About The Author
Adrian Tierney-Jones
Adrian has been writing books since 2002 when he started with West Country Ales — since then his books have included The Big Book of Beer , Great British Pubs, Britain’s Beer Revolution (co-written with Roger Protz), World Bottled Beers, London and his latest, The Seven Moods of Craft Beer in which he asserts that beers have their own mood that can match the drinker’s.
Andy Parker
Andy is a beer blogger, home brewer and owner of fledgling Berkshire based microbrewery Elusive Brewing. He has previously appeared on ITV’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show, demonstrating and discussing the rise in popularity of home brewing and was named winner of the The Craft Beer Co. National Home Brewing Awards in 2014.
Jane Peyton
Jane Peyton is an award-winning beer sommelier, writer, broadcaster and founder of the School of Booze – a drinks consultancy and corporate events production company. Jane was the UK's first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Britain's first Beer Sommelier of the Year.
Jonny Garrett
Jonny is a London-based beer writer, author, and filmmaker. As well as writing regularly for Good Beer Hunting, he is the founder of YouTube's Craft Beer Channel. He has won several writing and broadcasting awards, including U.K. Beer Writer of the Year in 2019.
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Laura Hadland
Currently researching and writing the official biography of CAMRA in readiness for their 50th anniversary in March 2021.
- Eleven years of food and drink blogging as The Extreme Housewife
- Five years of freelance food and drink writing for local press
- Regular contributor to food and drink debates on BBC Radio Leicester
- Deliver beer and wine tastings and food pairing sessions, including the tour and tasting offer at Rothley Wine Estate where I have been a volunteer for nearly 5 years
- Three years of running Thirst Media, a creative agency that offers content creation, marketing and PR, photography and graphic design. We work with a range of small businesses including a number of breweries, pubs and bars
- WSET Level 3 trained
What you can offer as a writer/beer lover?
I love beer because of the people it brings me into contact with. Passionate microbrewers, dedicated landlords, and enthusiastic regulars. I despair when we are told that Britain has no food culture, because our heritage in beer is unsurpassed. So I am dedicated to communicating what is great about beer to the wider public. Flavours, innovation but also fantastic stories deserve to be shared.
Matthew Curtis
Matthew Curtis is a freelance writer and photographer based in Manchester, England. He specialises in writing about beer, pubs and the culture that stems from them, and has written for various publications including Vittles, Novara Media, BEER, Ferment and Good Beer Hunting. In 2019, he founded online magazine and podcast Pellicle with his friend Jonathan Hamilton, for which he is editor-in-chief. Born in Lincoln, Matthew grew up in rural Lincolnshire before attending the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough, after which he relocated to London where he lived for 15 years while discovering his enthusiasm for all things beer. In 2020 he relocated to Manchester, where he fell in love with the city, and its rich beer and pub culture. He is the author of An Opinionated Guide to London Pubs (Hoxton Mini Press, 2021) and Modern British Beer (CAMRA Books, 2021). His latest book, Manchester's Best Beer, Pubs and Bars (CAMRA Books), is due to be released in October 2023.
Melissa Cole
Award-winning writer Melissa is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading beer & food experts. Renowned for her insightful and engaging writing style, sense of humour and ability to translate complicated beer jargon into something everyone can understand, she’s already seen success with her debut book Let Me Tell You About Beer.
However, it doesn’t stop there, Melissa truly immerses herself in the world of beer; from judging beer competitions from Amsterdam to Rio and Denver to Dublin to brewing beers with some of the world’s most respected brewers like Odell, Goose Island and Fuller's, there’s not much she doesn’t get her hands dirty doing when it comes to the beer game.
As if that didn’t keep her busy enough, she’s also sought after by restaurants like the world-famous St John to help construct beer lists and curates the beer offering at some of the hottest food event tickets in town like Meatopia and has also appeared at Hay Literary Festival and done cooking with beer demos at Borough Market and Foodies Festivals.
With three regular columns in various magazine titles, as well as being a well-known face on the food festival circuit and regularly quoted in the national press – put that together with semi-regular TV and radio appearances - her profile is high and her abilities to communicate about beer broad.
Pete Brown
Pete Brown is a British author, journalist, broadcaster and consultant specialising in food and drink, especially the fun parts like beer, pubs, cider, bacon rolls and fish and chips. Across nine books, his broad, fresh approach takes in social history, cultural commentary, travel writing, personal discovery and natural history, and his words are always delivered with the warmth and wit you’d expect from a great night down the pub. He writes for newspapers and magazines around the world and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme. He was named British Beer Writer of the Year in 2009, 2012 and 2016, has won three Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, and has been shortlisted twice for the Andre Simon Awards. Pete is Chair of the British Guild of Beer Writers. He lives in London with his wife Liz, and dog Mildred.
Roger Protz
ROGER PROTZ is a campaigner and broadcaster and the author of more than 25 books about beer and brewing. He was the editor of CAMRA's market-leading Good Beer Guide for over two decades and has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the British Guild of Beer Writers and the Society of Independent Brewers.
Roger appears regularly in the media and in 2016 was the subject of a BBC 4 Food Show special. He gives frequent talks and beer tastings at events in the UK and has also lectured at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and Beer Expo in Melbourne, Australia.
Roger’s updates and comments on the brewing industry can be read on his website, www.protzonbeer.co.uk, and you can follow him on Twitter @RogerProtzBeer.
His most recent title World Beer Guide is a lavishly illustrated guide to the the brewers and beers across the globe.
Tim Webb
Tim Webb is one of the UK’s leading writers about beer, enjoying a worldwide reputation for his knowledge of Belgian, British and German beer styles and the craft and traditional beer revival of the last 40 years.
