Business Update, this life ain’t easy!
Once upon a time in a land far far away a guy thought it was a good idea to start a Microbrewery, to make good beers without the constraints of a bigger business holding back creativity. That was the game plan, make nice stuff, sell nice stuff.
It’s a lovely idea isn’t it!
Overheads are killing us and there is always shed loads to spend on things each month, nothing is cheap!
Water used to cost 3x less.
Electricity has more than doubled.
Wages have gone up along with the National Insurance payments.
Rent, Rates, Insurance, running maintenance, it all adds up.
March last year was pretty dire, this year we’ve got less in the bank than back then. Weirdly this year has felt relatively ok but clearly it’s not, nothing is easy with the pressures on hospitality and everyone’s personal finances.
So what to do?!
We’ve always tried to do any price increases once a year in January so that customers know where they stand for the next 12 months, but right now something has to change so we will be adding a small extra amount, we are looking at £2 more per Firkin / Keykeg which works out less that 3p per pint on Cask.
And our brewery bar pint prices are going to have to go up, we put more of a structure in place for pint pricing earlier this year when we got all new Handpulls so you will have already noticed some changes to pint prices on some beers. From now on you’ll see more £4 Cask Pints but we’ll still have an occasional beer we can keep at £3 (mostly the Blondes), Lagers and other keg beers will be approx £1 more than before.
We would ask that our payment terms are adhered to, 30 days means 30 days and Invoices should be paid within this term, we may reduce these terms to to 20 days for all customers that currently make use of them to try and keep our cash flow going!
Cheers for reading and thanks for your custom, its always appreciated.
Adrian, Emma, Paul & Rob.