I think it’s fair to say the top brewing team imagined their work was done for some months when they cast their eye over the stock of product (big business chat). However Keith being the clever counter that he is has worked out that two thirds of what has been produced so far has been sold. This was not part of the plan.
So again before the rest of the island has stirred, Bob and Chris made their way to the brewery to start all over again. Lager, predicted by us to be the potential slow seller, has all but gone thanks to its great taste and the sunny weather and so lager is being brewed today.
IPA is being bottled tomorrow, and there will have to be more brewing next week. After hundreds of years of laid back peaceful existence Colonsay now has its first stressful enterprise.
We have PR too. After the oban times came the Press and Journal, now the Daily Mail and Mirror. It may be in other papers too but it will be monday before Saturday's papers get here. If you see it anywhere add a comment please (it will save us buying)
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On the road - selling beers and lager. 11 am and Stravaigin becomes our favourite restaurant as the assembled staff and proprietors have a tasting of the three beer types currently produced and give them the thumbs up. An interesting day all round. An order has been delivered to Stravaigin including IPA which they were not too keen on. However across in Patrick and at the Islay Inn the barman reckons the IPA is fantastic. Samples left at a number of discerning outlets and phone calls next week will determine the success or otherwise.
In Edinburgh Cornelius Beer Seller at Easter Road (great shop and a marvellous french bakers next doot) says he's had people asking for it. Must be our Hibbie pals.
He's planning on ordering next week when he has spece on the shelves. Selling beer.....its easier than making it.
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The gentlemen of the press have been beating a telephonic path to the door following the revealation in the island online newspaper the Corncrake of our existence. The Oban Times carried a nice piece, a news agency is sending the story round the nationals tomorrow for Saturday's papers and the P and J are doing it tomorrow.
All this from a few paragraphs in the Corncrake. We did not speak to the corncrake and sustpect we have a mole. A leak inquiry is underway, and a leak is under the mash tun but that's different.
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7 am and nothing on the island is stirring - except in the brewery where work is underway for the historic bottling of the third ale type.
The IPA has reached the peak of its condition, save for the sail to Oban, and bottling is about to commence. Well that's the plan....early start and the beer gets off the island in the skivers car at 12. Leisurely run at it, few cups of tea. The plan however went wrong and whether it’s still the aftermath of the opening or what the bottling did not actually commence until 10. The pier is phoned to warn of a late car - and as the Lord of the Isles stern rope goes onto the mooring bollard a car speeds (with great car local residents) to the pier loaded down with IPA.
On a brewery website written by the brewers you would not expect an unbiased opinion of the beer. But believe me this IPA is fantastic. It’s got a wonderful bitterness that lingers and is reminiscent of nights in pubs twenty years ago.
News spread of the bottling and within hours of the line being washed out the hotel and shop had both ordered.
Tomorrow a presentation is to be made at a number of potential outlets in the central belt, fingers crossed.
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The Hotel telephone in the middle of the opening to ordered a second keg of lager the first having been all but finished in one night. Bloody hell we'll have to brew some more. The delivery will be made by the entire company and their wives for we are having dinner to celebrate the launch of the enterprise abd they ain't no way we'll be drinking inferior mainland nonsense.
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