A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Paul Ambler
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Skell View, Fountains, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 3EA.
01765 680106 (w) 01765 620350 (h)
paul@ambler.plus.com
Brewing Consultant (retired Operations Director of The Black Sheep Brewery plc). Writes technical articles for brewing magazines.
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Andrew Arnold
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, PR
Rødlersvej 28, 2990 Nivå, Denmark.
+ 45 4914 0050 (h) + 45 2129 8850 (m)
andrew.arnold@get2net.dk
Blog: www.lager-frenzy.com
Andrew works as a copywriter and strategist in Copenhagen. He has 15 years’ experience writing for food and drink publications including The Grocer, Just-Drinks, World Drinks Report, and the Brewers’ Guardian. He worked at Carlsberg as a public relations consultant for six years where he helped launch Semper Ardens and the Jacobsen Brewhouse. He has contributed to Creating Nordic Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) with a chapter on Carlsberg. Currently writing about the history of lager in the UK.
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Ronald Atkins
Expertise: INDEPENDENT BREWERS
16 Mount Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1HL.
01273 486787 (w)(h)(f)
ronaldatkins1@aol.com
Subjects are beer, breweries and pubs in general, with a particular interest in brewpubs and the new small breweries. Author of GEM Beer. Co-editor of The New Imbiber.
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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. BGBW Beer Writer of the Year 2008.
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Dave Bailey
The Woolpack Inn, Boot, Holmbrook, Cumbria CA19 1TH.
019467 23230
dave@woolpack.co.uk
Website: www.woolpack.co.uk
Owner of the Woolpack Inn and Hardknott Brewery, chef and brewer. Authors a blog, hardknott.blogspot.com. Advises how to avoid making the same mistakes that he did when considering entering the licensed trade.
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Sally Bairstow
Expertise: FREELANCE
Sunnyside Cottage, Kings Lane, Slawston, Leics, LE16 7UF.
01858 555678 (w) (h) 07808 182259 (m)
sallybairstow@o2.co.uk
Freelance journalist, specialising in food and drink in the off- and on-trade. Former news editor on the Morning Advertiser and editor of BSKYB’s The Pub Channel.
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Martin Barfoot
Expertise: GRAPHICS
Castle Court, 41 London Road, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9RJ.
01737 735049 (w) 07973 674576 (m)
martin@brightsky.biz
Website: www.brightsky.biz
Freelance graphic designer and creative director of Brightsky Design. Specialising in advertising campaigns, book design, brand creation, brand guidelines and manuals, corporate identity, corporate and marketing brochures, exhibition design, logos, newsletters and magazines, packaging and websites. Has produced designs for the following: Advantage Publishing, British Guild of Beer Writers, Brewers’ Guardian, The Brewery Manual, Wells, Diageo, Hogs Back Brewery and Hop Back Brewery.
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Alex Barlow
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
ALL BEER, PO Box 4431, Sheffield S10 9DS.
01142 667333 (w) 07783 555335 (m)
alex@allbeer.co.uk
Website: www.allbeer.co.uk and www.allbeerfinder.com
Alex is a leading beer flavour presenter, consultant and Award-winning author of ALL BEER GUIDE. A qualified Master Brewer, he is passionately knowledgeable about beer styles, flavours, brewing and dispense. Alex exposes beer flavours with a distinctly involving and contemporary style. Enthusiastic and experienced at beer and food matching, he regularly presents beer and food tasting events for public and industry professionals, corporate groups and press. ALL BEER EXPERIENCE is a uniquely interactive educational guide to beer styles and flavours. ALL BEER FINDER.com is an innovative website improving Flavour, Discovery and Choice for consumers and trade.
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Jaclyn Bateman
Expertise: PR
50 Broughton Road, Fulham, London, SW6 2LA.
01754 880317 (w) 020 7736 4297 (h)(fax)
jaclynbateman@bateman.co.uk
Marketing Director for Bateman's Brewery, Lincolnshire.
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Paul Bayley
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
85 Meadow View, Rolleston, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 9AL.
01283 814943 (h) 07900 862652 (mobile).
Retired professional brewer (Head Brewer, Marston, Thompson and Evershed). Brewer of the Year 1996. Contributor and speaker on history of brewing and brewing technology with a particular focus on Burton. CAMRA member.
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Les Baynton
Expertise: POETRY
36 Eaton Court, Leaper Street, DERBY DE1 3NX.
01332 206734
lestb@o2.co.uk
Author of three books of pub poetry: Pub Poems, Beer Lines and Inn Verse, all sponsored by pubs/small brewers. Performs at pubs and beer festivals as The Pub Poet. Runs a small press – Pint Pot Poetry – www.pintpotpoetry.co.uk .
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Jeremy Blake
Expertise: EUROPE
Farm Cottages, Melton Highwood, Barnetby, North Lincolnshire, DN38 6AA
01472 255500 (w) 07905 568343 (m)
jezb@live.co.uk
Occasional brewer at Highwood Brewery ( www.tom-wood.com ) in North Lincolnshire, now mainly responsible for purchasing cask ales and producing a brochure for the company’s guest beer programme. Frequently contributes to US-based beer website www.ratebeer.com. Particular areas of interest: cask ale and the beers and breweries of Franconia, Belgium and Denmark.
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John Brice
Expertise: RADIO
King George V, 1 Prospect Row, Brompton, Kent ME7 5AL.
01634 812218 (h) 01634 842418 (pub) 07768 717545 (m)
johnkgvbrice@hotmail.co.uk
Works for BBC World Service radio news, organises beer festivals and runs two pubs. Winner of 1996 Guild award for the audio history of CAMRA’s first 25 years.
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Jos Brouwer
Expertise: EUROPE
Spoorstraat 20, NL-6971 CA Brummen, Netherlands.
+31 6 13947343
jos.brouwer@ebcu.org josbrouwer@gmail.com
Member of the National Executive of PINT for 17 years, 1989-2006; member of the board of editors of PINT Nieuws 1987-1998, editor-in-chief of PINT Nieuws 1988-1998. Still contributing to PINT Nieuws and the PINT website. EBCU delegate for PINT since the founding of EBCU in 1990, till 2008, when elected as vice chairman of EBCU. International beer judge — World Beer Cup, European Beer Star, various other national competitions, including Birra dell'Anno, Italy and CBOB judging with CAMRA. Specialisms: European beer styles, specially German/mid-European beer styles.
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Pete Brown
Expertise: FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, MARKETING, PUBS, TV
52 Bayston Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 7LT.
07941 123048 (w)(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.
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Rob Brown
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, FINANCE
Third Floor, Alma House, Alma Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0AX.
07990 915278 (m)
rob@advantagepublishing.co.uk
Deputy editor of Brewers' Guardian — www.brewersguardian.com — the international brewing industry magazine, covering all aspects of the industry from business matters and marketing through to the science and technology behind great beer.
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Don Burgess
Help Me Through the World, Boxbush Road, Coleford, Royal Forest of Dean, Gloucester GL16 8DN.
07768 296 360
gastronaut2001@yahoo.co.uk
Don has been at the mash tun of British micro brewing since 1990. He has been involved with the development of beers and the promotion of new beers on paper and in the glass for much of his time in the industry, winning awards from Camra, the Q awards, and the National Hop Association. As well as being an award winning brewer, Don is also a passionate about quality food and has enthusiastically worked on a local, national, and international basis to bring his insight and enthusiasm for British quality beers to a greater audience, while insisting that there is still plenty out there to learn about beer and food — and taking every "educational" opportunity that comes his way. Don is presently Technical Director of SIBA.
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Paul Buttrick
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
1, Ashworth Park, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9DE.
01565 650381 (h) 07770 415630 (m)
paul.buttrick@beerdimensions.com
Website: www.beerdimensions.com
Master brewer, previously Head Brewer at Boddingtons and Stella Artois Brewmaster. Currently freelance consulting through Beer Dimensions. Regular contributing feature writer in Brewer & Distiller International, and other journals, mostly on technical aspects of the industry. Interests include : Beer recipe/process development and optimisation, quality improvement, franchise and contract brewing, also a keen interest in beer tasting and is a regular judge at the World Beer Cup, as well as judging at the BIIA ( Brewing Industry International Awards) and GABF (Great American Beer Festival). One of only a handful of British brewers to have studied at the German brewing school at Munich-Weihenstephan. Is also a FIBD ( Fellow of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling).
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Rodney Challis
Expertise: FREELANCE
23 Ravensworth Road, Doncaster, Yorkshire DN1 2AS.
01302 323933 (w)(h)
rodneychallis@gmail.com
Writer on all aspects of beer production and consumption.
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Mike Chapple
39 Vale Lodge, Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool L9 1LR.
0151 521 7731 (h) 07724 338850 (m)
m_chap1958@yahoo.co.uk
Former news feature writer at the Liverpool Daily Post who also wrote a weekly Post column ‘At the Bar’, which turned the spotlight on pubs in the Merseyside/West Lancs area. Glenfiddich trophy winner in 2003 and 2005 and British Guild of Beer Writers trophy winner in 2003, 2006 and 2008.
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Phil Child
Expertise: EUROPE
Wilhelminalaan 58, NL-6042 EP Roermond, The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 475 350 187 Fax: +31 475 350 188
phil.child@hetnet.nl
Frequently broadcasts on all aspects of European beer industry and regularly contributes to various beer related publications. Has a special interest in the beers, breweries and cafés of the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg.
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Oz Clarke
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
34 Doria Road, London, SW6 4UG.
Daily Telegraph and the BBC's Food and Drink.
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Chris Cobbold
Expertise: FREELANCE
25 Valens House, Upper Tulse Hill, London, SW2 2RX.
020 8674 0556 (w)(h)
Occasional contributor to local press and organiser of the Battersea Beer Festival.
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Melissa Cole
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, PUBS, TASTING/SPEAKING
29 Esme House, Ludovick Walk, London SW15 5LJ.
07798 568400 (m)
melissa.cole@btopenworld.com
Blog: www.girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com
Website: www.lovebeeratborough.ning.com
Freelance writer/columnist/journalist/speaker/judge, specialising in all areas of the licensed trade, including beer appreciation, beer and food matching, tutored tastings and general industry commentary for the past 10 years. Partner in London’s only dedicated beer tasting business, lovebeer@borough, Melissa also contributes to the Guardian, Observer, Market Kitchen, Beers of the World, Imbibe, Eat Out, All Out Cricket and Sainsbury's Magazine to name but a few and is also consultant editor for on-line lifestyle guide www.stylebible.com.
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John Conen
Expertise: EUROPE
9 Scott Close, Farnham Common, Bucks SL2 3HT.
01753 645880 (h) 07718 536627 (m)
conen@btinternet.com
Author of "Bamberg and Franconia: Germany's Brewing Heartland"; specialises in the beers and breweries of this region. CAMRA member for over 30 years, occasional contributor to CAMRA publications.
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Joanna Copestick
Expertise: FREELANCE
2 Chene Mews, St Albans, Herts AL3 5QF.
01727 837926 (h) 07966 577262 (m)
jojocope@btinternet.com
Former Head of Publications for CAMRA, responsible for commissioning Roger Protz’s bestselling 300 Beers To Try Before You Die! and Jeff Evans’ The Book of Beer Knowledge and A Beer A Day. Now consultant Editor-at-Large for Jacqui Small LLP and a freelance writer and editor specialising in food, drink and interior design.
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Martyn Cornell
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, PUBS, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
179 Stanley Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8UF.
020 8288 0288 (h) 07950 291326 (m)
zythophile@blueyonder.co.uk
Blog: www.zythophile.wordpress.com
Freelance writer on beer styles and their development, beer and food matching, the pub and brewing businesses and the history of beer, brewing and pubs for titles ranging from Caterer to Country Life. Author of Amber Gold and Black (2008), a book about British beer styles; Beer: the Story of the Pint; Beer Memorabilia; and The Business Guide to Cask Ale. Winner, BGBW Beer Writer of the Year 2003, Bishops Finger Beer with Food award 2005, and Budweiser Budvar Travel Bursary 2000. Appearances on TV, radio and DVD talking about beer and beer history. Organiser of tutored tastings. Regular blogger on beer and pubs.
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Gary Corrin
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
Apartment 31, Block C Albion Mill, Pollard Street, Manchester, M4 7AL.
07808 097 001 (m)
Garycorrin1976@yahoo.co.uk
Currently working with Different World Drinks Company looking after a team of Beer Specialist in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow building an affinity within the trade through training and mentoring on brewing and food matching. Also spends time working closely with chefs to develop recipes with beer and with licensee’s and restaurateurs to write and produce more consumer friendly beer menus.
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Peter Coulson
Expertise: LICENSING
PO Box 900, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP3 0RJ.
01442 834900 (w) 01442 834901 (fax)
licensing@aol.com
Editor of Licensing Review and co-founder of the M&C Report, a bi-monthly analysis of the drinks industry. Legal Editor of the Morning Advertiser. Legal Consultant to the British Institute of Innkeeping, the British Institute of Club Management and the Club & Institute Union (CIU). Author of several books on licensing and club law (500 Points in Club Law published September 2006). Specialist in liquor licensing, pub tenancies and leases, entertainment and gaming laws, club management and whisky.
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Denis Cox
Expertise: PR
13 Eliot Vale, London, SE3 0UW.
020 8297 1599 (w) 020 8297 1601 (fax) 07860 719686 (mobile)
denis.cox@budvaruk.com
Public Relations Controller, Budweiser Budvar UK Ltd.
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Adam Croft
1 Chestnut Close, Westoning, Bedfordshire MK45 5LR.
07895 981781
adamcroft@gmail.com
Website: www.adamcroft.com
Runs a beerblog at adamcroft.com. Regional Young Members’s contact for CAMRA East Anglia, amateur brewer and freelance beer writer.
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Christine Cryne
Expertise: FREELANCE
10 Sneyd Road, London, NW2 6AN.
020 8452 6965 (h) 07932 736827 (mobile)
ccryne@supanet.com
Ex-Director of CAMRA (11 years) with posts of Great British Beer Festival Organiser (1992-1995), Strategy Director and Publications Director. Occasional contributor to What’s Brewing. Contributor to London Drinker and The Full Pint (both London CAMRA publications). Chair of CAMRA’s London tasting panel. Beer tasting presenter.
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John Cryne
Expertise: FREELANCE
10 Sneyd Road, London, NW2 6AN.
020 8452 6965 (h) 07802 174861 (mobile).
john.cryne2@googlemail.com
CAMRA National Chairman, 1989-1998. Great British Beer Festival organiser, 1984-1986. Contributor to CAMRA publications, providing feature articles to The Full Pint, CAMRA North London magazine, and also a column for Fuller’s house magazine, The Griffin.
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Glynn Davis
Expertise: FREELANCE
58 Sydney Road, London N8 0EX.
020 8340 2271 (w) (h) 07788 106752 (mobile).
glynn@busicomm.co.uk
Journalist: writes for The Financial Times, Guardian, Brewers’ Guardian, Beers of the World, The Grocer and Retail Week. Previously worked on Caterer & Hotelkeeper. Specialises in brewing business reporting.
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Des de Moor
Expertise: FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
PO Box 45322, London SE14 6XZ.
0781 605 8810 (m)
des@desdemoor.com
Writer on beer and walking, specialising in international bottled beers with particular expertise in the beers of Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands; other beer-related interests include beer culture and the relation between beer and place. Writes the regular bottled beer review column, pub walks and occasional features for BEER (CAMRA), features and regular pieces on specialist retailers for Beers of the World, contributions to various beer websites and to walk magazine (Ramblers' Association). Also a composer, performer and translator specialising in European musical cabaret and chanson.
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Mike Dennis
Expertise: OFF-TRADE
46 Collingwood Place, Station Avenue, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 1LU.
01322 611232 (w) 01932 223908 (h) 07711 960795 (mobile)
mike.dennis@nexusmedia.com
Website: www.talkingretail.com
A former editor of Supermarketing and Checkout magazines, now drinks editor of www.talkingretail.com, features editor of Independent Retail News and consulting editor of Harpers Wine & Spirit Gazette.
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Kamini Dickie
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
Braithwaite, London Lane, Cuckfield. West Sussex RH17 5BD.
01737 737 735721 (w) 07771 728668 (m)
kamini@advantagepublishing.co.uk
Website: www.brewersguardian.com
Responsible for commercial development at Brewers’ Guardian — the international brewing industry magazine. Formally head of Flavour & Innovation at BRI. An expert beer taster who loves fine beer.
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Mark Dorber
Expertise: CELLARMANSHIP, FOOD & BEER
The Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk IP18 6UA.
01502 722112
info@anchoratwalberswick.com
Specialist interests: History of beer styles, beer tasting, sensory evaluation, cellarmanship and beer and food matching.
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Jeremy Eaton
Vital Marketing, 14a Clarendon Ave, Leamington Spa, CV32 5PZ
01926 338811 (w) 01926 338500 (f)
jeremy@getvital.co.uk
Website: www.getvital.co.uk
Communications consultant to Marston’s PLC, including Marston’s Beer Company, Marston’s Pedigree, Marston’s Inns and Taverns (including Pitcher and Piano), Bank’s Beers, Marston’s FC, Marston’s Old Empire, Marston’s Pub Company, Jennings, Ringwood and Wychwood Breweries. Also Enterprise Inns PLC. Publications: Eagle Eye (circ 9000) and The Word (circ 17,000).
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Jeff Evans
Expertise: FREELANCE, OFF-TRADE, TASTING/SPEAKING
34 Crawford Place, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 1XG.
jeff.evans@virgin.net
Website: www.insidebeer.com
Editor of the website insidebeer.com. Editor of the Good Beer Guide 1991–98; author of the Good Bottled Beer Guide (seven editions); other books include A Beer a Day, The Book of Beer Knowledge and The CAMRA Beer and Pubs Quiz Book. Resident taster for tastingbeers.com and All About Beer magazine. Regular contributor to Beer, Off Licence News, Brewers’ Guardian, Restaurant, Great British Food and various other publications. Chairman of the judges for the International Beer Challenge. Hosts beer dinners and corporate tastings. Beer Writer of the Year 2001, winner of the Budvar Travel Bursary 2004 and presented with the Coors Brewers National Journalism Award 2008.
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Ruth Evans
Expertise: EDITORS
3 Brewery Road, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 4JT.
01902 422303 (w) 01902 795744 (f)
ruthevans@bfbi.org.uk
Head of trade association representing suppliers to the brewing industry. Produces annual directory and writes news pages in BDI and Food and Drink Business.
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Drew Ferguson
Expertise: EUROPE, FREELANCE, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE)
311 St. Louis Square. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2X 1A7.
+1 514 849 9635 (w)
ferguson@netaxis.ca
Author and freelance journalist. Contributor to English and French newspapers, beer periodicals and financial publications in North America and Britain. Consultant to the small brewing industry. Former Chairman CAMRA Canada. Economics Professor at McGill University. Analyst of global economic trends in brewing industry.
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Catharine Fergusson
Expertise: EDITORS
On Trade Media, The Ancient House, 2 Church Lane, London E17 9RW
020 8521 6262 (w)
cat@ontrade.co.uk
Website: www.ontrade.co.uk
Editor and publisher of The OnTrade Review, the unique guide to running a successful pub or bar, updated every year. The publication includes reviews, reports and profiles of quality beers, both British and imported, written by many of the world’s leading beer writers.
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Mark Fletcher
5 Middleton Close, Morley, Leeds, LS27 8BZ.
0113 349 6102 / 0779 313 2634
mark(at)real-ale-reviews.com
Blog: www.real-ale-reviews.com
Founder of Real-Ale-Reviews.com, a website dedicated to beer writing and providing accessible beer reviews and tastings for all beer lovers. The website is a co-operative venture based in Leeds, between Mark and friends Alan Walsh and local home brewer Sam Lanes. Mark is a footy mad digital marketer with a passion for beers from all around the world. Mark's hobbies (none cheap!) include — as well as drinking and writing about beer — photography, watching Leeds United and blogging about and online advertising.
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Chris Freer
Expertise: FREELANCE, MARKETING
13 Fosbrooke Drive, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 1HJ.
0115 8549349 (w) 07990 973267 (m)
cf@freerbutler-gds.co.uk
Website: www.freerbutler-gds.co.uk
Freelance journalist and partner in 'freerbutler graphic design' which provides bespoke promotional and marketing material to brewing companies, pub groups and drinks wholesalers/distributors. The company specialises in creating corporate magazines, and currently produces Castle Rock Times for Castle Rock/Tynemill group; Witch News for Moorhouse's; PAWS for a Pint for Elgood & Sons; Moles Brewery Underground for Moles Brewery; Gospel according to BOB for Wickwar Brewing Co; Bellringer Crawl for Abbey Ales; and Rhymney Review for Rhymney Brewery. Production services are supplied to National Bartender magazine, as well as production and advertising services to the SIBA Journal. Web sites created and maintained for Castle Rock, Moorhouses, Elgoods, Moles, Rugby Brewing Co and SIBA.
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Alastair Gilmour
Expertise: EUROPE, FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE
11 Southfield Gardens, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE16 4QR.
0191 488 4756 (h) 07930 144 846 (m)
alastair.gilmour@hotmail.com
Website: www.pressboxmedia.co.uk
Words and spaces on beer, breweries, pubs and people. Awarded the Guild's gold tankard in 2007, 2005, 2000 and 1998; silver tankard 2005; pewter tankard 1997; Budweiser Budvar travel bursary 2002. Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards regional writer 2007, 2004; Yorkshire beer and pub writer 1998.
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Barbara Gleiss
Expertise: EUROPE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
Lacknergasse 70/12, A-1170, Vienna, Austria.
+43 - (0)664 19 44 543 (m)
Barbara.Gleiss@gmx.at
Historian with a special interest in the public house and its customers in 19th- and 20th-century England. PhD thesis Women in Public Houses. A Historic Analysis of the Social and Economic Role of Women Patronising English Public Houses, 1880s – 1970s (University of Vienna). Extensive MA thesis: The public house during its free-licensing period 1830-1874, with a particular emphasis on London (University of Vienna).
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Brian Glover
Expertise: FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
26 Windsor Avenue, Radyr, Cardiff, CF15 8BY.
029 2024 3822 (w) 029 2041 9908 (h)
brian.glover@mediawales.co.uk
Writer on beer for newspapers and magazines. Author of many books including The World Encyclopedia of Beer (1997). Specialist in brewing history. Winner of Guild gold and silver tankards. Guild National Beer Writer of the Year 2004.
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Rob Gras
Expertise: PHOTOGRAPHY
Jacob Canisstraat 96, 6521 H X Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
+31 24 3227398 (h)(fax)
r.gras1@chello.nl
Professional photographer. Co-founder of PINT, the beer consumers' organisation, and for 14 years final editor of PINT-Nieuws. Pictures and articles published in magazines and newspapers.
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Alex Hall
Expertise: EDITORS, FREELANCE
1107 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY11222-6147, USA.
+1 917 957 7623 (m)
alex@nomadbrewing.com
Website: www.cask-ale.co.uk and www.gotham-imbiber.com
Craft beer journalist and event organiser specialising in British-style cask ale in America (regular cask columnist, Ale Street News;plus has two beer resource websites). 2006 President, the Malted Barley Appreciation Society. Founder and former co-editor, the Independent Imbiber.
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Tim Hampson
Expertise: FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
76 North Hinksey Lane, Botley, Oxford, OX2 0LY.
01865 245711 (h) 01865 790675 (f) 07768 614283 (m)
tim@infopub.co.uk
Chairman of British Guild of Beer Writers. 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.
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Michael Hardman
Expertise: FREELANCE, PUBS
01737 766345 (w) 07831 357501 (m)
hardmanmichael@msn.com
Writer on beer, brewing and pubs for newspapers and magazines. Publisher and editor of corporate publications. Joint founder in 1971 and chairman 1971-73 of CAMRA. Editor of the Good Beer Guide 1974-77, and What's Brewing 1972-77. Author of Beer Naturally, 1977. Founder secretary of the Guild 1988-89. MBE awarded in 2009 for services to the Campaign for Real Ale and the brewing industry.
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Lisa Harlow
Expertise: FREELANCE
Chestnut Cottage, Silver Lane, Marchington, Staffs ST14 8LL
01283 820776 (w) 07917 757860 (m)
lisa@lisaharlow.co.uk
Freelance writer and PR advisor for WaverleyTBS, Krombacher and Morrissey Fox.
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Richard Harvey
Expertise: PR
Plough Cottage, 1 East Hill, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RL
01580 763605 (w) (h) (f)
plough.cottage@btinternet.com
Public relations consultant with more than 30 years experience working for clients such as Shepherd Neame, Allied Domecq, British Beer & Pub Association, London & South and Kingfisher Lager.
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Peter Haydon
Expertise: EUROPE, FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, INDEPENDENT BREWERS, PUBS, TASTING/SPEAKING
68b Elmwood Road, London, SE24 9NR.
07973 465081
peter@meantimebrewing.com
Author and freelance journalist. Author of The English Pub: A History, reprinted as Beer & Britannia (Sutton). Author of Known Treasures & Hidden Gems, a guide to London pubs for CAMRA. Former editor of Which? Guide to Country Pubs. Former editor of The Grist and former General Secretary of the Society of Independent Brewers. Author of The London Pub (published 2003). Now responsible for marketing, PR and communications at Meantime Brewing Co. Ltd.
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Antony Hayes
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
1A Oast Lane, Tonbridge TN10 3AQ.
01732 366884/07775 728848
anthayes@btinternet.com
Website: www.anthayes.com
Homebrewer since 1988. Founding chairman of the Johannesburg Brewers. US Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) judge. Founder of the Homebrew Tri Nations competition between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Twice South African National Homebrewer of the Year. Resident in UK since 2005. Founding Chairman of London Amateur Brewers, affiliated to the Craft Brewing Association. Brewing articles published in Australia, South Africa, the US and UK, in publications such as Zymurgy and Brewers Contact.
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Paul Hegarty
Expertise: PR
18 Footherley Road, Shenstone, Staffs WS14 0NJ.
01543 481286 (h)
paul.heggers@googlemail.com
Head of Communications with Coors Brewers with responsibility for promoting beer through the Coors Beer Naturally Campaign and prior to joining the communications team worked in various technical roles within the company. Author of over 30 brewing publications and a regular speaker at industry conferences. A former chairman of the Burton Section of the Institute of Brewing, the Midland Section of the International Brewers Guild and the IOB Research Committee.
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John Hein
Expertise: FREELANCE
78 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, EH7 5JA
0131 539 0666 (w) 0131 557 0412 (h) 0131 539 2999 (fax) 07850 796727 (mobile)
johnhein@drink.demon.co.uk
Journalist. Publisher of Scots Gay Magazine.
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Steve Hobman
Expertise: FREELANCE, PR
3 Rock Cottages, Tilston, Cheshire, SY14 7DP.
01829 250502 (w) (h) (f) 07751 578605 (m)
shobman@rhinopr.freeserve.co.uk
Website: www.rhinopr.co.uk www.beertoursuk.com
Public relations consultant and freelance writer, specialising in independent producers of cask ale. PR consultant to Moorhouse's Brewery. Contributor to trade magazines and Northern consumer publications.
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Alastair Hook
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, FOOD & BEER
4E St Johns Park, London SE3 7TG.
020 8293 1111 (w) 07976 717612 (m)
alastair@meantimebrewing.com
Masterbrewer and owner of the the Meantime Brewing Company. Specialist brewer of Continental style beers. Former editor of The Grist and occasional contributor to trade magazines.
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Michel Hooper-Immins
Expertise: FREELANCE, PUBS
2 Waverley Court, Radipole, Weymouth, Dorset DT3 5EE.
01305 779705 (h) 0785 012 6349 (m)
dorsetfoodanddrink@btopenworld.com
Freelance West Country food and drink journalist who writes for the Dorset Magazine and Somerset Life Magazine, as well as occasional contributions to other national and regional publications. Occasional appearances on BBC South West and South television.
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Keith Hornby Priestnall
Expertise: PR
Middleton Farm Cottage, Collycroft, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 2GN.
01335 343454 (w) (h) 01335 346319 (f)
bdi4keith@aol.com
Journalist and personal columnist for Brewing & Distilling International. Brewing and distilling PR for Peel House Publicity. Exhibition Director for BDI Events and Promotions.
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Andrew Howitt
Expertise: EUROPE, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE)
Rua Felipe De Alcacova 59, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, SP 05416-020 Brazil.
(0055)11 8017 8175 (Brazil) 0115 9327541 (UK)
andre.rvr@consultant.com
Freelance journalist who has worked in Brazil for many years and is well informed on the traditional and emerging craft brewing sector in the country.
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Robert Humphreys
Expertise: PUBS
Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group at Westminster and of its sister group in the European Parliament, the British Beer Club.
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John Humphreys
Expertise: PR
Edwards Harvey, The Mill House, Hollingworth Court, Ashford Road, Maidstone, Kent ME14 5PP.
01622 604600 (w) 01622 604647 (f) 07793 294469 (m)
john.humphreys@edwardsharvey.com
Public relations consultant to Shepherd Neame.
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Simon J Jackson
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Institute of Brewing & Distilling, 33 Clarges Street, London W1J 7EE.
020 7499 8144
simon.jackson@ibd.org.uk
Website: www.ibd.org.uk
Executive Director of the IBD. Is also a qualified brewer and spent 26 years with Scottish & Newcastle in both brewing and sales. As Director of the IBD he co-ordinates all the activities of the IBD, including the Beer Academy — which works to raise awareness and understanding of beer amongst all beer lovers (and those still to be converted!). The IBD publishes the Brewer & Distiller International and Journal of the Institute of Brewing.
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Simon Jenkins
36 Allerton Grange Rise, Moortown, Leeds, LS17 6LH
0113 2690557 (h) 07791 333229 (m)
s.w.jenkins@ntlworld.com
Journalist. Writer of weekly pub and beer column for the Yorkshire Evening Post. Special interest in character of regional beers and breweries. Regional Press Gold Tankard winner 2004, silver in the Cains Finest Lager Award for Regional Journalism 2006.
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Gustav Jørgensen
Expertise: EUROPE, FOOD & BEER, PHOTOGRAPHY, TASTING/SPEAKING
Huldreveien 36 a 3042 Drammen, Norway.
Website: www.gustavjorgensen.no
Gustav has been writing about beer since 1997 in the food and drink magazine, Red & White and several other Norwegian newspaper and magazines. He frequently arranges beer tasting for companies. Author of the book: World’s Classical Beer Styles (2009, Bibere Forlag).
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Martin Kemp
Pitfield Brewery, New House Farm, Little Laver Road,Moreton, Essex CM5 0JE.
0845 833 1492 (w)
Specialist in British and imported bottled beers. British brewery and pub history, small and regional breweries, past and present, beer mat and label design.
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Sylvia Kopp
Schlossteichstr. 4, 34131 Kassel, Germany.
0049-561-3168468
sylviakopp@bierbotschaft.de
Website: www.bierbotschaft.de
Sylvia Kopp is a freelance beer writer since 2007. She works for consumer magazines as well as for professional audiences writing in German as well as in English. She holds a Diploma as beer-sommelier from Doemens Academy, a brewer school near Munich, gives sensory trainings and tasting and judges beers in international contests like World Beer Cup (USA) and European Beer Star (Germany).
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Iain Loe
Expertise: EUROPE, FINANCE
130a London Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1PQ.
01727 867201 (w) 01727 839586 (h) 01727 867670 (f) 07801 706607 (m)
iain.loe@camra.org.uk
Website: www.camra.org.uk
Research and Information Manager for CAMRA and regular contributor to What's Brewing. Interests include financial and industrial UK brewery news, EU legislation, foreign beers and breweries. Connections with beer societies in Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria, France, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Italy and Switzerland.
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Phil Lowry
Expertise: CELLARMANSHIP
phil@beermerchants.com
Freelance writer, web and print publisher and public house consultancy. Loves beer, having grown up in and owned a real freehouse. Regularly spending time as far away from the UK as an aeroplane can go; with regulars being northern and southern California, Denmark, New Zealand and Italy. Worked and lived around the world, serving in some of the finest establishments. Qualified Adult Education lecturer.
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Jo Lynch
Expertise: PR
Spring Cottage Offices, Spring Lane, Great Horwood, Bucks MK17 0QW.
01296 714745/ 07919 923394 (m)
jo@elliottpeople.com
Website: www.elliottpeople.com
Account Manager with leading industry marketing and PR agency Elliott People, working predominantly with the Independent Family Brewers of Britain and many of its 27 members on an individual basis. Also a member of the Beer & Women forum.
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Maurizio Maestrelli
Expertise: EUROPE
Viale Brianza 34/A, Milano, Italy 20127.
+39 02 26118102 (h) (f)
mmaestrelli@yahoo.it
Website: www.birragenda.blogspot.com
Food, wine and beer journalist. Winner of ‘Best article on Italian Craft Beer’ first edition 2007. Writer for Gambero Rosso, Il Mondo della Birra, Barbusiness, Il Luogo Ideale. Specialist in Italian microbreweries and pubs. Author of Birrerie d'Italia, first guide on pubs and brewpubs in Italy, and of Birra ai Fornelli, pubs cooking with beer.
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Christopher Marchbanks
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
18 Brizlincote Lane, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, DE15 0PR.
01283 561626(w)(h) 01283 561120(fax)
cjmarchbanks@aol.com
Journeyman brewer and brewing technologist. Author of technical brewing articles/reports in brewing trade magazines, brewing journals and conference reports. Specialist in design and operation of micro-breweries and pub brewing. Interest in the history of brewing, the brewing process and brewing literature. Fellow of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling.
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James McCrorie
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, HOMEBREWING
7 Station Terrace, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1RF.
01202 888 336 (h) 020 8675 0340 (w) 07899 722369 (m)
james@craftbrewing.freeserve.co.uk
Website: www.craftbrewing.org.uk
Private brewer (homebrewer). Founder of the Craft Brewing Association, the UK homebrewing organisation. Member of Durden Park Beer Circle. Publisher of Brewer’s Contact. Researcher into, and brewer of, historical beers, particularly Original IPA, London Porter and Scottish ales. Consultant to modern commerical breweries regarding original styles. Media contact for UK homebrewing activities. Committed to a vain attempt to have beer writers understand how beer is spoilt by being bottled in clear or green bottles, thereby turning the hop aroma into the smell of skunk, or in UK terms ‘wet dog’.
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Ben McFarland
Expertise: FREELANCE
77 Prebend Gardens, Chiswick, London, W6 OXT.
07980 622437 (m)
mcfarlandben@btinternet.com
Ben McFarland was the youngest ever winner of BGBW Beer Writer of the Year in 2004 at the age of 28 and he won the award again in 2006. A columnist for Time Out London and Theme magazine, Ben also writes for a host of drinks titles, national newspapers, magazines and — away from drink — writes about sport for Guardian Unlimited. Ben is also the co-author for Good Beer Guide West Coast USA, published by CAMRA. He is also experienced in hosting beer talks, beer and food matching dinners, corporate beer tastings, judging and has also appeared on radio and television on numerous occasions.
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Allan McLean
15 Mountcastle Bank, Edinburgh EH8 7TA.
07531 129892
Three times winner of the Guild's Gold Tankard of the Year award for his former column in The Scotsman. Currently editor of the Journal of the Scottish Brewing Archive.
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Christopher Middleton
Expertise: FREELANCE
23 Viewfield Road, London SW18 5JD.
020 8874 7643
CMidton@aol.com
Website: www.christophermiddleton.net
Freelance for the past two decades, writing mainly for Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Member of Guild of Food Writers, enthusiastic consumer of beer (idyllic recent holiday at the Carolus Brewery, in Mechelen, Belgium), and pub reviewer for Saturday Telegraph's Pint To Pint.
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Marcin Miller
Expertise: PR
Quercus Communications Ltd, Netherconesford, King Street, Norwich NR1 1PW.
01603 631108 (w) 07795 057881
marcin@qcltd.co.uk
Website: www.qcltd.co.uk
PR consultant for Harviestoun Brewery.
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Tony Millns
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
29 Church Road, Elsworth, Cambridge, CB23 4HU.
01954 268157
tmillns@waitrose.com
Contributor to CAMRA publications and academic journals. Specialist in brewery history, economics of the brewing industry, technical developments in brewing and home brewing. National Chairman of CAMRA 1982-85. Lecturer on beer.
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Graeme Mitchell
Expertise: FREELANCE, MARKETING, PUBS
Mitchell Krause Brewing, PO Box 86, Workington, Cumbria CA14 1DD.
07825 580694 (m)
graeme@mkbrewing.co.uk
Website: www.mkbrewing.co.uk
Beer Marketing Consultant and ‘British Brewed Beers of the World’ craft brewer.
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Laurent Mousson
Expertise: EUROPE
Barkenweg 7, CH-2503 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
+41 32 322 26 90 (h) +41 79 588 58 09 (m)
laurent.mousson@bluewin.ch
Contributor to various French-language beer-related publications and websites, judge at beer competitions in Switzerland, Italy and the UK, translation work (English and German into French), tutored tastings, seminars, notably the beer course at the Ecole suisse du vin. Vice-chair since 2003 of EBCU, the European Beer Consumers Union, with numerous appearances on French-speaking Swiss press, radio and occasionally TV. Strong on the Swiss and European beer scene in general, including Britain.
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Andy Neil
Am Rathaushof 6, 41334 Nettetal, Germany.
0049-(0)2157 810558
andy:@bier-mania.com
Website: www.bier-mania.com
Andy Neil, the owner of Bier-Mania! Cultural Beer Tours, operates small, exclusive tours throughout the European Beer Zones and the United States. He has designed a series of beer tour experiences, rich in history and culture, that exposes tour guests to a broad range of traditional beer styles.
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Larry Nelson
Expertise: EDITORS
The Croft, 156 Peperharow Road, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 2PW.
01737 735722 (w) 01737 735195 (f) 07961396966 (m)
larry@advantagepublishing.co.uk
Editor and publisher of Brewers’ Guardian (www.brewersguardian.com), the international brewing industry magazine; and from late-2005 editor and publisher of The Brewery Manual and Who’s Who, the authoritative annual guide to the UK alcoholic drinks trade. Publisher on behalf of the BGBW of the Beer Writers Yearbook.
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Rebecca Newman
Expertise: CELLARMANSHIP, PUBS
Bricklayer’s Arms, 32 Waterman Street, Putney, London SW15 1DD.
020 8789 0222 (w) 07711 245445 (m)
becky@bricklayers-arms.co.uk
Website: www.bricklayers-arms.co.uk
Landlady of Bricklayer’s Arms for the past three years. Created a real ale pub, which stocks the full range of Taylor’s beers and four handpumps that feature a lesser known brewery each week. Writes for London Drinker, What’s Brewing and Timothy Taylor Times.
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Susan Nowak
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE
32 Marine Road, Oreston, Plymouth PL9 7NJ.
01752 408659 (w) (h)
SueNowak@aol.com
Freelance beer and food writer specialising in pub food and cooking with beer, including origination of recipes and menus for beer meals, and matching beer to food. Writes for the national media; joint editor CAMRA’s Good Pub Food and Beer, Bed and Breakfast; author of recipe book The Beer Cook Book (Faber & Faber) and Pub Superchefs (CAMRA); is a regular columnist in What’s Brewing and Beer Magazine, Pub Chef and Morning Advertiser. Guild Silver Tankard winner 1995. Chairman of the Guild 1998-2000.
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Fran Nowak
Expertise: PHOTOGRAPHY
32 Marine Road, Oreston, Plymouth PL9 7NJ.
01752 408659 (w) (h)
SueNowak@aol.com
Freelance beer, food and pub photographer. Work published in What’s Brewing and Beer Magazine, Morning Advertiser, Pub Chef; photography for Susan Nowak’s Beer Cooking.
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Tony Nunn
74c Auckland Hill, West Norwood, London SE27 9QQ.
0208 761 2855 (w/h)
maximus@bibendus.org.uk
Website: www.bibendus.org.uk
Aka Maximus Bibendus, writer of 'Beer Matters' column for the Ringing World, the weekly journal for church bell ringers (beer being a subject dear to most bellringers' hearts).
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Paul Nunny
Expertise: MARKETING
5 Rawstorn Road, St Marys, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3JF.
07768 614065 (w)
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.
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Kate Oppenheim
Expertise: TV
76 Kenilworth Avenue, London, SW19 7LR.
kate@gabbani.co.uk
Freelance journalist specialising in contract publishing, copywriting and video production. Formerly Group Publisher of BSkyB’s business customer magazines and Channel Editor (and launch Editor) of BSkyB’s business-to-business television channel, The Pub Channel. Have held the post of Editor of several leading weekly publications: The Publican, Off Licence News and Retail Week.
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Timothy O'Rourke
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE), TASTING/SPEAKING
20 Downsmead, Baydon, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2LQ.
01672 540752 (w) 01672 540752(fax).
tim@brilliantbeer.com
Website: www.brilliantbeer.com
Technical Editor of the Brewers’ Guardian. A freelance writer and educator committed to enhancing the consumer’s enjoyment of beer. Specialist in recreating historical beer recipes and new product development, as well as exploring the origins and history of beer. Author of various articles and sections of books on brewing and related technology. Winner of the North American Guild of Beer Writers Feature, Profile Interview 1999.
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Glenn Payne
Expertise: EUROPE, OFF-TRADE, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE)
c/o 14,Winchester Walk, London SE1 9AG.
07800 879699 (m) 020 7407 3630 (f)
enyapag@aol.com
Beer buyer at Safeway from 1997 to 2004. Sales and Marketing Director at Meantime Brewing 2005 & 2006,share holder. Proprietor of Beer2Love and Beer-wolves-of-London. Part owner of Pangea imports and distribution and lovebeer@borough. Judge at Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup since 2002 and more competitions around the world. Slow Food London activist and London correspondent of The Celebrator.
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Helen Peacocke
Expertise: FOOD & BEER
Rose Cottage, 43 Acre End Street, Eynsham, Oxford OX29 4PF.
01865 882130
helen@hpeacocke.demon.co.uk
Food, beer and pub writer for The Oxford Times, The Oxford Mail, Witney Gazette and Herald series for 20 years. Now working freelance.Winner of Publican Media Award 1996 and Mansfield Media Award 1995.
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Barrie Pepper
Expertise: FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, PR, PUBS, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
58 Elmete Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 2NT.
0113 265 8595 (w)(h)
barrie.pepper@ntlworld.com
Freelance journalist and author (19 books). Member of Guild since 1990 and Chairman from 1991-1998. Winner of six Guild awards, including a special award and two silver tankards; also runner-up in the Glenfiddich drinks book award 2003. Columnist for Inn Speak and also working for SIBA on obtaining a protected geographical indication for Yorkshire beer.
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Steve Pereira
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, HOMEBREWING
73 Cecil Road, Rochester, Kent ME1 2HS.
07714 004591
stevechrisse@hotmail.com
Background in professional writing and editing, and in education. Administrator and regular article writer for www.ratebeer.com — home-brewing column in the new CAMRA Beer magazine.
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Jane Peyton
Expertise: FREELANCE, PUBS, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING
50 Rosebank, Holyport Road, London SW6 6LH.
0773 4049411 (m)
jp@jane-peyton.com
Website: www.jane-peyton.com
Beer Academy tutor. Freelance beer tasting host, beer and food matching host, public speaking, radio contributor and guest, pub events host, freelance journalist, author of several books including Pub Scene.
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George Philliskirk
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
4 Cherry Leys, Winshill, Burton-on-Trent, DE15 0DS.
01283 567977 (h) 07771 938471 (m)
george@beeracademy.org
Director of the Beer Academy. Writer for trade and technical brewing publications. Lecturer and conference speaker on technical issues and presenter of beer tasting events to trade and consumers. Passionate about beer!
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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.
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Chris (Podge) Pollard
Expertise: EUROPE, FREELANCE, PUBS
102 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0EA.
01245 354677 (h)
podgehome@blueyonder.co.uk
Website: www.podgebeer.co.uk
Full time organiser of Podge’s Belgian Beer Tours (Est. 1994), offering a varied programme of tours in Belgium and further afield for everyone from novice to expert. Co-author of Lambic(k)Land (2004), Around Bruges in 80 Beers (2006) and Around London in 80 Beers (2008). Over 25 years expertise in beer festival organisation and beer event management. Runs Belgian Beer Bars at major UK Beer Festivals. Specialist in pork scratchings and gourmet pickled eggs.
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Rupert Ponsonby
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, PR, RADIO, TV
R&R Teamwork, 754 Fulham Road, London, SW6 5SH
020 7384 1333 (w) 020 7384 0335 (f)
rupert@randr.co.uk
Hop lover; barley grower; founder member of the Beer Academy; winner of the President’s Award 2006 from the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group. Mission: To encourage restaurants, bars and pubs to create interesting beer lists. Never writes books.
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John Porter
Expertise: FINANCE, FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, PUBS
29 Byron Avenue Sutton, Surrey SM1 3RA.
07734 054389 (m) 0207 955 3707 (w)
john@apieandapint.com
Former Food Editor of The Publican, writing and editing regular beer and food features for the title. Available for freelance work two days a week. Also specialises in city and business news and features on the pub and leisure sector, and contributes features on beer and food matching, beer and the pub industry to a range of trade and consumer titles. Judging experience on The Publican Awards, The Publican Food & Drink Awards, Champion Beer of Britain, Champion Cider & Perry of Britain, Tesco Drinks Awards.
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Andrew Pring
Expertise: FREELANCE, PUBS, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
10 Knole Way, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3RS.
07711 844134
andrewpring100@btinternet.com
Freelance journalist and pubs and drinks consultant. Morning Advertiser editor 2000-09. Chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers 2003-05. Former editor of Accountancy Age, Contract Journal and Insurance Times, and worked on Caterer & Hotelkeeper and The Grocer. Editor of the Year (Britvic Food and Drinks Awards) 2002.
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Roger Protz
Expertise: FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, PUBS, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
139 Charmouth Road, St. Albans, AL1 4SG.
01727 834111 (h)(fax) 07785 396178 (mobile)
roger.protz@virginmedia.com
Website: www.beer-pages.com
Founder and past Chairman of the Guild. Two gold and five silver tankard awards. Lifetime Achievement Award 2003. Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year 1977 and 2004; shortlisted 2007. All Parliamentary Beer Club Beer Drinker of the Year 2004. Contributor to What's Brewing, Beers of the World, Morning Advertiser, Guardian, Radio 4 Food Programme. European Editor All About Beer (US). Editor (16 editions) Good Beer Guide. Most recent book Beer Lovers’ Guide to Cricket (CAMRA Books) May 2007 and Little Book Of Beer (CAMRA Books), August 2007.
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David Quain
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Red-ts Ltd, 9 Wheatfield Court, Willington, Derbyshire DE65 6PT.
01283 702218 (w) 07808 096623
david.quain@red-ts.com
Director at red-ts — www.red-ts.com — a technical consultancy for the brewing industry. Co-author of the book Brewing Yeast and Fermentation (now in paperback) and regular contributor to the Brewers’ Guardian together with the Brewer & Distiller International. Also (part-time) professor at the International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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Jonathan Ray
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE
16 Park Crescent, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 3HA.
07944 278 567
johnnyray4@hotmail.com
Author and drinks writer. Wine and beer correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and frequent contributor to the Spectator and Imbibe, writing on beer, travel and other subjects. Also founding co-editor of Scoff!, a free-to-receive email newsletter on good food and drink (see www.gastronomail.com to subscribe). Winner of the British Guild of Beer Writers Award for National Journalism 2005 & 2007.
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Mark Reid
Expertise: FREELANCE
102 Leeds Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8HB.
01423 871750 (w)(h) 01423 874751 (fax) 07711 264019 (mobile)
mark.reid@innway.co.uk
Website: www.innway.co.uk
Freelance writer. Author of The Inn Way... series of walking guidebooks. Specialist areas include walking/outdoor activities in the north of England as well as traditional pubs.
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Samantha Robinson-Wildman
The Coastguard, The Bay, St Margarets Bay, Kent CT15 6DY.
01304 851010
thecoastguard@talk21.com
Website: www.thecoastguard.co.uk
Writer and broadcaster specialising in food history, British cheese and real ales. If you need a girl’s perspective on one of the last male bastions that is the humble pint — I’m your blonde.
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Jeff Rosenmeier
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, CELLARMANSHIP, HOMEBREWING, PR
Lovibonds Brewery Ltd, Rear of 19-21 Market Place, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 2AA.
01491 576 596 (w) 07761 543 987 (m)
jeff@lovibonds.com
Website: www.lovibonds.com
Jeff is Founder and Chief Zymurgist at Lovibonds Brewery. He has contributed technical and beer travel articles to Brewers Contact (Craft Brewing Association) and Zymurgy (American Homebrewers Association). Jeff is also responsible for Lovibonds web development and other PR initiatives. Jeff started home brewing in the USA in 1996 after being introduced to the hobby by a friend. In 2005 he packed in a lucrative IT career to follow his passion instead of his pension.
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Dominic Roskrow
Expertise: EDITORS, FREELANCE
3 Hardingham Street, Hingham, Norfolk NR9 4JB.
07721 374397
dominic@true-spirit.co.uk
Consultant editor to Beers of the World, Paragraph Publishing. Freelance drinks writer and consultant. Winner of the Whitstable Bay Organic Brewed Sustainability Writing Award 2006.
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Don Russell
Expertise: EUROPE, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE)
PMB 120, 8500 Henry Ave., Philadelphia, PA, USA.
+1 215 500 4627
don@joesixpack.net
Website: www.joesixpack.net
Author of the weekly Joe Sixpack beer reporter column in the Philadelphia Daily News. Winner of more than 20 Quill & Tankard awards from the North American Guild of Beer Writers, two-time American beer journalist of the year. Author of Joe Sixpack’s philly Beer Guide (Camino Books) and Merry Christmas Beer: The Cheeriest, Tastiest, Most Unusual Holiday Brews (Rizzoli USA). Co-founder and organiser of annual Philly Beer Week, with more than 200 separate events celebrating the best beer-drinking town in America.
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Simon Russell
Expertise: FREELANCE, PR
Media Centre, Abbeywood Business Park, Emma-Chris Way, Filton, Bristol BS34 7JU.
01179 066 519 (w) 07879 402 145 (m)
simon@swns.com
Websites: www.insidemedia.uk.com www.swns.com
Formerly ran PR for Constellation/Matthew Clark now runs Inside Media, a PR agency that supports several drinks organisations, businesses and brands. Also writes on beer and other drinks for SWNS (press agency) and occasionally freelance. The spokesman for the National Association of Cider Makers and works with Sharp’s Brewery.
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Kelly Ryan
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Coach and Horses, Sheffield Road, Dronfield SE18 2GD.
07917 006 499
kelly@thornbridgebrewery.co.uk
A brewer by trade. Currently brewery manager at Thornbridge Brewery. Lives above Coach and Horses, the Thornbridge brewery tap, which gives an unique perspective of the cask ale that we brew. Formally trained beer taster and international beer judge.
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Conrad Seidl
Expertise: EUROPE
Columbusgasse 20, A-1100 Vienna, Austria.
+43 1 531 70 186 (w) +43 1 604 49 51(h)(f) +43 676 30 20 89 (m)
Bierpapst@gmx.net
Website: www.bierpapst.cc
Author of several books on beer styles, brewery-related travels, drinking cultures and brewing history. Conrad Seidl's Bierkatechismus was published in German, Portuguese and Italian. Regular columns on beer in Getränkefachgroßhandel and Falstaff. Frequently published in German and American magazines, including Penthouse, All About Beer and Brewers’ Guardian. Seminars for connoisseurs and marketers. Founder of Kampagne für Gutes Bier (KGB) and editor of Conrad Seidl’s Bierguide, the good beer guide to Austria.
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Gill Shaffer
Expertise: PR
Mint Communications, 10 Broadbent Close, 20-22 Highgate High St, N6 5JW
020 8347 8206 (w) 020 8342 9975 (f) 07958 989124 (m)
gill@mintcomm.co.uk
Website: www.mintcomm.co.uk
Was for over five years head of public relations for Fullers. Set up Mint Communications in 2002 specialising in a broad range of drinks and beer products including mainstream and micro-breweries.
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Steve Sharples
Expertise: PHOTOGRAPHY
54 Platts Crescent, Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 4YZ.
01384 376557 (w)(h) 0870 056 1113 (fax)
steve.sharples@mac.com
Freelance photographer and writer.
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David Sherman
Expertise: FREELANCE
27 Pearce Manor, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9XH.
07748 392965 (w)(h)
david.sherman@dvla.gsi.gov.uk
Journalist. Interests: pub preservation; brewery buy-outs; mild; descriptive and analytical tasting. Contributor to several CAMRA guides and newsletters, and to local press and radio. Organiser of CAMRA’s Champion Beer of East Anglia competition. National Stouts and Porters Co-ordinator for CAMRA.
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Ros Shiel
Expertise: PR
44 Hurst Road, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 2EP.
01403 267971(h) 07841 694137 (m)
ros@shielcomms.co.uk
Website: www.shielcomms.co.uk
Freelance PR consultant specialising in the drinks sector. Current clients include Brakspear Pub Company, the Society of Independent Brewers and the Intelligent Choice report on cask ale. Also established the Beer & Women Forum, an industry group aiming to improve beer’s appeal to women. Previously worked on Beautiful Beer, Scottish & Newcastle Retail, Matthew Clark, Guinness and Canadian Club.
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John Simpson
Expertise: EUROPE, PUBS, TASTING/SPEAKING
56 Greenacres, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 5WY.
Please contact via website.
See website
Website: www.simpson.uk.com/beers
Operates website and email newletter (see above) that covers whole world but specialises in Belgian and European beers; gives talks; runs tastings; arranges field trips to Belgium.
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Kelly Smith
Expertise: FREELANCE
36 Browett Road, Coventry CV6 1AZ.
02476 597615 (h) 07786 737363 (m)
kel.e@btinternet.com
Freelance feature writer. Contributor to the Morning Advertiser, Off Licence News, and internal trade publications.
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Fiona Smith
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, MARKETING, TASTING/SPEAKING
The F&B Partnership H/O, The Engine House, Shenstone Station, Station Road, Shenstone, WS14 0NW.
+44 (0) 844 800 2068 (w) +44 (0) 7768 721455 (m)
fiona@fandbpartnership.com
Website: www.fandbpartnership.com
An experienceed marketer, consultant , speaker, taster and judge, Fiona is MD of the F&B Partnership, and together with business partner Marc Stroobandt Master Beer Sommelier, F&B are leaders in unlocking sensory and experiential food and drink marketing with a pioneering new learning model in beer appreciation and beer education. F&B regularly work on live TV, Radio and Press, both in Europe and internationally at events including Aspen Food and Wine, Taste Festivals, Culinary Institute of America, and run training, events and educational programmes on behalf of our international clients both here in the UK, Europe and the USA.
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Norman Spalding
Sunnydene, Parfitts Hill, Bristol BS5 8BN.
0117 907 3798 (h)
normanspalding@blueyonder.co.uk
Contributor to numerous CAMRA newsletters over the years, but currently writing for Pints West.
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Joe Stange
Expertise: EUROPE, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE)
Avenue Moliere 238, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
+32 (0)2 343 6148
Website: www.thirstypilgrim.com
Freelance writer and editor contributing to various magazines. Specializing in Belgian ales, Brussels, American craft beer, and beer travel in general. Co-author of Around Brussels in 80 Beers, published by Cogan & Mater.
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Bruce Stevens
Expertise: EDITORS
52 Glenhouse Road, Eltham, London, SE9 1JQ.
020 8859 4300 (h)
bruce@glen-house.co.uk
Freelance writer and editor, specialising in the production and marketing of beers and spirits. Editor of the Brewing & Distilling International magazine for over 30 years. Produces ‘Supplylines’ newsletter for the BFBi.
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Marc Stroobandt
Expertise: CELLARMANSHIP, EUROPE, FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, OVERSEAS (NON-EUROPE), RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
The F&B Partnership H/O, The Engine House, Shenstone Station, Station Road, Shenstone, WS14 0NW.
0844 800 2068
Marc@fandbpartnership.com
Marc Stroobandt is Master Beer Sommelier and Director of the F&B Partnership, global leaders in unlocking sensory and experiential food and drink marketing and training. Marc has considerable experience and expertise in live TV and radio both in Europe and the USA, and is renowned for engaging seminars, talks and training bringing a ‘rock and roll’ approach to beer appreciation and beer and food education. Marc is guest speaker at Aspen Food and Wine, Culinary Institute of America, Taste Festivals, Loose Goose Wine Festival and many more. Marc is also an honorary knight of the Order of the Mascher (awarded by the Chevalerie du Fourquet des Brasseurs of the Confederation of Belgian Brewers). For more information please visit www.fandbpartnership.com.
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Nigel Tarn
3 Church Street, Skirwith, Penrith, Cumbria CA10 1RG.
01768 88321 07903745004
nigel.tarn@btinternet.com
Freelance journalist and fulltime drinks marketeer, having worked for global giants, microbreweries and distilleries. Specialising in British microbreweries and brewing, independent breweries, world beers, ciders, spirits, history of brewing and the great British pub.
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Arthur Taylor
Park House, Milnrow Road, Shaw, Oldham, Lancashire, OL2 8BL.
01706 846126 (w)(h)
arthur_r_taylor@hotmail.com
Author of Pub Games (Mayflower 1976), The Guinness Book of Traditional Pub Games (1992) and Played at the Pub, in the Played in Britain Series, published by English Heritage (2009). The Guinness book was highly commended in the Guild Awards 1992. His CAMRA Good Beer Guide to Northern France (1998) was awarded the Guild’s Travel Bursary. Glenfiddich Drinks Writer of the Year 2001 for work for What’s Brewing.
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Keith Thomas
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Brewlab, University of Sunderland, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD.
0191 515 2535 (w) 0191 514 4746
keith@brewlab.co.uk
Website: www.brewlab.co.uk
Technical writer for trade and popular press, including The Brewer International, Zymurgy, international publications, CAMRA publications and local newspapers. Specialisms include brewing technology, yeast and brewery microbiology, beer purity, flavour analysis and history of brewing technology. Co-ordinator of training courses in brewing, dispense and flavour analysis. Winner of the Travel Bursary in the Guild's Beer Writer of the Year Awards 2001.
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Guy Thornton
Expertise: EUROPE
Postbus 6605, 1005 EP Amsterdam, Netherlands.
+31 (0)20 6766569 (ISDN - all lines: phone, fax, w/h) +31 (0)6-51.088.220 (gsm)
guy.thornton@inter.nl.net guy.thornton@MCR 1.poptel.org.uk
Journalist, translator, writer and broadcaster. Articles on beer (and food & wine) for several Dutch and Belgian papers and magazines. Contributor in-flight magazines, What’s Brewing, Wine & Spirit International, New Statesman, Brewers' Guardian. Specialist breweries and brewing industry in The Netherlands, Belgium and (Northern) Europe; also on cooking with beer. Lectures on beer styles and tastes.
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Adrian Tierney-Jones
Expertise: EUROPE, FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, INDEPENDENT BREWERS, PUBS, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING
Woodcote, 2 Jury Road, Dulverton, Somerset TA22 9DU.
01398 324314 (w)(h) 07807 925071 (m)
tierneyjones@btinternet.com
Website: www.beeralewhatever.com
Blog: www.maltworms.blogspot.com
Freelance journalist whose work appears in the Daily Telegraph (regular reviews for the Pint to Pint column), All About Beer, the Field and Coast amongst many others. Books: West Country Ales, Pubs for Families and The Big Book of Beer ; also contributor to 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. Winner of the 2007 Budweiser Budvar John White Travel Bursary and silver award winner in the Guild’s Award for National Journalism 2006 and 2008. General Editor of 1001 Beers To Try Before You Die, due out spring 2010.
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Dale Tomlinson
Expertise: GRAPHICS
170 Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LW.
01223 573669
daletomlinson@dial.pipex.com
Freelance graphic designer specialising in publication design/typography: books, magazines, brochures and newsletters etc; also logos, corporate identity, branding, marketing/publicity items and websites. Has designed books and campaign material for CAMRA, Cogan & Mater (see Tim Webb) in addition to books and logos for many other Guild members.
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Sally Toms
Expertise: EDITORS
3 Colton Road, Harlingford, Norfolk NR9 5HS.
07828 095252
sallyisnow@gmail.com
Editor of Beers of the World magazine 2006-2009.
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Paul Travis
Long High Top, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 7PF.
01422 844437 07736 174 505
paul@beerinnprint.co.uk
Website: www.beerinnprint.co.uk
Retailing of beer books on all aspects of beer, brewing and pubs via Beer-Inn Print and distribution of magazine for the beer/brewery ‘collector’ (the New Imbiber); booksale manager for the Brewery History Society.
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Ruth Tyrrell
Expertise: FREELANCE, MARKETING, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBS
c/o noSWeat journalism, 16 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0AN.
07854 079540 (m)
beerblogger@hotmail.com
Website: www.beertester.blogspot.com
Author of established beer site, Ruth’s Real Ale Reviews, regular column in local magazine and first book in production. CAMRA’s National Mild Co-ordinator responsible for Mild Month.
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Georgina Wald
Expertise: PR
5 Florence Street, London, NW4 1QG.
07831 299801 (m)
georgina@thehurns.plus.com
Former Publican journalist and ex-PR manager for BII and Fuller’s. Now working for Dominos Pizza as Corporate Communications Manager.
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Rupert Watts
Expertise: FREELANCE
26 Nore Farm Avenue, Emsworth, Hampshire PO10 7NA.
01243 389957 (w) (h) (f)
randcwatts@tiscali.co.uk
Freelance journalist and former deputy editor of The Publican.
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Tim Webb
Expertise: EUROPE
PO Box 1027 (Burwell), Cambridge CB25 0WR.
07966 032638 (m)
BelgiumGBG@aol.com
Website: www.booksaboutbeer.com
Specialist writer on Belgian beer and owner/managing editor of Cogan & Mater Limited, a small publishing and bookselling company in Cambridge, UK. Compiler and editor Good Beer Guide Belgium (six editions 1992-2009), lead author 100 Belgian Beers to Try Before You Die! (2008) and LambicLand (Two editions 2004-09). Columnist Beer Advocate (US). Publisher of LambicLand plus Around London in 80 Beers (2008), Around Brussels in 80 Beers (2009) and Around Bruges in 80 Beers (2006 & 2009).
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Steve Wellington
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
The Nook, Pipehay Lane, Draycott in the Clay, Derbyshire, DE6 5BY.
07836 794974 (w) 01283 820698 (h) 01283 820859 (fax) 07836 794974 (mo).
wellie@dsl.pipex.com
Head Brewer of the White Shield Brewery of Burton upon Trent with an interest in microbreweries, brewing history and deceased brands. Frequent contributor of articles to licensed trade press and associated publications.
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John Westlake
Expertise: FREELANCE
26 Redcliffe Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham, NG3 5BW.
0115 9623973 (w)(h)
Regular contributor to CAMRA publications. Winner of the Budweiser Budvar travel bursary for 2003 and the Judges Award for Excellence 2006.
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David Wickett
Expertise: FOOD & BEER
23 Alma Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S3 8SA.
0114 249 4800 (w) 0114 263 0090 (h) 0114 249 4803 (fax).
Dave@Wickett.co.uk
Micro-brewery owner and freehouse pub owner. Contributor to numerous trade and CAMRA publications.
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Steve Williams
27 Parkfield Avenue, East Sheen, London SW14 8DY.
0208 878 1391 (h) 07852 260955 (m)
beerjustice@aol.com
Blog: www.beerjustice.blogspot.com
CAMRA Regional Director for Greater London (2004-2009). Contributor to various CAMRA and local publications. Judge at Great American Beer Festival and various CAMRA and SIBA competitions. Member of CAMRA’s London tasting panel.
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