Jacopo Mazzeo

• Writer
• Events and public speaking
• Beer Sommelier
• Beer judge
• Consultant

• South East

• Beer judging experience eg CAMRA/SIBA competitions
• Beer tasting training
• Professional Beer Sommelier Diploma
• International Beer Challenge Judge
• Associazione Degustatori Birra Professional Beer Sommelier Diploma

• CAMRA
• Guild of Beer Sommeliers

• Food matching
• Cooking
• Music
• Wine
• On-trade
• Off-trade
• Photography
• Social media
• FMCG
• Travel and tourism
• Historical interest

What is the one thing you'd like to tell visitors to the Guild's website?

Beer consultant, writer and international judge. Best Young Beer Writer of the Year 2016. Head Sommelier at THE PIG Hotel in Brockenhurst.

What you can offer as a writer/beer lover?

I am a freelance Beer Consultant, accredited Beer Sommelier, and award-winning Beer Writer. I am also an International Beer & Wine Judge and a member of the Board of Directors of the British Guild of Beer Writers. Since 2016 I am the Head Sommelier at THE PIG Hotel in Brockenhurst (Limewood Group). I developed my expertise by writing for magazines, tutoring tastings and organising events. I am particularly passionate about travel and consider beer as the ideal mean to understand local cultures. This helps me to achieve a better understanding of the beer sector as a whole, and provides me with the necessary skills to think outside the box, which translates into high-standard service to my clients. Besides my involvement in the beverage sector, I am also a musicologist. I was awarded BA and MA at the University of Bologna (Italy) and the PhD at the University of Southampton (2016).

What do you like most about being a Guild of Beer Writers member?

I enjoy to be part of an association where people, despite their different approaches and diverse backgrounds, all work towards the common goal of promoting beer as a quality product.