For the first time in nearly 20 years, a national broadsheet newspaper has dedicated a regular beer column to sit alongside its wine and restaurant pages.
Pete Brown, former chair of the British Guild of Beer Writers, 4-times winner of the Guild’s Beer Writer of the Year Award and author of 13 books about beer, cider and social history, will write a weekly column for the Sunday Times Magazine, exploring topical issues around beer and pubs and making ‘best buy’ recommendations to the magazine’s readership.
The Sunday Times is the UK’s top selling quality newspaper, both hard copy and digitally.
Brown says “It’s great that beer is getting a place around the table in the same way that wine does, enabling great stories and interesting beers to get a much broader mainstream audience. Beer is such an important part of British culture but as we know, the challenges of making great beers and getting them in front of people is more difficult than ever. If I can do even a bit to showcase breweries, bottle shops and outlets, whether that’s pubs, taprooms or pubs, I’m pleased to be able to do so. Hopefully other media will take note and commission more beer writing across the board.’
Brown’s inaugural column featured his choice of 10 favourite pubs across the UK, followed by alternatives to Guiness in response to the recent shortages and will look at British lagers, Belgian beers and a selection of beers to try from Waitrose in its first few weeks.
For breweries and PRs to get in touch with Pete, please see the British Guild of Beer Writers website for his contact details, as well as details of other beer writers across the UK.
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Pete Brown’s website
British Guild of Beer Writers
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