Good business ideas don’t come along all the time, but I think that I have spotted a little business venture that would be a hit in the UK. It won’t score millions from the Dragons in the Dragon’s Den, but I think that it would make someone a tidy profit once they got going. I’ve had a couple other ideas, but not sure how feasible they would be.
“What is your get rich quick scheme?” I hear you ask. It’s a little business that I visited here in Perth today. Actually it’s the second time that I’ve been, and I can’t remember if I told you about the adventure last time I went.
The place is a small micro-brewery. What’s so special about that, I hear you ask. Well, it’s a brewery with a difference. When you walk in, you are given a choice of about 400 different types of beer/lager/cider on a menu. They aren’t brand names, but next to them is listed the popular brand of beer/lager/cider that these 400 varieties are similar to.
When you decide on your variety, you are given a menu card with some quite precise instructions, and pointed in the direction of what look like an industrial kitchen, with large stainless steel vats (50 litre size), scales, timers, and barrels of various, quite exotic sounding ingredients. Following the precise instructions on the card, you weigh out into various receptacles different ingredients, and then add them to your individual, large stainless steel vat at precise times. After about an hour of this brewing, you load the large vat onto a trolley, and it is then labelled up, and pushed into the back of the store, to wait for 2-3 weeks, while your beer/lager/cider is brewed to perfection.
That was done shortly after Jane, Daisy, Analiese, and Mum had gone back to the UK. I went there with my friend Jamie, and we spent an hour or so chewing the fat, brewing our beer, and sampling some of the brewery’s own already made stuff. We have gone halves – 3 cases each – and had picked a beer called “Mexicano” (supposed to be a Corona equivalent). Today it was ready to put into cans, and take home.
Jamie and I canned up our beer, sampling it as we went along, (just to make sure that it was okay). You’ve got the choice of canning the beer (very easy), or bottling it (very involved – you’ve got to have the bottles, and then you’ve got to sterilize them, fill them, and put tops on them). We chose cans for an easy life. After about 1 ½ hours we were done, and trundled off home.
Needless to say, we did try a few more of our brew before the day was out!
That goes down as a great business venture – brew and can your own beer in a proper brewery. It rates up there along with renting out hot tubs (like the one we’ve got – inflatable) as a business venture that would thrive in Brighton.
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