Zak Avery
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, OFF-TRADE, TASTING/SPEAKING
15 Cross Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 0DG.
07958 320362 (m) 0113 393 4199 (w)
zak@thebeerboy.co.uk

Currently a freelance journalist and independent retailer (but has been many other things; a chef, a recording artist and a sculptor’s assistant, to name the more interesting ones), Zak is an enthusiast of all global styles of beer, of enjoying it with food, and of talking about it. He shares his enthusiasm via his website www.thebeerboy.co.uk — which is also his springboard for organising beer tasting events. A regular columnist for Off Licence News, Zak has also written for various other publications, both extant and deceased.

Pete Brown
Expertise: FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, PUBS, TV
52 Bayston Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 7LT
07941 123048 (m)
petebrown@stormlantern.co.uk

Blog: www.petebrown.blogspot.com
Beer writer and marketing consultant. Author of Man Walks into a Pub: A Social History of Beer, and Three Sheets to the Wind: One Man's Quest for the Meaning of Beer. Writes regularly for trade and consumer press on beer and pub culture in the UK and around the world, and the marketing and advertising of beer. Regular beer reviewer on UKTV. Winner of Budvar Travel Bursary 2006.

Melissa Cole
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
29 Esme House, Ludovick Walk, London SW15 5LJ.
07798 568400 (m)
melissa.cole@btopenworld.com

Website: www.girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com
Freelance editor/columnist/journalist/speaker, specialising in all areas of the licensed trade, including beer appreciation, beer & food matching, tutored tastings and general industry commentary for the past nine years. Current editor of Bar magazine and contributing editor for on-line consumer site www.stylebible.com. Melissa also contributes to Beers of the World, Brewers’ Guardian, Eat Out, C&H, All Out Cricket and Sainsbury's Magazine to name but a few.

Tim Hampson
Expertise: FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
Chairman
76 North Hinksey Lane, Botley, Oxford, OX2 0LY.
01865 245711 (h) 07768 614283 (mobile) 01865 790675 (fax)
tim@infopub.co.uk

Author and managing editor The Beer Book, published by Dorling Kindersley. Contributor Eyewitness Companion Beer. Work appears in Food and Travel magazine, Weekend Telegraph, What’s Brewing, Drinks International, and American Brewer. Beer correspondent BBC Good Food Live and the Sky Pub Channel. Specialist knowledge of the image of beer, beer and food, developing beer menus, and the structure of the brewing and pub industry. Author Room at the Inn.


Robert Humphreys
Expertise: PUBS
Pentre Farm, Pentre, Bucknell, Shropshire, SY7 0BU.
01547 520724 (tel) 01547 520728 (fax) 07831 270244 (mobile)
humphreysr@parliament.uk parlybeergroup@btinternet.com

Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group at Westminster and of its sister group in the European Parliament, the British Beer Club.

Paul Nunny
Expertise: MARKETING
Treasurer
5 Rawstorn Road, St Marys, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3JF.
07768 614065 (w)(mobile) 01206 322465 (h)(fax).
paul@nunny.fsbusiness.co.uk

Chief Executive of Cask Marque ( www.cask-marque.co.uk ), formed to improve the quality of cask ale and to promote its values. Contributor to a wide range of journals on the subject of cask ale quality. Former Director of Adnams & Co. PLC. Chartered Accountant by profession.

Jeff Pickthall
Expertise: EUROPE, FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, MARKETING, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE), PR, TASTING/SPEAKING
17 Stoneleigh Close, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA13 9UR.
07951 104083
jeff.pickthall[AT]gmail.com

Blog: www.jeffpickthall.blogspot.com
Creator and former owner of ‘microbar’ specialist beer bar — www.microbar.org — beer seller with Utobeer. Columnist for Difford’s Guides; contributor to publications including What’s Brewing and Beers of the World; columnist for Cumbria Life. Specialist in craft beer selling, marketing and customer behaviour. Judge at 2004 Great American Beer Festival. Freelance marketing advice and PR for micros and beer-focused freehouses. Currently fantasising about setting up a brewery — stranger things have happened! Also writes about music — jazz and related genres.



Adrian Tierney-Jones
Expertise: EUROPE, FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, INDEPENDENT BREWERS, PUBS, TASTING/SPEAKING
Secretary
Woodcote, 2 Jury Road, Dulverton, Somerset TA22 9DU.
01398 324314 (w)(h) 07807 925071 (m)
tierneyjones@btinternet.com

Website: www.beeralewhatever.com
Freelance journalist whose work appears in Brewers Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Class, the Morning Advertiser, the Field and Beers of the World amongst others. Books: West Country Ales, Pubs for Families and The Big Book of Beer; also contributor to the the forthcoming The Beer Book (Dorling Kindersley); also produces tasting notes for various craft breweries including Exmoor Ales and O’Hanlon’s. Editor of SIBA Southwest’s Brewers Herald. Expert taster and talker on the world of beer. Also writes about cider. Silver award winner in the Guild’s Award for National Journalism 2006 and winner of the 2007 Budweiser Budvar John White Travel Bursary.