New host
If you are reading this and things look different ,that is because we have switched over to a new webhost, Site5.com. So far so good. I did this because I would like to implement a shopping cart on the website for T-shirts and stuff, and our old host was pretty much useless and unhelpful in this regard. Another reason was that our blog software, moveable type, has a commercial license fee that we cannot afford to pay… so I need to move the blog to Wordpress which is Open source and free. However Wordpress runs on PHP which our old provider did not have either. Our new host is cheaper too, so I guess that was the third strike against our old webhost… YOUR OUT!!
All in all its been a fun adventure. I even discovered that person in charge of our Domain Name no longer works here and I could not find him.. So I had to convince that yes, I do own the domain Millstreambrewing.com!
Wordpress is great so far, but I need to find the time to customize the layout to look like the rest of the site.
Things are just exploding at the seams at the brewery, its seems like beer and rootbeer is moving out the door as fast as we can package it. This has led to a few bottlenecks (excuse the pun) this week. The largest one is that we recieved a truckload of cheap glass last week that turned out be too cheap, and we could not use it. Every third bottle on the line was breaking. We also had to bottle 11 pallets of Warsh Pail Ale for a beer club, so that left us short on bottles for ourselves. That was monday! Then on Tuesday we ran out of Wheat kegs. We have a rule around here that we don’t keg out of a tank before we bottle, because that seems to keep us from having micro problems with our bottles. So we have Wheat in the cellar, but no bottles to put it in and we can’t keg it yet!!
The good news is that glass will be here today (Thursday) and we will be able to bottle and keg Friday. In the meantime there is no wheat beer on tap in the salesroom. I hate to see an empty tap handle in the salesroom, so I took the opportunity to move the Miafest nob down to the where the Wheat was, and put the Saison on tap temporarily. So far, no complaints!
On Monday we bottled our Black Cherry for the first time. Its yummy… everyone is very satisified that it is a quality product deserving of the Millstream name. My prediction- its going to sell like hotcakes! Just look at this cute packaging!
