Well, how wrong we were. Turns out there were quite a few of you listening, and your interest, advice, encouragement - and most importantly your enthusiasm - has been remarkable and greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.
We've been getting loads of questions about the new project (where are we? how can we get hold of your beer?), and so far our honest, if rather unhelpful, response can only be, er, dunno. Figuring that this might make us look a little under prepared (as if!), not to mention get a little tedious for those asking the questions, we thought we'd post a little something on the timescales. We'll also try and answer a few of the common questions in the process.
The next few months will be spent refining our business plan. We hope to have this finalised by the new year. As I've said before we're still so young that everything's still up for grabs - from where we'll be based, to barrel size, to whether we'll be selling casks, bottles or a mixture of both. We know we'll be based in east Kent but beyond that, little else is set in stone. Front runners for our final resting place are Faversham and Margate, but we'll see.
The first few months of 2014 will be spent taking our plan to "investors" (to use the business term) / "family & friends" (to speak truthfully). We're really not talking Dragons' Den here guys.
Hopefully we'll have all our investment in place by spring 2014. And at that stage we can then start putting our plans into place - finding a home, sorting out our design and all that fun stuff. We're under no illusions (well, we might be...I suppose we wouldn't know) that it'll fall into place quickly but, with hard work and luck, we hope to be brewing the first Boutilliers' brew late autumn/early winter 2014. Just in time to get some roasted malts into the mash.
We'll see. I'm sure there'll be plenty of changes to that plan alone the way. But as long as we get there in the end, right? We'll keep you posted along the way.
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