More big brand kicking

The last post was about kicking out big brand lager. In the last 2 weeks we've also had fun with a major big brand cola manufacturer. We have a fridge belonging to them. We used to have a soda gun (post mix) machine but they refused to service it due to us being on fell water. The acid in the peat rots the machine, apparently. Anyway, the sales rep came and said if we don't have 80% their products in their fridge they would take the fridge away. We said if they took the fridge away we'd stock none of their products.

So, we now stock none of their products and bought a new fridge.....and the peat helps make great ale.

We have now decided to stock Fentimans soft drinks. This does make it interesting for those who require shandy, but as we don't approve of putting lemonade in good beer we are not going to loose any sleep over that. Fentimans lemonade is good traditional cloudy stuff, actually tasting of lemons. But it also makes the shandy cloudy. Interesting... better to have the lemonade to quench ones thirst and then enjoy one half of a quality beer afterwards.

A local paper featured us this week, commenting on our determination not to stock big brand products. Check out http://www.nwemail.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=800821

Finally, thanks to the anonymous comment - Dave is delighted to be called nuts - but then we all knew he was anyway. To understand that you'll just have to check the previous post.