The manager, Barry, of a new (ish) Edinburgh bar has been tasting the odd bottle of our beer bought from Locketts in North Berwick.
Acting on intelligence received we spome to Barry at the Cloisters Bar and sold him Colonsay IPA in cask, being casked up today for delivery on Saturday.
Talk about a brewery on a roll. The sales director (new proper name) will be looking for a,pay rise. Or even pay!
We'll let you know how we get on. However the Cloisters seems to us to be the perfect balance between a student bar, a tourist bar and a beer lovers bar. What would you call it? Oh yes. A proper pub.
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When we delivered the lager we found the empty porter cask had gone. Picked up by Belhaven Brewery no doubt unaware that it was ours.
So the skiver was dispatched to Belhaven to find the cask. Some chance. We expected to be met with indifference at best, distain more likely.
How wrong can a brewer be? When he turns up looking for one cask amongst possibly 50,000 kegs and casks, the folk at Belhaven could not have been better.
The first to be asked jumped from his seat in a warm dry office and poked about the rain soaked yard and the casks and kegs for the best part of 20 minutes -- and there tucked away out of sight was our cask.
It may be a nuisance to them but its £50 to us---- so thanks guys.
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Our cask of Colonsay Porter went on at the Nethers in North Berwick and was votd a success by their discerning drinkers.
They reckon that Porter is a bit of a niche product, which we agree with, best suited to a bar, probably in Edinburgh, with a reputation ofr said beer style.
However they liked the product, liked the brewery and have bought a keg of Colonsay Lager to try. Now on sale at the Nether Abby.
It should work well there -- they have an excellent restaurant and our low gas high taste lager is great with food - isn't it.
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Just received our first order from Royal Mile Whiskies, the definition of a malt specialist based -- - - on the Royal Mile.
They're currently opening up some wine/whisky and beer shops called Drinkmonger.
We dropped off samples at one the other day -- they are really smart and have an interesting range of wine displayed by variety.
Skiver claims it was a tough job getting the beer in then requiring multiple meetings and his selling skills tested to the fore.
Almost believed him until discovering the top man is the son of Mike the Colonsay Shop - so perhaps not such a hard sell after all.
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We need new valves for the conditioning tanks. They are late already -- but they are promised faithfully for tomorrow.
Then an email pings in from the pier - Ferry cancelled - adverse weather.
So now it will be saturday. Two days lost. That's islands for you.
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