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A (brief) history of the UK packaged Ice Age20/04/2021 - 10:35 am

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Friends, come behind the curtain for 5 minutes and

Friends, come behind the curtain for 5 minutes and see how we crank the levers on this MF.
So, our oldest #craftice client is working back through the gears with a new cocktail menu, a revamp to the bar and a team full of 'fuck, yeah' attitude.
They asked if we could produce a hollow #ice #sphere for one of their serves?
Now, we've seen it done - on somewhere like @eater - with a #gameofthrones inspired cocktail, hell we've done it ourselves for a drinks activation but that was just a dozen pieces and the PR company paid plenty for the privilege.
What these guys want is a production run of maybe 100 pieces a week and see how it goes.
So we got to work asking the right questions.
Volume of serve
ABV of serve
Temp of serve
Method of serve
Most important : budget
Y'know, all those questions that other companies don't even think to enquire about.
And we got the answers back, and we liked what we read.
So, after a bit of R&D #nailedit
This baby will hold 70(ish)ml of 20% alcohol served at 4c for C. 7 minutes before it gives out and cracks.

Shit, this isn't even their serve - which is in a #crushedice bed #martini #glass but we'll let them take the laurels for that when they start posting in a couple of days.

We've been doing this stuff for years. Engage us with confidence. Ice. We get it. Beyond freezing, #wemakedrinkscooler

#specialityice #artisanice #luxuryice #cocktailice #manchester #leeds #Liverpool #sheffield #hull #grimsby #york #schoolsneverout #dontbestandard

Oh, thanks for getting this far. That's #frangelico in the ball, chilled to 4c. 20% yo
And the old school stopwatch is how we do loads of time and motion studies. Smart phones ain't for everything
#micdrop

Absolutely tickled pink to onboard our newest clie

Absolutely tickled pink to onboard our newest client. They've got all the fun stuff like secret doors, passwords but more importantly a really well-thought out drinks offering in a lovely, intimate venue with hella good mood lighting.

The gaffer, a smashing bloke we'll call John, because he's err, called John, contacted us coming out of lockdown and did things exactly the way we like when we said 'really sorry we're fully scheduled at the moment, but keep in touch we're increasing our production'. A phone call now and then, a WhatsApp to check in, and here we are.

They've gone for a few styles, an awesome #ice #stick, and a couple of #rocks #blocks. These ones are beasts. The double rocks glass is huge, it's a soup bowl. You need both hands. Seriously. So, a 60mm cube does the trick. 196 grams of ice per go and still only about 60p a pop.

Its John's birthday tomorrow and he's having a few drinks at his place. Enjoy them our dude, #salud, #cincin and of course many happy returns

#clearice #craftice#specialityice #cocktailice #fancyice #artisanice #cleariceonly #clearicematters #cleariceattached #manchester #sheffield #leeds #Liverpool #york #hull #shokunin #dontbestandard #fiftymillsforwimpsw

Now that's a neatly loaded van, if we say so ourse

Now that's a neatly loaded van, if we say so ourselves. 900kg of 4 different styles of ice, with a bit of crafty stuff perched at the top. Nearly all of our business is #manchester based, and we're based in Manchester so the food miles is practically zero. A free bottle of something nice for the answer to why have we left a space top left? Clue its not for old school ice tongs, a massive pointless ice saw, a stihl chainsaw with fireworks coming out of the nose sprocket but it is a genuine #ice #merchants most useful tool
#buylocal #buysmarter #theinvisiblehand #dontbestandard

Remember those #craftice sample pieces with the ch

Remember those #craftice sample pieces with the cherry on top? Yeah, they became a product on the clients purchase management system...

Seven passes through the equipment and then finished on a #pillardrill

A 50/50/60mm totally clear piece of ice with notches taken around the base that we call #bootcut, so it fits perfectly in the #singlerocks #tumbler.

Significantly less than a quid per piece, including the individual wrap so they don't stick together after a few days/weeks in a low temperature freezer.

The sour cherry #americano available at @Hawksmoormanchester has become one of their summertime hits - because its a fabulous #cocktail, helped on its way a little by our ice.

That's what you get when you buy from us
#premiumice #artisanice #specialityice #luxuryice #gourmetice #clearicematters #schoolsneverout #shokunin #dontbestandard

If you know us, you know we dislike faux #artifice

If you know us, you know we dislike faux #artifice and bullshit #affectation, like leather aprons, Ice tongs and giant saws. We're not trying to fell #majoroak here. Jeez.

But we do like equipment that makes our day to day tasks easier.

Which is where this beauty comes in. 25 quid off ebay scored us a sweet #CAMP #icesaw, manufactured on the pretty village of #Premana #Italy. The wide aluminium teeth are super good at cutting through the nugget crushed Ice that we harvest from our #Hoshizaki equipment that sometimes wads and cakes in the bins.

Occasionally as we're using it, we think about its real life, up in the Alps or closer to home in the Scottish and Welsh mountain ranges. Now it's got a loving home here in #Manchester.

#nutsaboutice #bereal #reuse #recycle #schoolsneverout #dontbestandard

One of the prototype #craftice pieces we've worked

One of the prototype #craftice pieces we've worked up for a client that's changing out their menu at the moment. Not even the #zhivago #bootcut 70mm - that we hope they'll go for.
The #cherry standing to attention, how we do that? Glad you asked 😂
Its a 25mm hemispheric void we cut into the top, so your signature garnish doesn't roll off your signature serve.
All precision cut by humans no #cnc necessary.
#fancyice #luxuryice #artisanice #specialityice #cocktailice #clearicematters #easywhenyouknowhow #forbartendersthatgiveashit #dontbestandard #schoolsneverout #shokunin

So the whole universe is just basically energy and

So the whole universe is just basically energy and matter, right? Or maybe mostly energy and a bit of matter.
Some energy is easy to see and feel, a volcanic eruption, a lightning strike. Some we need instruments or tools to measure: electromagnetic or gravitational waves.
But when random #ice crystals align and shape themselves into beautiful #artnouveau #filigree #patterns, that will soon be gone leaving totally clear blocks of ice we think: 'well played universe, that's a beautiful thing. Thanks for showing me'.
Thought we'd share. Enjoy your #fridaynight whether you're in, out or #outout. Someone, somewhere is carving ice.
#passthezoot

That moment when one of your fave bars makes an of

That moment when one of your fave bars makes an off-menu #cocktail cos #fathersday innit.
#metaxa
#amarononino
#mead
#espresso
@conorknowles can skip arm day at the gym, look at the effin #microemulsion on that.
Codename Thassian Be
Here's to all the dads, brothers, sons, nephews, and good guys out there
#staygolden #dontbestandard

That beautiful moment when only having 4sq metres

That beautiful moment when only having 4sq metres of bar space doesn't stop you having a full coffee offering, draught lines, a wine list, a cocktail menu and oh yeah: a #craftice programme
Nice one Jemma, smashing #lifegoals as always😍 🏆🥇
#clearice #artisanice #luxuryice #specialityice #fancyice #manchester #sheffield #liverpoool #york #wakefield #leeds #sizeisnteverything #girlsgetitdone #itsawomanthing

That beautiful moment when patrons of a great bar

That beautiful moment when patrons of a great bar take better photos of your product than you do.
📸@missleialily
#craftice #fancyice #cocktailice#specialityice #artisanice #premiumice #iceofinstagram #clearicefetish #clearicematters #dontbestandard
#homeofthetaperedcube #drinkstagram #manchester #sheffield #wakefield #leeds #hull #york #liverpool

We did a photoshoot just after lockdown v1.0 and h

We did a photoshoot just after lockdown v1.0 and have been playing around with the images for awhile now. There's some new stuff coming on the Web, and on here. Back fat, pinnys, a bit of a curtain tug to reveal the magic but amongst all the images, the pictures of the factory floor keep coming back at me. . The sealed concrete, epoxy paint, caution tape and always #water. Always. Its elemental. Thanks bubba (@bill_ayres), it was your eye that saw it. Now all we need is a bare-assed boy diving in and we've got a @david.hockney going on👍

When Messrs Schofield asked if we could look at ma

When Messrs Schofield asked if we could look at making some icey shapes for their #spritzer serves, we said hell to the yes. So we came up with what we laughingly called #galetduvin, or 'wine pebbles'. 100% clear, 3ish ppm pure and perfect for a long, refreshing glass of something sparkling. Here's their #aperolspritz and let us tell you, It hit the spot 💯

Kids watch TV funny. #becauseiwasinverted #topgun

Kids watch TV funny.
#becauseiwasinverted
#topgun

Hey we like #ice, I mean 'we love freezing' is our

Hey we like #ice, I mean 'we love freezing' is our strap line but we don't ONLY like ice, y'know?

Mike's worked with us for years and years but his real work, his life, is art. He's a #pastellist by trade and his work - we think- is superb. He makes an abandoned garage in #droylesden look like Southern California.

Anyway, in the new house we said we'd make a Mike Wood Wall, and here it is.

So yeah, like ice, but like art too.

#fineart #pastel #chiaroscuro #acrylic #wetinwet #manchester #artists #midcentury #furniture #Gplan #Ercol #stilllife

A long time ago we said we'd get on to the subject

A long time ago we said we'd get on to the subject of water purity for our fancy ice, not just clarity.

I was laughing on email last night with a business friend about my Instagram 'rants' and fuck me didn't this just nearly turn into one.

I've rolled it right back, deleted all the Diss tracks and shortened it right up. We don't talk about our production processes much because we've been copied a lot. Let's leave it there.

OK so the top pic is a chart on the back of a water tester with the Parts Per Million you can expect from various water sources and is termed 'total dissolved solids'.

For those in the know, we're not talking rare metals, alkaloids and such or micro-organisms and viruses and that's because we're lucky to operate in a country that takes those kind of things very seriously and deals with them at the processing plant / pumping Station so we don't have to worry about them.

In Manchester our water comes from two places - a unesco world heritage site (the lake district) or an area of outstanding natural beauty (the peak district).

That's the input water reading bottom left 44ppm. Fucking spring water basically.

On the right 3ppm is after we've frozen the water into ice (and then melted it to get a read).

3 in a million? Better than any bottled water out there apart from distilled or pharmaceutical 'aqua'...

Yeah and that's our standard #craftice offering. If you want us to put the filters on then we can get it to 0ppm but it will cost extra and we have to charge vat (HMRC internal document VWASS2500 schedule 8).

Ask your specialist ice provider about their ppm. Do they know? Do they care?

#staypure #dontbestandard #clearicematters #artisanice #luxuryice #cocktailice #fancyice #schoolsneverout #shokunin @alcademics

We've not posted any #craftice stuff for ages beca

We've not posted any #craftice stuff for ages because there's been nothing to say.

Last night my wife saw me painting the fire surround with a tiny brush, like the sort I used to paint model planes and tanks with. 'you've got the patience of a saint', she told me. To me it's just doing the job right, for foiling you need to lay down 8-10 coats of metallic paint to get that lovely rococo effect.

There's a bar opening in #manchester soon and I've been talking to the owners for years now, we've become business friends I reckon. Over the last week or so they've asked for some ideas and gave me a sample of their glassware. Ones a tall and thin #collins, the other a tapered #rocks. And I mean tapered like 85mm at the rim and 35mm at the base.

They also mentioned the serve volume they're looking for. So I got to work with a ruler, those #drugdealer scales I've talked about and some elbow grease.

I really don't see other #specialityice providers talking about #tapered ice pieces. Maybe it's because it's too time-consuming. Maybe it's because you cant work them on the #industrystandard table saw and sled setup that nearly everyone uses (we don't BTW).

Anyway, long story short here's a 60/55/35mm tapered #rocksblock, a tapered #pebble with wash lines from #rum we demo'd with, that remind me of a geological formation and some 135/28mm Collins #columns that create a perfect 200ml serve.

Oh, and theres the half finished fireplace.

Fuck, I really love #ice. And also fuck, I really miss my business.

#fancyice #luxuryice #artisanice #icematters #clearice #manchester #Liverpool #leeds #york #stokeontrent #hull #schoolsneverout #shokunin #dontbestandard

#snowday #VW #T5. Shameless self promotion

#snowday #VW #T5.

Shameless self promotion

So it's a different #cleariceweek for us this year

So it's a different #cleariceweek for us this year. For our friends across the world, let us just put you on about the sitch in manchester, UK. Apart from about 2 months in July / August hospitality has been pretty much fucked since March 2020. No-one can open apart from a nonsense figleaf delivery service. Pivotting/switch selling are bullshit words for most of our clients, who just serve great drinks to nice people, in person, face-to-face, glass to mouth.
Hey, we're doing as well as can be expected, we've known our landlord 20 years, he's good people, we'll be back when we're allowed. And worry not, we ain't forgotten how to hand carve, precision tool, press, drill, freeze or deliver our innovative, well-priced, custom cut pieces for when our valued friends and customers can open their doors again.
Just don't expect that to be anytime soon.
#peace

#snowmen of #manchester #sk5

#snowmen of #manchester #sk5

Someone once said to us the best deals leave both

Someone once said to us the best deals leave both sides unhappy. We reckon they're onto something with that.

So, let's toast #brexit being done, for good or ill with a cheeky @hushheath rose glass of fizz. And because insta perfection isn't really our thing you can have the #calpol dispensers & family life clutter of our happy #christmas home.

Wishing all our friends, clients, family and others the best holiday season possible, and seeing as 2020 set an insanely low bar, like step over low, a brighter, better 2021.

Salut! 🥂💝👍

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