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Apologies, I missed your first email for whatever reason. Any future emails can come through direct to me at matt@stinkybay.com if you need.
To answer your questions in short, we haven't accessed any support as I don't believe we meet any of the criteria. As a small brewery, we have luckily been able to swing our focus onto home deliveries, and we haven't been forced to directly close ourselves as we have been in the essential category, as Food and Beverage manufacturers.
The negative impacts of the majority of our pre-COVID trade (restaurants and pubs) has fortunately been, more or less, offset by an increase in retail and home deliveries.
I don't feel I'm in the best position to give advice as I'm not overly familiar with the support packages. From my point of view, the main potential impact would be wasted stock from having to pour beer down the drain if it goes out of stock. I could foresee a situation whereby our turnover remains stable, but thousands of pounds of kegged beer which was destined for pubs and restaurants needs to be destroyed if they don't open in time.
This may be something to consider; a situation whereby turnover remains fairly stable, but costs rise hugely due to having do destroy stock (as in the case of beer wholesalers etc) for example.
Anything else, please let me know. Thanks,
Matt Topman