Just got back from testing the Mashup beer scales at Bath Ales brewery - what a laugh!The brewery is an amazing place with giant stainless steel vats, pipes and kegs everywhere. Fork lift trucks wizz about, steam hisses and the fantastic smell of hops hits you as soon as you open the car door. We chose the conditioning room for the photo shoot as it had a great wall of kegs stacked to the ceiling - this was to be the backdrop for the press photo.
Things started to get interesting when the Bristol Evening Post photographer arrived and suggested that the beer scales would look best balanced on top of a pallet of kegs. This was all very well until Mike Brown, who was to be the runner in the photo, realised he had to stand on one end while we balanced his weight with beer at the other - with nothing below him.
Mike's nerves were soon calmed with a slurp of Gem and Richard Dempster, Bath Ales director got to work with stacking beer to balance his weight. The warehouse had beer in all sorts of containers; from full sized kegs through polybins to individual bottles. We tried them all, the scales worked, Mike was weighed and the photo was taken.
Regulations prevent me from revealing Mike's exact weight in beer before the main event but I can say that we are in for a good party on 20th June.
Check the Bristol Evening Post later this week for the offical story.
Martin
