Are friends Electric?

Hello all.

It’s not unusual to have sudden changes of plan when dealing with small brewers, it’s all part of life’s rich tapestry when you are constantly chasing a small supply with variable demand. But it seems lately that the Gods of Electrickery are against us at every stage. First Red Willow managed to blow up or set fire to their mains supply, and now poor old Off Beat have been struck by spark demons who have savaged their electricity as well. Luckily we managed to grab the last few casks from Michelle before the inevitable shutdown and rewire. Hopefully it’ll all work well for them, and they’ll be back brewing on Monday. This week we have a few of their newest beer, a 6.5% American Brown Ale called ‘Grateful Deaf’ as well as the superb Out of Step IPA and Outlandish Pale. We also have a couple of Oddball Red and Unhinged Ginger for those who get in early.

Whilst on the subject of variable supplies, we were expecting some more beer from Tempest this week, but due to their local demand soaring, we won’t be getting that until next week now. On the other side of the same coin, we will have a more steady supply from Hand Draw Monkey from now on as we have agreed a better supply schedule that should mean that it’s on the list a lot more.  Pale, IPA and ‘What would Jephers do?’ on the list from them this week, and more monkey based shenanigans real soon.

One of the things that we are working hard to make work better is the supply of bottled product. If you are interested in some bottled beers from our brewers, then get in touch and we should now have a lot more stock than we have carried in the past, especially of Tiny Rebel and Moor bottles. We will be developing stock of other brewers products as well over the next few months, but if there is something particular you want, then we’ll as ever try to source that as well.

One of my favorites is back on this week, Buxton’s American Rye, along with the new American hopped iteration of Buxton Bitter and old favorites Moor Top and Gold. We reckon that Buxton ought to get a lot more love than they do at the moment, really well brewed beers that show loads of skills off and are a lot more hop forward and modern than some of the names and badges might suggest. Hopefully this batch will come with the new design pump clips that will raise the bar top image a lot.

Tiny Rebel have been at it again as well, ‘Hank’ just won’t stop rolling out to you lovely people and this week we have it in Keg for the first time, and  Beatbox re-appears in Cask. We also have restock of some other lines and are expecting Fubar. Urban and Hadouken bottles any minute.

Have a great weekend!

Cheers

Justin and Steve.