The Small Batch
Sixty bars to a batch — not a number chosen by marketing, but the honest ceiling of one pot and two hands.
Sixty is not scarcity theatre. It is the measure of what a single maker can pour at trace, cut true, bevel, stamp and wrap in a day — without letting one bar leave the bench unexamined.
Each batch is given its number and its date, set down by hand upon every band. Any bar can be traced to the day of its pouring, and to the register of everything that went into the pot that morning.
“We do not run out. We conclude.”
When a batch is spoken for, it is gone. We do not pour a hurried second batch to chase demand; the next is already upon the cedar, keeping its own counsel, and it will be ready when it is ready.
This is an inconvenient way to trade, and we commend it. What is made in small measure is made under the maker's eye — and it is a maker's name, not a machine's, that answers for every bar.
In practice
- Sixty bars the batch, poured from a single pot in a single sitting
- Every bar numbered and dated by hand upon its band
- Each batch's docket published — poured, cured, counted, noted