I'm not a betting man, John - and in any case it seems somehow demeaning to reduce so great a matter to that level. I only went on about the 'creatives', Adrian, because of this site's interests; I've even written the odd poem on the theme myself. There's plenty of business, manufacturing, commerce, natural resources (especially renewable electricity {we currently do 46% of that}, oil and gas) people - even the odd banker (shudder) - on our side as well. Check out
www.businessforscotland.co.uk to see how solid that is - oh, and talking of 'odds', the chairman of William Hill has also joined our ranks just today. Figure that? As to the serious question of malt prices, Brian.... you probably already pay less for it in France than we do here. I wouldn't worry, we'll want the consumption to go on rising. Slainte!