Hampshire grower feeds the stills for trendy vodka

摘要

In the second of our three-part series on Budgeting for Brexit, David Jones visits two malting barley growers who have tapped into the expanding distilling market to give them a secure destination for their low-nitrogen grain at a premium price.Chris Allen is the only malting barley grower supplying the uber-trendy gin and vodka brand Bimber, which he hopes will shelter him from the cold winds of Brexit.Low-nitrogen barley grown on his Hampshire downland farm fetches a distilling market premium and goes to produce English barley vodka selling at close to ￡35/bottle.