So the dang Mexicans have sent us this hideous disease and we are all confined to barracks… oh, hang on. Not the Mexicans? Okay, well anyway we’re all confined to barracks but Boris, bless ‘im, has decided that beer is on the ‘essential’ list – and how brilliantly British is that by the way? – so we over here at T’Shed are doing our very best to get some stock and get the webshop sorted.
In all fairness, the concept here was never small-pack deliveries. The Shed Beer concept was this neat idea that we thought would work really well for functions and events:
Now of course, thanks to someone who isn’t Mexican, all events for 2020 have been cancelled. We will still roll out the beer shed concept as it’s absolutely the core of the Shed Beer masterplan; we just don’t know when that might be.
In the meantime, being disciples of the principle that ‘when life gives us lemons we should find a recipe for lemonade rather than bitch about not having any oranges’, we need to adjust what we are doing; and maybe learn something in the process so…
Any and all stock of our own beer that we had is being packaged into 500ml bottles and sold through the webshop for local delivery. The brewing supplies we have can be packaged up and sold to local homebrewers because our bulk supply lines are still open, and we are sourcing as much stock as we can locally so that we can offer as diverse a product range as possible.
If you are a homebrewer we can help with malt and hops just now and we are working on complete whole grain recipe kits. We are always happy to talk to kindred spirits as well so will help where we can.
Our trading relationship with our favourite local brewers is still very much in place so we will be able to offer their products as well. Those will be mostly small pack but if anyone needs kegs we may be able to get them and there’s a distinct possibility that we may be able to do some bag-in-box cask beers and craft ciders.
Going forwards we will be able to brew once or twice a week but that will take a few weeks before there’s any impact, and this assumes that our supply lines remain open and beer deliveries remain essential.
We are doing our best. Please be patient, please like and share the Facebook page, and do email with anything we might be able to help with in these weird times; we’re listening.
Steve