2025 Business Update

Here goes another honesty-bomb!

Ok so it doesn’t feel as doom and gloom as March 2024 but with the last 3 months of 2024 showing a month on month downturn and what feels like our worst January, it’s not our worst January as that was in 2021 but as with everyone out there all our major costs have gone up so the money we get to keep goes down and down.

This week is a weird one as I have no money to chase from customers, that doesn’t mean we aren’t owed money but it does mean there have been feck all sales in January!

It’s so obvious that people don’t have the money to spend when you compare our brewery bar takings over the last few years in January:
Jan 2023 – £2264
Jan 2024 – £1586
Jan 2025 – £1236
Take off the costs of a portable loo, the beers, electric, water and staff from all that and there’s not much left other than the goodwill of our amazing supporters.

Are we all thinking, is it really worth it trying to run a nice little business?

It makes us wonder if this is the cycle we are now stuck in, we get close to the bone, we tell people of the reality, people get us over the hump, and we make just enough until next year and rinse and repeat! This isn’t how life should work!

What we see is the beers getting most traction are from the breweries with the ability to charge less because they have the economy of scale. We repeatedly try to design recipes that we could charge less for and each time we find they end up costing the same as our Blonde beers to produce meaning the only way to produce a cheaper beer without screwing over our beer-ethics is the cut our already tight margin, look out for the first of these beers with ‘Hey Bert 3.9% Jarrylo Pale’.

If you are able, please support your small brewers and small businesses.

And we all lived happily ever after, NOT!