Amongst today's deliveries was lager to the Atrium - the posh Edinburgh restaurant with the tasteful customers who like a drop of Colonsay's finest. The restaurant is in the middle of a huge modern biuilding housing a threatre, a bar and lots and lots of prestige offices. So one little bit of the Atrium has been cordened off 8am-2pm I think and used to sell rolls and coffees. To copy M and S not just any rolls...but Atrium Rolls. So first delivery of the day was finished off with the best bacon roll and coffee you could imagine. The next delivery was almost a disatser. The shop wasn't open for business though the door was unlocked so when we went in the poor guy who own's it thought it was a raid and looked very shaky for a while. At least there's plenty on hand to calm him down.
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Pride, as we all know, comes before a fall. There we were boasting of our professionalism in the palletisation of the Peckhams Order and guess what - they screwed it up.
No names, brewery individuals refered to only as B and C were so busy with their shrink wrap and pallets they appeared to have lost the ability to count.
12 cases if IPA is what was ordered 13 is what was delivered. Come on boys its easy 12 is the one between 11 and 13. We obviously need the man with the calculator and sharpened pencil down on dispatch days to check the counting. The good news is the nice lady at Peckhams says she'll pay for it anyway.
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What a laugh. Every time we phone in Peckhams to book our delivery in the nice lady always says: "How many pallets?" and we, rather sheepishly reply none - just 60 cases or whatever. This week however we have hit the big time. Our beer is going on a pallet. Chris and Bob piled it all up and shrink wrapped it. How posh is that. I bet when we book the order in the nice lady will be so used to us not having any pallets she won't even ask - then we'll have to go all macho and say .....by the way, for that's how they talk in Glasgow - we've got a pallet.
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IPA all day yesterday - Lager all day today. Its all bottles nearly because the seasonal keg market is down - obviously. Bob Chris and Ross sustained by a supply of top notch rolls and soup from Mel and Sheena bottle hundreds and bloody hundreds of bottles. It really is quite the dullest job in the world. In the early days it was quite fun with a bit of banter and a few laughs - now Bob has told his joke there is hardly a human sound to be heard. The most exciting it got was a rather low pitch cheer from Ross when he heard St Mirren had beaten Celtic.
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While many islanders and friends are warming up for the Colonsay Gathering in Glasgow tonight here at the brewery its none stop.
The IPA was bottled yesterday but now its the lager and the job of boxing up the orders. On Monday's boat Chris is heading to Edinburgh with deliveries and Bob is off to Glasgow. Lets hope it doesn't snow again.
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