Yes I did and he also said that the price of hops has come down which it hasn't.
In fact it's gone through the roof, so I'd take anything he says with a pince of salt.
Looked like he was reading from a prepared BBC script to me.
Some hops, maybe, but the neighbour couldn't get a contract for his Admiral last year ,so sprayed it off. All his East Kent Goldings, on the other hand, went to the craft boys in the US of A. Funny old world.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.