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
Head brewer and Director at the Black Sheep Brewery plc. Writes technical articles for brewing magazines plus humorous ones for Eww ‘r’ baa…red. Photo manager Varsity, 1967 — www.clarepictures.me.uk. See also www.workedwonders.org — a personal account of working for Ind Coope in the 1960s and 70s. Currently completing a digital video of Black Sheep Brewery’s developments 2003/06.
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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 Workshire, 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.
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Yvette Bacon
Expertise: PUBS
28 Roundham Close, Kidlington, Oxon OX5 1SZ.
01865 436269 (h) 07702 885466 (m)
Partner in Barrie Pepper’s company Alewords. Mainly research work but have prepared copy for CAMRA’s pub crawl books.
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Sally Bairstow
Expertise: FREELANCE
Sunnyside Cottage, Kings Lane, Slawston, Leics, LE16 7UF.
01858 555678 (w) (h) 07808 182259 (m)
sally@bairstowgb.fsnet.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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Alex Barlow
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, MARKETING, TASTING/SPEAKING
29 Westbourne Road, Sheffield S10 2QQ.
01142 667333 (w) (f)
alexgbarlow@mac.com
Alex is a master brewer, beer sommelier, freelance beer writer and presenter. He is passionately knowledgeable about beer and the brewing and retail business. As the UK’s foremost beer flavour trainer, he gets inside beer with a unique, contemporary style. Enthusiastic and experienced at beer and food matching, he has developed books, articles and presented hundreds of events for industry professionals and customers, trade and lifestyle press.
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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 (w)(h)
les.baynton@tesco.net
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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Fiona Beckett
Flat 2, 71 Lower Redland Road, Bristol BS6 6SP.
0117 946 7949
fiona@foodandwinematching.co.uk
Website: www.foodandwinematching.co.uk
Freelance food and drink writer specialising in food and drink matching, including beer and cooking with beer. Author of 17 books including the award-winning An Appetite For Ale (CAMRA 2007), Sausage And Mash, Meat And Two Veg and the student cookbook series Beyond Baked Beans. Winner of the Bishop’s Finger Award for Beer and Food Writing 2007 along with Will Beckett.
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Will Beckett
Underdog Group c/o Marquess Tavern, 32 Canonbury Street, London N1 2TB.
020 3006 7639 (w) 07786 262335 (m)
will@underdog-group.com
Author of beer books, occasional TV ‘beer appearance’ and forthcoming blogs on Observer website. Also writes about the bar industry in general.
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Jeff Bell
jeffreyjohnbell@gmail.com
Website: www.stonch.blogspot.com
Author of popular website Stonch’s Beer Blog. Contributions to deforestation include articles for What’s Brewing and the London Drinker. Works with publicans, independent brewers and distributors to improve public awareness of quality brewing.
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Jeremy Blake
Expertise: EUROPE
Farm Cottages, Melton Highwood, Barnetby, North Lincolnshire, DN38 6AA
01472 255500 (w) 07905 568343 (m)
jez@blake1.freeserve.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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Keith Bott
Titanic Brewery Co Ltd, Unit 5 Callender Place, Burslem, Stoke on Trent ST6 1JL.
01782 823447 (w) 07831 235768 (m) 01782 812349 (f)
keith@titanicbrewery.co.uk
Managing Director of Titanic Brewery and President of Society of Independent Brewers. Contributes to SIBA Journal and other trade papers.
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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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Duncan Brodie
East Anglian Daily Times, 30 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1AN.
01473 324671 (w)
duncan.brodie@eadt.co.uk
Business editor and beer columnist for the EADT, the regional morning newspaper for Suffolk and north Essex. Areas of interest include beer history and beer with food. Runner-up in the BGBW Award for Regional Journalism 2007.
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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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Ted Bruning
Expertise: FREELANCE, INDEPENDENT BREWERS, OFF-TRADE, PUBS
32 Elizabeth Way, Gamlingay, Sandy, Beds SG19 3NH.
01767 650261 (h)
livinglocal@tiscali.co.uk
Editor, What's Brewing (1999-2006). Former News Editor, Morning Advertiser. Regular columnist, Radio 4's Home Truths (2000-2002). Beer specialist, Asda website. Contributor: Beers of the World, Heritage Magazine, JD Wetherspoon Magazine, SIBA Journal, The Publican, Morning Advertiser. Books: Historic Pubs of London, Historic Inns of England, London By Pub, Brewery Breaks, The Microbrewer's Handbook. Editor: CAMRA Guide to Real Cider (1997); The Publican's Manual (1997-9). TV: The Thirsty Traveller, Caprice's Travels.
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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@tiscali.co.uk
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. Keen interest in beer tasting and regular judge at the World Beer Cup, as well as judging 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.
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Rodney Challis
Expertise: FREELANCE
23 Ravensworth Road, Doncaster, Yorkshire, DN1 2AS.
01302 323933 (w)(h)
rodneychallis@googlemail.com
Writer on all aspects of beer production and consumption.
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Mike Chapple
Liverpool Daily Post, PO Box 48, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB.
0151 472 2564 (w)
mikechapple@dailypost.co.uk
News feature writer at the Liverpool Daily Post and also writes a weekly Post column ‘At the Bar’, which spotlights pubs in the Merseyside/West Lancs area. Glenfiddich trophy winner in 2003 and 2005 and British Guild of Beer Writers trophy winner in 2003 and 2006.
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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 trade press.
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Melissa Cole
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, TASTING/SPEAKING
29 Esme House, Ludovick Walk, London SW15 5LJ.
07798 568400 (m)
melissa.cole@btopenworld.com
Blog: 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.
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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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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, and the history of beer, brewing and pubs for magazines and newspapers. Author of 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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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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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 7804 5681 (w) 020 8452 6965 (h) 07802 174861 (mobile).
john.cryne@uk.pwc.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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Emma Currin
Expertise: PR
Gable House, 18-24 Turnham Green Terrace, London W4 1QP.
0208 996 5062 (w) 07753 838490 (m)
emmacurrin@leisurepr.co.uk
Background includes working in public relations departments for various pub companies as well as Corporate Communications Manager at the BII. Now Account Director at Leisure PR and Communications — www.leisurepr.co.uk — which specialises in the sector and whose clients include whose clients include the Caledonian Brewing Company, Harviestoun Brewery and Miller Brands (UK) Ltd.
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Glynn Davis
Expertise: FREELANCE
58 Sydney Road, London N8 0EX.
020 8340 2271 (w) (h) 07788 106752 (mobile).
glynn@busicomm.fsnet.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 monthly bottled beer review column (complete with "florid" tasting notes), pub walks and occasional features for What's Brewing/Beer (CAMRA), regularly contributes 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
Former editor of Drinks Retailing and drinks editor of Supermarketing. Now writing on food and drink on Checkout magazine and Independent Retail News.
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Kamini Dickie
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Braithwaite, London Lane, Cuckfield. West Sussex RH17 5BD.
07900 892014 (m)
kaminidickie@btinternet.com
Head of Flavour & Innovation at Brewing Research International; provides consultancy in flavour, product development, consumer research, and beer innovations. An expert beer taster who loves fine beer.
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Mark Dorber
Expertise: CELLARMANSHIP, FOOD & BEER
The Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk IP18 6UA.
The Anchor: 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) 07973 333965 (m)
jeremy@vitalonline.co.uk
Communications consultant to Marston’s Beer Company, Enterprise Inns Plc, Marston’s Pedigree, Marston’s Inns and Taverns (including Pitcher and Piano), Bank’s Beers, Marston’s FC, Marston’s Old Empire, Red Brick Brewery Ale, Marston’s Pub Company. Publications: Eagle Eye, The Word, Tap Room News, Pitcher Post.
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Jeff Evans
Expertise: FREELANCE, OFF-TRADE, TASTING/SPEAKING
34 Crawford Place, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 1XG.
01635 37524 (w)(h)(fax)
jeff.evans@virgin.net
Editor of the Good Beer Guide 1991-1998. Author of The Good Bottled Beer Guide (six editions), The CAMRA Beer and Pubs Quiz Book and The Book Of Beer Knowledge. Columnist for What’s Brewing; resident taster for Beers Of The World magazine; regular articles for Beers Of The World, Off Licence News, Class, Brewers’ Guardian, Morning Advertiser and various other publications; co-editor of the Brewery Manual; Chairman of the Judges for the International Beer Challenge. Hosts beer dinners and tastings. Winner of the Beer Writer of the Year award 2001 and the Budvar Travel Bursary 2004.
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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@johnabbott.qc.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, Beulah House, 52 Beulah Road, London, E17 9LQ.
020 8521 6262 (w) 020 8521 4220 (fax)
cat@ontrade.co.uk
Editor and publisher of The OnTrade Review (formerly Freehouse Innkeeper and Multiple Operator). This is a trade publication, a guide to running pubs with a strong emphasis on cask ale. Keen to champion British beer.
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Anthony Firmin
Expertise: PHOTOGRAPHY
13 Ophthalmic Works, Naples Street, Manchester, M4 4DB.
0161 834 6058
anthony@fccl.co.uk
Freelance writer and photographer. Former owner and head brewer of East Manchester micro-brewery, The Lab. Former Publicity Officer with CAMRA High Peak Branch. Owns FCCL, a software consulting and development company specialising in affordable software for micro-breweries. Also runs photography company Firminpix.
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Richard Fox
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, FREELANCE, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING, TV
Flat 1, 84 Duchy Road, Harrogate, North Yorks. HG1 2HA.
07901 992 629
richard@foxfoodandbeer.co.uk
Food and beer writer, broadcaster and chef. Author of The Food and Beer Cook Book with a second cook book currently underway. Worldwide distribution through Marshall Cavendish. Writes regularly for trade and consumer press about food and beer; regular television and radio work; cooking demonstrations and host of gourmet beer and food events. Winner of the Bishop’s Finger Award for Beer and Food Writing 2006.
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Chris Freer
Expertise: FREELANCE, MARKETING
No.1 Mill, The Wharf, Shardlow, Derbyshire, DE72 2GH.
01332 799911 (w) 01332 799971 (f) 07990 973267 (m)
cf@freerbutler-gds.co.uk
Website: www.freerbutler-gds.co.uk
Freelance journalist and senior partner in ‘freerbutler graphic design services’ which provides bespoke publicity material to brewing companies, pub groups and drinks wholesalers/distributors, including corporate magazines: Bellringer Crawl for Abbey Ales, PAWS for a Pint for Elgood & Sons; Moles Brewery Underground for Moles Brewery/Cascade Drinks; Witch News for Moorhouse’s; Rhymney Review for Rhymney Brewery; Castle Rock Times for the Tynemill/Castle Rock Group; and a new publication for Wickwar Brewery. Production services also supplied to National Bartender and to the SIBA Journal.
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Brian Gates
Expertise: EUROPE, FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, OFF-TRADE, TASTING/SPEAKING
6 Shaw Court, Malmesbury Road, Morden, Surrey SM4 6HH.
07791 067566 (m)
brian.gates@hotmail.co.uk
Former head of beer-buying at Tuckers Maltings bottled beer shop in Newton Abbot. Has written for several publications on beer including Taste Magazine, Somerset Pints of View, Devon Life and the Exeter Express & Echo and lectured on beer at colleges. Author of the quarterly Tuckers Maltings newsletter 1996-2007 and also wrote the book to celebrate their 100th year History in the Making. Now established as an advisor/consultant to craft brewers, importers, retailers and wholesalers who wish to take a more specialist approach to bottled beers.
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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
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 (mobile)
a9302919@unet.univie.ac.at
Special interest in English public houses in the 19th and 20th century. Currently working on a PhD thesis on the History of Female Customers in Pubs, 1880s-1970s. 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 20 223333 Ext.3206 (w) 029 20 419908 (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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Steven Griffin
Expertise: INDEPENDENT BREWERS, MARKETING
Franklyns Farm, Beacon, Devon EX14 4TT.
07771 902570 (w) 01404 891899 (h)
taylor.resources@waitrose.com
Marketing consultant. Specialises in business aspects of local brewing and microbreweries.
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Alex Hall
Expertise: EDITORS, FREELANCE
1107 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY11222-6147, USA.
+1 917 957 7623 (m)
gotham-imbiber@cask-ale.co.uk
Craft beer journalist specialising in British-style cask ale in America (regular cask columnist, Ale Street News; editor-publisher The Gotham Imbiber). Webmaster: www.cask-ale.co.uk (both a UK and US resource). 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. Beer correspondent Good Food Live, contributor to the Sky Pub Channel, publications include The Weekend Telegraph, 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.
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Michael Hardman
Expertise: FREELANCE, PR, PUBS
10 Fitzroy Place, Reigate, Surrey RH2 7AP.
01737 766345 (w) 07831 357501 (m)
hardmanmichael@msn.com
Writer on beer, brewing and pubs for newspapers and magazines. Public relations manager of SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers. 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.
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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 for Marston’s and WaverleyTBS.
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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
68a Elmwood Road, London, SE24 9NR.
07973 465081 (w)(h)(mobile)
peterhaydon@onetel.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 a director of Meantime Brewing Co Ltd.
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Maureen Heffernan
Expertise: PR
Leisure PR and Communications Ltd, Gable House, 18-24 Turnham Green Terrace, London W4 1QP.
0208 996 5061 (w) 07860 529242 (m)
maureenheffernan@leisurepr.co.uk
Experienced PR and communications professional with a wealth of experience in the pub, bar and drinks industry. Founder of Leisure PR and Communications agency — www.leisurepr.co.uk — which specialises in the sector and whose clients include, the Caledonian Brewing Company, Harviestoun Brewery and Miller Brands (UK) Ltd.
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Paul Hegarty
Expertise: PR
Coors Brewers Limited, 137 High Street, Burton upon Trent, DE14 1JZ.
01283 513289 (w) 01543 481286 (h) 07808 096250 (m) 01283 513297 (f)
paul.hegarty@coorsbrewers.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
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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Graham Holter
9 Poynings Close, Seaford, East Sussex.
01323 891257 (w) (h)
graham.holter@gmail.com
Consulting editor for William Reed Publishing, contributing regularly to Off Licence News, Wine & Spirit and Drinks International. Book: Sussex Breweries, SB Publishing, 2000.
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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
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 West Country publications. Occasional appearances on BBC South West and South television.
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Keith Hornby Priestnall
Expertise: PR
Middleton Farm Cottage, Collycroft, Clifton, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, DE6 2GN.
01335 343454 (w)(h)
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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Dr. Ian Spencer Hornsey
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
13 High Street, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NY.
01787 278497 (h) 07941 671348 (m)
hornsey.brews@virgin.net
Founder and ex-Head Brewer, Nethergate Brewery. Author Brewing, published 1999, History of Beer and Brewing, published 2003, and The Chemistry & Biology of Winemaking, 2007. Regular contributor to What’s Brewing and Brewing & Distilling International. Specialist interests: beer flavouring, Egyptian brewing, spontaneous fermentations, the origins of fermented beverages, alcohol and health.
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Nigel Huddleston
Expertise: FREELANCE
14 Queens Park Road, Brighton, BN2 0GL.
0870 754 2244 (w) 07968 829057 (m)
nigel.huddleston@btinternet.com
Freelance journalist. Former editor of Off Licence News. Contributor to Imbibe, Drinks International, Off Licence News, Beers of the World, Multiple Buyer & Retailer, Morning Advertiser and Wine & Spirit. Runner-up in the Wells & Young’s Trade and Technical Journalism Award 2006.
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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.
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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 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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Francesca Joslyn
Expertise: PR
The Ceres Partnership, Newton House, Northampton Science Park, Kings Park Road, Moulton Park, Northampton NN3 6LG.
01604 654260 (w) 07855 263209 (m)
francesca.joslyn@ceres-pr.co.uk
Account Manager at PR and marketing consultancy, the Ceres Partnership. Responsible for account planning and activity for numerous clients including Assured UK Malt, and has regular contact with many aspects of the brewing industry.
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Martin Kemp
Pitfield Brewery, London Road, Great Horkesley, Colchester, Essex CO6 4AJ.
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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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. Doesn’t dance.
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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
Journalist. Winner of ‘Best article on Italian Craft Beer’ first edition 2007. Writer for Il Mondo della Birra, Barbusiness, Vie del Gusto, Monthly Food & Beverage. Member of CAMRA and Unionbirrai, Italian craft brewers association. Specialist in Italian breweries 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) (w) 07899 722369 (m)
james@craftbrewing.freeserve.co.uk
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 Scottish ales. Media contact for UK homebrewing activities.
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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.
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Allan McLean
15 Mountcastle Bank, Edinburgh EH8 7TA.
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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Tony Millns
Expertise: HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
32 Cyprus Road, Cambridge, CB1 3QA.
01223 249832 (h) 01223 244187 (home fax) 07976 511439 (mobile)
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
1 Lower End, Wingrave, Buckinghamshire HP22 4PG.
07825 580694 (m)
graeme.mitchell@virgin.net
Beer Marketing Consultant and wanna-be British craft brewer.
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Laurent Mousson
Expertise: EUROPE
Barkenweg 7, 2503 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
+41 31 307 22 21 (w) +41 32 322 26 90 (h)
laurent.mousson@bluewin.ch
Regular contributor to French Canadian beer periodical "Les Carnets de Ma Bière", and "Le Courrier de l'Orge" newsletter of Swiss beer consumer group ABO. Delegate of ABO to EBCU (European Beer Consumers Union) from 1999 to 2007, vice-chair of EBCU since 2003. Judge at various homebrewers and craft beer competitions, notably in Italy, since 2003. Main fields of expertise are the British and Swiss beer scenes, with a good overview of the continental beer landscape. A French speaker, fluent In English and German.
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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.
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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, 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, 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.co.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.
020 7941 5116 (w) 07976 814190 (m)
kate.oppenheim@bskyb.com
Licensed trade journalist for 20 years. Head of Editorial and Broadcasting at Sky Business, responsible for The Pub Channel and Preview magazine. The Pub Channel provides licensees with training and feature programmes on all aspects of the on-licensed trade. Preview is a monthly trade (contract published) magazine for Sky’s 35,000 pub and club subscribers. It includes business-style trade features as well as information on Sky Sports and The Pub Channel.
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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: OFF-TRADE
4 Twinflower, Milton Keynes, MK7 7LH.
020 8293 1111 (w) 01908 671703 (h) 07779 352021 (m) 020 8293 4004 (fax)
enyapag@aol.com
Beer buyer at Safeway from 1997 to 2004. Sales and Marketing Director at Meantime Brewery in 2005 and 2006. Judge at American and British festivals plus World Beer Cup since 2002. Contributed many articles to trade press. Expects to spend 2007 visiting breweries around the world.
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Lynne Pearce
Expertise: FREELANCE
80 Stortford Road, Hoddesdon, Herts, EN11 0AN.
01992 448474 (w)(fax) 01992 415294 (h) 07790 423705 (mobile)
lynnepearce29@ntlworld.com
Freelance writer and occasional broadcaster. Particular interests include women and beer, real ale, advertising and marketing.
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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
Partner in Alewords, a company specialising in journalism and public relations for the beer and pub businesses, particularly in Yorkshire — currently working for SIBA on the history and profile of Yorkshire beer for an EU application. Author of many books on beer and pubs, the most recent being The Inns of Dickens. His book, The Landlord’s Tale, won a Guild silver tankard and was a runner up in the 2003 Glenfiddich Drinks awards. He writes for several magazines and newspapers including First Draught, Beers of the World and also for the Good Beer Guide. Honoured six times in the Guild’s awards including a special award in 2000 following seven years as Chairman of the Guild.
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Jane Peyton
Expertise: FREELANCE, PUBS, RADIO, TASTING/SPEAKING
50 Rosebank, Holyport Road, London SW6 6LH.
07734 049411 (m)
jp@jane-peyton.com
Beer tasting host, beer and food matching host, pub quiz host, public speaking, radio contributor and guest, pub events producer and host, expertise on pubs and pub interior design, freelance journalist, author of several pubs including Pub Scene — www.pub-scene.com — and Fabulous Food Shops — www.fabulousfoodshops.com — Fuller’s brewery tour guide.
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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. 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.booksaboutbeer.com
Organiser of European & British Beer Tours for everyone from novice to expert. Co-author of Lambic(k)Land (2004) & Around Bruges in 80 Beers (2006), future projects include beer in London and Brussels; 25 years expertise in beer festival organisation and beer event management. Specialist in pork scratchings & 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
Regular beer presenter for UK Food Live — Market Kitchen TV; hop lover; barley farmer; founder member of the Beer Academy — www.beeracademy.org — winner of a 2006 President's award from the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group. Special Interest: beer and food matching. Mission: to encourage restaurants, pubs and bars to create interesting beer lists. Never writes books.
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Clare Pope
Expertise: PR
Edwards Harvey, The Mill House, Hollingworth Court, Ashford Road, Maidstone, Kent ME14 5PP
01622 604600 (w) 01622 604647 (f) 07712 047949 (m)
clare.pope@edwardsharvey.com
Public relations consultant to Shepherd Neame.
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John Porter
Expertise: FOOD & BEER, PUBS
The Publican, Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UY.
0207 955 3707
johnp@thepublican.com
Food Editor of The Publican, writing and editing regular beer and food features for the title. Also writes ‘Drink Tonight’ columns for London Lite, and contributes features on beer and pubs to a range of trade and consumer titles.
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Andrew Pring
Expertise: EDITORS
10 Knole Way, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3RS.
01293 610480 (w)
andrew.pring@william-reed.co.uk
Website: www.william-reed.co.uk
Journalist. Editor of Morning Advertiser since 2000. Past chairman of British Guild of Beer Writers (2003-05). Former editor of Accountancy Age, Contract Journal and Insurance times. 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@btinternet.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.
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Evan Rail
Expertise: EUROPE, FOOD & BEER, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY
Pod Smukyrkou 10, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic.
+420 605 834 242
GBGPrague@gmail.com
Author of Good Beer Guide Prague and the Czech Republic (CAMRA Books). Frequent contributor to the New York Times Travel section, Condé Nast Traveler, Saveur and other publications.
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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, the Guardian and GQ, writing on beer, travel and other subjects. He also co-edits a free-to-receive email newsletter on food and drink called Scoff!, which can be subscribed to by visiting www.gastronomail.com. Winner of the Artois Bock Award for National Journalism 2005.
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Nicholas Redman
Expertise: FREELANCE, HISTORY - PUB & BREWERY, TASTING/SPEAKING
237 Harrowdene Gardens, Teddington, TW11 0DP.
020 8977 2115 (h) 07941 834650(m)
nick.redman@hotmail.com
Writer, historian, researcher.
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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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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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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
113 Hillside Grove, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9DD.
07748 392965 (w)(h)
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.
020 7627 9152 (w) 07841 694137 (m)
ros.shiel@beautifulbeer.com
PR manager at the British Beer & Pub Association for Beautiful Beer, the industry’s campaign to change the image of beer.
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John Simpson
Expertise: EUROPE, PUBS, TASTING/SPEAKING
56 Greenacres, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 5WY.
www.simpson.uk.com/beers
Lecturer in Adult Education running beer tasting courses (also languages), specialising in Belgian beers, operating website and email newsletter (see above) and offering field trips to Belgium from Feb 2006.
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Kelly Smith
Expertise: FREELANCE
11 Faulconbridge Way, Warwick, CV34 6EU.
01926 313427 (w) 07786 737363 (m)
kel.e@btinternet.com
Freelance writer. Licensed trade, pubs and beer. Beer Academy accreditation.
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Fiona Smith
The Engine Room, Shenstone Station, Shenstone, Lichfield, WS14 ONW.
+44 (0) 844 800 2068 (w) +44 (0) 7768 721455 (m)
fiona@fandbpartnership.com
Managing Director The F&B Partnership: Marketing consultancy to brewing and leisure industry specialising in beer appreciation, beer education and learning. Disciplines include category management; Masterclasses; courses; training programs for the trade and consumer; event management. Key influencer in creating Speciality Beer Masterclasses at Taste Festivals. Regular commentator in the trade press.
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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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Tom Stainer
Expertise: EDITORS
230 Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 4LW.
01727 798455 (w)
tom.stainer@camra.org.uk
Editor of CAMRA’s membership magazine What’s Brewing. Formerly editor of MA Scotland and deputy news editor for the Morning Advertiser.
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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
The F&B Partnership H/O, The Engine House, Shenstone Station, Station Road, Shenstone, WS14 0NW.
0844 800 2068
Marc@fandbpartnership.com
Master Beer Sommelier with catering school training and the accolade of an honorary knighthood (awarded by the Chevalerie du Fourquet des Brasseurs of the Confederation of Belgian Brewers), Marc has unique and unrivalled first-hand knowledge of how to taste beer and pair it with food. This knowledge and experience is combined with an ability to connect with the consumer and trade — and transfer quite complex ideas and information into digestible bite-sized pieces. He already has a considerable profile in the brewing industry and is beginning to extend this into the world of consumer gastronomy — through appearances at events such as ‘Taste’, TV appearances and numerous interviews in the press.
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Keith Thomas
Expertise: BREWING TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Brewlab, Darwin Annex, University of Sunderland, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD.
0191 515 2535 (w) 01748 826654 (h) 0191 515 2531 (fax)
keith.thomas@sunderland.ac.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
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; has also produced 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.
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Dale Tomlinson
Expertise: GRAPHICS
8 Norfolk Terrace, Cambridge, CB1 2NG
01223 573669 (w) 01223 573674 (h)
daletomlinson@dial.pipex.com
Freelance designer. Publishing and general graphic design: book design, typography; logos; publicity items etc. Designer of books and campaign material for CAMRA, plus books for Cogan & Mater.
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Georgina Wald
Expertise: PR
5 Florence Street, London, NW4 1QG.
07831 299801 (w) 020 8996 2198 (h)
georgina.wald@fullers.co.uk
Former Publican Newspaper journalist and Corporate Communications Manager for the British Institute of Innkeeping. Now responsible for public relations at Fuller, Smith & Turner plc.
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Rupert Watts
Expertise: FREELANCE
26 Nore Farm Avenue, Emsworth, Hampshire PO10 7NA.
01243 389957 (w) (h) (f)
watts-ale@ukonline.co.uk
Freelance journalist and former deputy editor of The Publican.
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Tim Webb
Expertise: EUROPE
PO Box 1027 (Burwell), Cambridge CB5 0EJ
07966 032638 (m)
BelgiumGBG@aol.com
Website: www.booksaboutbeer.com
Author: Good Beer Guide to Belgium (UK editions: 1992 to 2005, US edition 1998, Dutch edition 2003) and Lambic(k) Land (2004). Specialist writer on Belgian beers and cafés, plus beer travelling. Managing editor of a small independent book publishing company, Cogan & Mater Limited — published Around Bruges in 80 Beers (June 2006).
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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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