A long day at the brewery and a trip to Atlanta

Sunday was a day of projects at the brewery. 2 barrels of ESB (brewed in conjunction with the local homebrewer's club "The Barley Mob" had to be transferred to a secondary tank. The conical fermenter had to be cleaned. And 1/6 barrel of the centennial needed to be packaged for hair of the dog. Then the primary tank for the ESB had to be cleaned and five gallons of the esb transferred to a cask to naturally carbonate. Also the list for Monday's trip to the Crosby Baker warehouse in Atlanta, needed to be finalzed-the primary purpose of which was to obtain more 22 oz "bombers" for the Juniper Pale Ale. The first three cases were already promised to Green Life Grocery. which left only two cases in stock. Out of those, One consisted of shortfills and the other was dedicated as samples for bars, stores, ect...It seemed apparent that at least initially the bottles were going to sell better than the kegs, although my profit margin was higher on the bottles, the initial investment is lower for the retailer per unit (case of bottles vs the price of a 1/2 barrel keg. Labels for the bottles performed well dry but the adhesive was not working as well under the wet conditions typical of the exterior of a beer bottle. Part of my goal the following week was to determine a better label source. All was accomplished with the help of several volunteer homebrewers who dropped by the brewery. Finally I was done around 10 pm, with a trip to atlanta to look forward to in the morning.