Flavoured milk very popular, especially the cream egg!
Brian and Cency McLeer have begun selling milk directly to the public from vending machines in Termonfeckin – it’s called “Feckin Clogher Milk”, it comes in ten flavours, and the locals can’t get enough of it!
The McLeer family have been farming at Almondstown, Clogherhead for over two centuries but recently Brian and Cency began selling milk directly to the public and it’s going down a storm
If old-fashioned creamy milk is not your thing you can also opt for adding one of ten different flavours.
Brian is from Clogherhead and Cency is a Termonfeckin woman so the brand name they chose for their pasteurised and non-homogenised creamy milk sold in reusable bottles was “Feckin Clogher Milk”. Well, it had to be really didn’t it?
“We opened a few weeks ago on the grounds of the Forge Field and the support from the communities of Clogherhead and Termonfeckin and surrounding areas has been phenomenal” said Cency.
“People are loving the fact that they can get fresh, creamy milk every day. We’ve had people queuing up in the morning to get milk for their cornflakes,” she laughed.
Customers can opt for half litre or litre glass bottles from the vending machine and then top them up with fresh milk. The bottles of course can be used over and over again.
They also have the option of flavouring their milk with any of ten different flavours such as salted caramel, vanilla, Cream Egg, Banana, chocolate, orange chocolate, bubble gum, strawberry or biscuit but the cream egg is definitely the favourtite so far.
“The flavoured milk is a huge thing” Cency told us, “especially the cream egg flavour. People can put either 50 or 25 mls into the milk, depending on the size of the bottle – and we have already sold 15 litres of the cream egg flavour alone which is a huge amount in thinking of the small optics in each bottle.
“People are using it in their coffees and parents are telling us that their kids are now asking for bottles of flavoured milk instead of fizzy drinks, which is a good thing.”
Another side of the business that Brian and Cency hadn’t anticipated is that locals are buying the old-style recyclable milk bottles featuring the Feckin Clogher Milk label and sending them as souvenirs to relatives around the world.
Cency told Drogheda Life this morning that they are delighted with the response to their novel product. As for future plans she said it is early days but there was the possibility of installing self-service units in shopping centres.
