So 8.30 on Saturday finds the sales executive setting up his stall and one or two of the unkindly fellow traders asking who he is. It was just a two month gap fellows give me a chance. So in a day reminiscent of Colonsay, that is to say sunshine, showers, overcast, grey, windy and bright again all in the space of a few hours we have our best market to date. Sales of all three products go very well; customers seem genuinely pleased to see us back. It was what we hoped for at the start - all the signs are that a regular trade is building up. Would you like a taste? was just as often met with no thanks I've had it before and love it, as yes please.
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Chris was over at the weekend and filled up the regional distribution hub hidden away in the Lothian countryside. Mainland sales are up and running. First call of the day was at our friends in North Berwick
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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