when we spoke to my first guest last year, things had become so challenging for florian bockermann�*st beer brewery in munster, germany — that he feared he may have to let people go, or even close the whole thing down. a year on, we wanted to know how things had gone. so, one year ago, the situation was very bad. so, we got bills coming in, all prices increased, energy prices, the malt prices, bottling prices — everything increased. so we really were worrying about our future. we are a small company, so we really were afraid maybe to close the company, or to lay off people. and that was a really bad feeling because, i mean, your employees, which really grow your company with you, they're your friends, you work with them very closely. they have families, they have children. and if you're really in such an unsecure situation to really not know if they can stay or not, it is very bad. and so for me, last year was a really, really bad time. and, yeah, we are really happy what was happening now, or what is happening now, so we could increase our sales numbers. despite the increasing prices