Neither we have. This let to a chat about how we actually find out if we have made a sale online. Four heads well and truly scratched so after a few minutes of specualtion the boss say he will investiagte. Despite a hard days bottling the boss is on the case and logs on to PayPal, our favoured e business partner, and discovers, hey presto, there are sales. Quite a lot of them in fact and dating back quite a few weeks. So it transpires the paypal account has been forwarding orders to an email address which does not seem to be working properly. So apologies to our e buyers - your beer is on the way to the Regional Distribution Hub on the mainland from where it will be dispatched early next week. Lets hope it wasn't for father's day gifts. STOP PRESS - one of them, at least, was - We are very sorry.
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Not a dilemma at all. A well run business with clear objectives means a sensible decision making process is inevitable. So it was this afternoon the four directors of the IOCBC sat down to decide whether to expend the capaicty of the brewery. Yes was the resounding conclusion. Maybe was the echoing afterthought.
So in a compromise arrangement it was decided to look at the availability of fermenting vessels and see if one can be installed quickly to allow increased production, especially of lager, in time for the height of the summer season which is basically now.
I rather think new capacity will be installed before July. This would not be the view of all of the directors of the IOCBC - where's Alan Sugar when you need him.
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It was our second Glasgow farmers market on Saturday ( thanks Shirley and Happy Birthday) and again there was no lager. Sales on the island are such that there is little to spare for the outside world. So we have a meeting tomorrow and on the agenda will be - expansion. To maintain supplies we are really going to need more fermenting capacity. More capacity means more brewing which means more bottling which threatens a further erosion of a quiet life on a wee Hebdridean Island. So it will be interesting to see tomorrow how the decision making process goes. So less than three months on a bigger brewery could be on the cards. Or a revision of out plans. However the later may be difficult as there is no plan.
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Its hard this advertising business. Great idea ......get a Colonsay Lager fan in a remote place - get a photograph and come up with a snappy caption. Colonsay lager - reaches the parts other lagers can't get to
Dash it. Someones already done that I'm told. Never mind - thanks to intrepid hillwalkers Crawford and Mike for supplying the photograph. Pictures of Colonsay beers in unusual places welcome.
For the record Mike is at the top of Ben somewhere or other.
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Just warmed to the idea of the last blog prize offer.
See if you can attribute this one correctly and win a bottle of yesterday's IPA.
"Its non stop sunshine for the second day running and I've been stuck in the brewery all day for two days bottling."
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