keir Johnston.
What stars they were too. Sold out of IPA and 80/- and made a massive dent in the lager - well done guys - may be a permanent opening for two bright boys like you.
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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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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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