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They're a pair that know how to craft a tasty tipple, but now they're ready to share ideas on how to make islanders 'merry' in a different way.
Something's brewing... Matt Topman and Digby Ibbotson, the pair behind Stinky Bay Brewery Company are cooking up something special ahead of 'Off the Hook' this Sunday at the Watersplash.
The pair will be presenting their new draft beer, putting an end to the Stinky Bay drought that affected the island in the past few weeks as the pair installed a new set-up in their brewery.
But amid their busy boozy schedule, they shared with Express the five things they'd do to make Jersey a little more happy (hour)...
We live on a small island and despite our best efforts down at La Collette, it's not getting any bigger any time soon.
Pictured: The island is not getting any bigger...
We need to come to terms with the fact that adding thousands more people into a finite space will have a major negative impact on infrastructure and our wild spaces. It’s a balance, but it’s tipping over…
We have massive tidal power potential and the most sunshine in the British isles (if you believe Visit Jersey) so more should be done by the States to encourage the use of renewable energies available to us on the island.
Pictured: Let's take advantage of the tide.
Make it a requirement to intergrate green energy into every new building, especially the big new blocks in town, we can afford it!
We’ve been against these since before Mr. Attenborough made it cool.
Pictured: There really is no need for plastic bags.
Use your gym bag, a paper bag, put stuff on your head or stuff your pockets. We don’t need plastic bags, ban them, end of!
With the rise of uncontrolled sites like Jersey lifts, it seems obvious what the public wants.
Pictured: If you don't want lifts or Uber, "get creative and think of an answer" say Matt and Digby.
So it makes sense to try and introduce a more regulated lift-sharing platform such as Uber to the island. Or if you don’t want that particular solution; get creative and think of an answer.
It’s a strange contradiction with all the ubiquity of social media and smartphones people are finding it harder to have genuine social relationships.
Having happy hour in Jersey wouldn’t be so much about encouraging people to drink as much as encouraging them to go to the bar or pub at the end of the day and meet their friends and have a good chat. Preferably over a cold pint of Stinky Bay, which is what we are all about really.
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