Sunday, 18 September 2016

Roll Out the Barrel

It was the start of another weekend. Stanley could tell by the atmosphere that it would be full of festivities. The fair was in town; there was talk of a match on; and the weather was said to be cold but dry in the paper, meaning that people would be looking for shelter while moving between places. He’d therefore got some of his biggest casks ready for the draymen who were due any minute to take the beer out. He’d spent the morning stacking them up in the yard, and all that remained was to get the biggest one inside for his own customers. He grinned. This barrel should last him for the whole weekend. He used to have to drive round knocking on the doors of the bigger breweries asking for a barrel as soon as their offices opened; but now that he brewed his own beer, he didn’t have to bother with that at all.

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