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.

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

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.

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

Beer correspondent Good Food Live, contributor to the Sky Pub Channel, publications include What’s Brewing, Morning Advertiser, Brewers Guardian, Pub Business, The Guardian, The Independent and American Brewer. Specialist knowledge of the image of beer, beer and food, developing beer menus, and the structure of the brewing and pub industry and author of Room at the Inn.

Ben McFarland
Expertise: FREELANCE
77 Prebend Gardens, Chiswick, London, W6 OXT.
07980 622437 (m)
mcfarlandben@btinternet.com

Ben is a freelance drinks and travel writer who regularly dances for beans at the behest of a wide range of consumer and trade titles including The Guardian, Independent on Sunday, London Lite, Theme Magazine, Beers of the World, Wine & Spirit, Publican, Off Licence News, Drinks Business, Delicious and numerous other publications he can't remember off the top of his head. Although he writes principally about beer, and was named the youngest ever Beer Writer of the Year in 2004 (he followed this up by winning again in 2006), Ben has a professional and personal interest in all life-enhancing liquids. He lives in London. Also winner of the Award for National Journalism 2006.

Larry Nelson
Expertise: EDITORS
The Croft, 156 Peperharow Road, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 2PW.
01737 735722 (w) 01737 735195 (f) 01483 417559 (h) 07961396966 (mobile)
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.

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.

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, Class, the Daily Telegraph, 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. 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.