razshan, sounds great, I'm always happy for my brain to be picked. If I don't know the answer to a question I'll straight up admit that, but I'll help you figure out the right answer anyway!
eloschgimpel, no worries, we'll have some kegking 6kg cylinders for swapping. I'm also working on getting in Weyermann and Thomas Fawcett malts - although they might take a little longer. We're going to set up with a good selection of Wyeast, and we'd be able to special order in Whitelabs strains as needed. I'd seen that chart over at mrmalty - solid effort they made in putting it together. Figuring out which strains I need to order in straight away is good fun, just reading through their range is making me thirsty, I think I'll be putting on a saison with 3711 pretty soon. Glad you like the approach, I figure it's best to be transparent and try to get people what they want!
BeerNess, I hear you re: refills, at this point it's probably going to be prohibitively expensive/difficult for us to set up a refill station, but we'll see how we go with the swap overs and if the demand is there for on the spot refills we'd certainly consider it.
///Scotty, you're right, renaissance is probably the wrong word, but the interest in decent beer is still growing as it has been for years now and with it comes a wider interest in homebrew - I think it's brilliant.
