Jeremy Clarkson is set to go from Top Gear to Top Beer – after applying for an alcohol licence for his farm shop.
The Grand Tour presenter, 60, wants to serve well-heeled Cotswolds shoppers from 9am-11pm.
Clarkson, opened his Diddly Squat Farm Shop in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, last February.
He lives with girlfriend Lisa Hogan on the 312-acre farm, bought in 2012 for £4.25million.
Clarkson applied for permission to open a cafe next-door to the farm shop last November.
Now the Mirror can reveal he wants to sell alcohol in both venues.
He has promised all beer, wine and spirits will be locally-sourced and produced.
But some locals are up in arms over his definition of ‘local’.
Clarkson wants to sell items produced within a 30-mile radius.
A dozen people have objected to the plans, with one branding it a “Trojan horse” which “deliberately ignored” the terms of the original application for the shop.
Locals have until March 2 to comment before a decision by West Oxfordshire Council.
Clarkson, who made his name on Top Gear, has boasted of making sourdough bread on the farm, as well as producing honey.
According to the farm shop’s website, it also sells sausage rolls, cakes, apple juice and ‘cow juice’.
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