who promptly ordered many cases of beer and just one of lager. Better still the brewery sales executive managed a first for him. He got out of Locketts with a balance of transaction in our favour. Usually he goes in and sells some beer but spoils that by buying a greater quantity of wine.
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Following on from the failed Birmingham sales operation (see below) we have a success to report. Some guy with a specialist beer shop in London has ordered and paid for six cases of Colonsay ales because he wants to feature an unusual ale for a couple of weeks. Also going is beer from our friends at Islay Ales and Oyster Brewery at Easdale
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Would you Adam and Eve it. There is now beer to be had in the brewery. The lager was bottled yesterday and the IPA is being bottled tomorrow which means there is now a full stock of beer for when we next open the shop - tomorrow afternoon.
This plan is near perfect save for one thing. Its going awfully quiet on this island and we are anticipating a quiet day.
Not wishing to labour a point but we seem to have a bit of a business problem here. We have customers and no beer. Then we have beer and no customers.
More work needs to be done to bring this situation into balance.
Talking of balance....at least we don't bank with the Northern Rock.
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We bumped into the nice lady from the Black Isle Brewery and shared with her the heartache of our lager disaster.
Don't worry she said, it doesn't happen all the time but it does happen to the best of us. You are dealing with a living thing and it does go wrong every now and then.
We love Black Isle and nick some of their better ideas (sorry), so its comforting to see even the old established breweries have their own little disasters from time to time.
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A guy phoned up today from the Birmingham German market asking us if we would be sole beer supplier to this years event.
He said he was looking for something completely different with a good marketing angle.
He also said he was anticipating selling up to 2000 pints of draught a day.
Logistics - difficult
Quantity - impossible.
Obviously. So why did it take us five minutes to say NO. It is bonkers. You would love to do it but say you only sold 1000 pints a day for thirty days, that's 30,000 pints in a month with plant that can produce 3,000 roughly every fortnight. One day.
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