We had a meeting with our town hall to discuss water provision at the potential brewery site. It went pretty well, the village has a water treatment facility and a groundwater pump already and seemingly from their perspective the water is so pure they barely treat it. However, the country club near neighbouring the tea farm where our brewery may be built pumps the water up the hill and we would have to find out more about whether they do any additional treatment and discuss the possibility of a supply contract.

Whilst they were a bit quiet about whether they would pay for exploratory bore hole work at our site, they said our subsidies could be used to test the water pumped up via the country club so this is now plan A.

Interestingly, they think that perhaps the site which I would prefer but which we considered off the table due to multi-level governmental red tape might not be so difficult and may be back on the table. This sliver of hope was very well received!