What's In The Tanks Then Chaps?

When we first started this blog, it was just to discuss what we were doing on a day to day basis. That seems to have got a bit derailed since then. But don't worry, we have found someone very junior to blame - they will be thoroughly retrained, demoted, sacked, publicly humiliated and then hung out to dry. Meanwhile those responsible for overseeing the junior and giving them the chance to screw it up spectacularly will be praised for how they dealt with the miscreant, and given a big bonus.

Sorry, where was I? Oh yes, the brewery:

Well in one fermenter (FV) we have the second batch of Silent Night - that's the Christmas beer in case you haven't been paying attention (don't why I try to pretend anyone really reads this nonsense). In another we have the last batch of Britannia for some time - this beer of course suffering from no suitable hops syndrome for most of 2008, one special brew aside, until the 2008 harvest is in.

Wildlife wise, I have been stormed by a Buzzard this week - they look a bit ugly in the face at close range (just 2 feet or so in this case), although to be fair the poor thing was being chased by pigeons - whom no doubt he'd tried attacking first from upon high - so he may have been wearing a worried look. He could have got a nasty disease from them (probably Man Flu, if there is a bird equivalent of the Daily Mail).

There is a Robin (aah, bless, look at his red bits, aah, how sweet) who takes a lot of interest in us, and what we are doing (aah, look at him watching us, aah, isn't he cute). He especially likes the office. Someone really needs to tell him we pay the rent, it's our building, and not his territory. Trouble is, being a Robin, he is a vicious bastard who will fight anyone, or anything, to the death. Not so aah when you think about it. Still, he is welcome to the Hares. There can't be many breweries whose outside space is used by large numbers of Hares as a night-time hang out.

Although of course it could be badgers in disguise - it like's a joke, does your badger. This is a problem, because we are trying to set up (with government funding of course) a sanctuary for the large numbers of migrating walrus we keep finding on the pond each morning. And the Government expert tells us that we can't run the Walrus sanctuary if we have a badger infestation, because of the risk of spreading Enid Blytonosis, or something. But that's good, because without sound advice like that from the Ministry Of Spending Taxes, we could have made a big error.