As I type this I am just about finishing for the day, tomorrow its finishing the load up and off to Tamworth for a Bar job. This job is a little smaller than our last event, but we are launching our new Shooters Bar at the event. We will be offering a range of Shots, Bombs and Shotails (like a cocktail, but built in a shot glass). We have also managed to squeeze almost the entire bar into our Citroen Dispatch, which surprsed me greatly, although to be truthful you would be hard pressed to fit an additional sheet of paper in, its packed like a jigsaw puzzle. The only things we couldn't fit in were the crates of sprits. I am sourcing a large roofbox to carry these last few items.
One thing which has surprised me is the attitude of a local brewery we contacted. We had originally intended to standardise on Carslberg as our main draught lager, and obviously use there other products as well. We had a visit from a rep who spent an hour telling me of what he was going to do for us, as he left he promised to not only email their price list and details to me, but to also send it in the post. Well that was the last we heard from him. A lady from the firm contacted me a few weeks after to aks if we were happy with their service, so I told her what I thought, to which she replied that she would forward the information to me. That was the last I heard from her!!
The upshot is that we are now using Carling products, and we are picking bar work up quicker than I expected. Admittedly we are still not using product regularly like a public house would, but surely in today's economic climate I would expect the brewery to be looking at cultivating sales to new outlets.
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One thing which has surprised me is the attitude of a local brewery we contacted. We had originally intended to standardise on Carslberg as our main draught lager, and obviously use there other products as well. We had a visit from a rep who spent an hour telling me of what he was going to do for us, as he left he promised to not only email their price list and details to me, but to also send it in the post. Well that was the last we heard from him. A lady from the firm contacted me a few weeks after to aks if we were happy with their service, so I told her what I thought, to which she replied that she would forward the information to me. That was the last I heard from her!!
The upshot is that we are now using Carling products, and we are picking bar work up quicker than I expected. Admittedly we are still not using product regularly like a public house would, but surely in today's economic climate I would expect the brewery to be looking at cultivating sales to new outlets.
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