Actually things have been going just Dandy --- to save you ploughing through acres of blogs let us give it to you in easilly digestable form.
1) Brewery sales - 15% ahead of last year
2) Ten day outage due to electrical fault cured - production catching up
3) New distribution network - sending beer to the fabulous Oyster Bar at Easdale via Sea.fari who have been going regular runs to Colonsay.
4) working like stink to get ready for the festival which starts tomorrow.
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This week we finally got back into production after our devastating brewery fire. It took the local fire brigade many hours to bring the blaze under control - but not before it destroyed our producation capacity and computer systems.
It's been all hands to the grindstone (what ed?) to get things going again...but we have.
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It is a disgrace that for over a month the brewery blog has been unblogged and across cyberspace people are tearfully staring at their screens hoping for news from their favourite brewery.
Its that time of year - we are brewing at full capacity now - we are firming up on a third draught account (details still under wraps) and the hotel and Port Charlotte going like fairs mean that the island brewers have been rudely awoken from their usual slumbers.
More news soon....must go and add the hops.
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Well may you take a second look at the headline. We have had a number of celebrity bottlers over the last couple of years but Joanna ---- in the shop!
There is a story in the Times today saying some crofting guy in Oban says Ghurkas wanting to settle in Britain should be given highland and island crofts. The story is beefed up with our own crofting supremo Pede saying there are vacant crofts and Ghurkas would be most welcome.
So its only a step before the Ghurkas move to Colonsay - Joanna comnes to visit and does a shift or two in the shop.
A less reputable news outlet than the blog, or indeed the Times, would justify the headline with an anonymous quote like: An islander said: "We saw a people carrier with blackout windows waiting outsaide the brewery shop and there was a blonde woman in it."
(must be short of blog material again....ed)
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For the first time ever all four directors of the brewery are off the island at the same time leaving the only male child of drinking age in charge of the brewery. What a chance for a young guy - - -the keys for his very own brewery. Suffice to say the standard of service at the brewery has actually increased over the weekend to the extent that one customer anxious to get a couple of kegs of IPA actually sent a fast rib to Colonsay meaning the youth with the key had to come down at 10 o'clock on Friday night and hump the kegs to the slip --- or as we say in the brewery Keir took the Beer to the Pier. It amuses us.
The directors have travelled far and wide and in keeping with the class distinctions that so troubled Karl Marx all those years ago there is a divergence in destination of the quartet. The managing director is living it up in the palatial surroundings of a luxury hotel in the Italian lakes - the rest of us are staying in cheap accommodation on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Come the revolution.
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