Starship Enterprise
I don't know where the time has gone, It only seems like last week when I blogged but it's closer to three. No excuses apart from the fact that we are very pleasantly busy.
There's masses of news on the pub front. Our trade association (SIBA) runs a Direct Delivery Scheme whereby some pubs owned by Enterprise Inns can take a guest beer from a local brewery. We are now on this scheme so keep an eye on the beer finder page to see where we could pop up. Obviously whats good for Enterprise Inns has to be good for us. It gets our name out and about to more people and of course sells more beer. What it does for Enterprise Inns is it brings more people into their pubs where of course they will spend money on other things than just beer and they will tell their friends what wonderful beer is available just down the road and so it goes on. It's one of those win win things!
Hayley at the Selborne Arms has been taking our beer for the past couple of weeks and it's great to supply beer to such a wonderful pub. Visit it if you can. It lies at the foot of the Zig-Zag which is a path that runs up to the top of the hill where you can walk for hours on Sheep Common and further afield into Selborne Common. It may be a zig-zag but it's still bloody knackering to get to the top. Worth it for the view though.
Another newcomer is The Uplands Park Hotel and Conference Centre which is just down the road from us. The bar and restaurant are open to the public and its great that Brian the owner and Mark the bar manager are taking Swift One. Hopefully this will be a regular thing.
Also just down the road (or possibly just over the hill) is The Thomas Lord in West Meon. It's owned by David and Richard, who for the past year have been doing wonderful things not only to the pub interior but also to the garden. Inside its bare boards, tables and chairs of all sorts and sizes, a library, a marble dog drinking vessel that looks suspiciously like a font and barrels behind the bar. Outside Rich is slaving in the kitchen garden which has raised beds and tonnes of manure. I think it is in the shape of a (wait for it......) quincunx! Oh the beauty of the English language. Honestly gentleman, you are doing a fine thing there.
That's all for the moment as I have a hell of a lot of beer to rack off. I will tag a nature watch on to this when I have a moment.
There's masses of news on the pub front. Our trade association (SIBA) runs a Direct Delivery Scheme whereby some pubs owned by Enterprise Inns can take a guest beer from a local brewery. We are now on this scheme so keep an eye on the beer finder page to see where we could pop up. Obviously whats good for Enterprise Inns has to be good for us. It gets our name out and about to more people and of course sells more beer. What it does for Enterprise Inns is it brings more people into their pubs where of course they will spend money on other things than just beer and they will tell their friends what wonderful beer is available just down the road and so it goes on. It's one of those win win things!
Hayley at the Selborne Arms has been taking our beer for the past couple of weeks and it's great to supply beer to such a wonderful pub. Visit it if you can. It lies at the foot of the Zig-Zag which is a path that runs up to the top of the hill where you can walk for hours on Sheep Common and further afield into Selborne Common. It may be a zig-zag but it's still bloody knackering to get to the top. Worth it for the view though.
Another newcomer is The Uplands Park Hotel and Conference Centre which is just down the road from us. The bar and restaurant are open to the public and its great that Brian the owner and Mark the bar manager are taking Swift One. Hopefully this will be a regular thing.
Also just down the road (or possibly just over the hill) is The Thomas Lord in West Meon. It's owned by David and Richard, who for the past year have been doing wonderful things not only to the pub interior but also to the garden. Inside its bare boards, tables and chairs of all sorts and sizes, a library, a marble dog drinking vessel that looks suspiciously like a font and barrels behind the bar. Outside Rich is slaving in the kitchen garden which has raised beds and tonnes of manure. I think it is in the shape of a (wait for it......) quincunx! Oh the beauty of the English language. Honestly gentleman, you are doing a fine thing there.
That's all for the moment as I have a hell of a lot of beer to rack off. I will tag a nature watch on to this when I have a moment.
