Made the first delivery to the Lade Inn Scottish Beer Shop near Callender. What a place. It has, now, literally every beer brewed in Scotland by the independent sector. It was a bit of a nightmare as our beer sale turned into a bit of a cash negative beer swap. We found beers we had heard of but never seen let alone tasted aplenty.
So there's going to have to be another brewery research evening. Its a bad as going to Peckhams. When we were going round the branches telling the key folk about the beer, and island, when they first started stocking it, it ended up costing us a fortune. Anyone living close to a Peckhams is pretty lucky. Anyone living close to the Lade Inn better like beer.
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Not earth shattering ... just an indication of how the brewery puts Colonsay on the map a little more than it might be without it. Someone, who knows Colonsay, gave a mini keg of IPA to someone who knows Colonsay a little.....who gave it to someone who doesn't know Colonsay. Come on keep up
So the guy who doesn't know Colonsay drank it with two friends and reported back along the chain in these terms:
Dear Adam, Just a short note to say how much I appreciated your gift of Hebridean IPA. I took it to friends and decided to taste, and assess it, with two experienced "brown" beer drinkers. The first was Iain (78 yrs), then Adrian (68 yrs) and of course, the baby, me at a very young 64 yrs. That of course is age, and not the number of years we had been drinking brown beer.
At a suitable apres boating session I opened it, with a certain amount of temerity, but all went well, and by the time we finished it they were raving about it. Well, they certainly were raving, but I am not sure about what!.
We collectively decided it was a very acceptable, palatable, and tasty beer.
All I can say is thank you very much, and that three old men are thinking about moving to Colonsay.
Kind regards, Derick.
Little things that make an Island brewer a happy brewer.
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I do not know why we started capitalising every word in the headings its a pain, but now we have we have to keep going for reasons of style.......style...colonsay brewery blog.....that's a laugh.
Anyway. Cornelius - James in Easter Road first cold call success for the brewery - phoned with a large lager order for a chap getting married who loves the lager and wants it at his nuptuals --- good choice sir. Lager delivered tomorrow.
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Our head of sales received a message to call the Scotgtih Real Ale Shop at the Lade Inn near Callender. He did within 24 hours of receiving the message. The chap there says no I didn't call you.....no wait a minute I did....months ago...we want to stock your beer. So it will be delivered tomorrow, sorry. At least its in time for the summer season. The stupid thing is we drive right past the place every few weeks and never went in thinking they would only sell bottle conditioned not bright beer like ours but in fact they like to sell as many Scottish beers as possible. It just shows - you only have to ask.
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Calm down - not that sort of thing. We were looking for an online picture of Colonsay's bottling of Bruichladdich Whisky - it’s a long and not very interesting story. Anyway - Googled Colonsay and Whisky and up popped some whisky blog with this entry -
I know I can here you say this is supposed to be a whisky blog and your blogging on about bloody beer again! Well who cares it's my blog and I will write what I want! Anyway had to tell you about this 80 Shilling from the Colonsay Brewery. This is one of the best beers I have had in a long time rich full flavoured with a creamish finish! Not sure if I can find the smoke they are talking about on there website but then again maybe it's there or maybe I am just looking for it - never feer I will be drinking this alot I imagine so no worries about me checking it out again in the future.
Also being on their site you see a lot of tongue in cheek humour coming through which I feel is there because the guys who put it there are funny and it's not just marketing bollocks. Make sure you look up their business plan under the brewery section. Priceless!
Anyway there is an IPA and a lager to try so there will be more on here.
A must try!
I still can't make it a click through link so you would have to cut and paste it to get to the right place. Incompetent or what.
You can see it yourself at:
http://malthead.blogspot.com/2008/02/co ... ottle.html
We are just slightly miffed the giy seems to think our businessplan is a joke. Must have been talking to our bank manager.
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