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Jeremy Clarkson offers brewery advice to A level students
TV presenter and drinks producer Jeremy Clarkson has tweeted to A level students telling them not worry if they don’t get the results they wanted as he has “my own brewery”.
Stating that he only got a C and 2 Us in his A levels, he countered that “here I am today with my own brewery” in spite of the results that he achieved.
Clarkson launched his first beer in 2021 under the Hawkstone brand with the Cotswold Beer Co. and using ingredients from his own farm, before expanding the operation to include cider as well.
The tweet quickly gained traction on social media, with a number of celebrities and brands commenting.
The BWT Alpine team replied, saying it was ‘not a bad brewery either’. This was in reference to when he turned up to the team’s headquarters with a tractor and his colleague from his farm business and Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm show, Kaleb Cooper. He was making the bottle drop due to posting on Twitter that if Esteban Ocon finished third at the Monaco Grand Prix, he had promised every team members a pint.
It’s not the end of the world if your A level results aren’t what you’d hoped for. I got a C and 2 Us and here I am today with my own brewery.
Not a bad brewery either. Cheers for the beers pic.twitter.com/Ozkx1COd49
— BWT Alpine F1 Team (@AlpineF1Team) August 17, 2023
One user also made reference to his beer exploding, which Clarkson responded by saying the beer was “mercifully fine”, and he was having some with his breakfast in the south of France. The exploding drink was a reference to Clarkson’s cider brand, which had required the motoring journalist to explain how to safely open bottles of his Hawkstone Cider, after it emerged that some of them could potentially explode.
On 21 July, Clarkson broke the news that there was a faulty batch of bottles that could go boom:
The reason that those particular ciders come with a risk of exploding is, as revealed by the Hawkstone Instagram account, due to a small amount of the beverage “over fermenting”, leading to a build up of pressure in bottles.
Clarkson’s comments about brewing comes as there are currently a large number of vacancies in the agriculture trade, as well as in related industries such as the hospitality and food and drinks trades.
There are currently plans in place to fill the approximately 100,000 vacancies in the UK’s hospitality sector by introducing “boot camps” to train the unemployed in how to work in pubs, bars and restaurants.