Jennifer TalleyJennifer Talley’s brewing career began in Utah as brewmaster at Squatters Pub Brewery in Salt Lake City. She honed her skills through a variety of positions at Salt Lake Brewing Company, Redhook Brewery, Russian River Brewing Company and Auburn Alehouse in Auburn, California.
With more than 20 awards from the Great American Beer Festival® and World Beer Cup℠, Talley is also a Cicerone Examiner, craft beer industry speaker, technical committee member for the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, and a national and international beer judge. Talley was awarded the Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing in 2011. She is the author of Session Beers: Brewing for Flavor and Balance and currently the owner/brewmaster at 1849 Brewing Company in Grassvalley California. |
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Fal AllenFal started brewing professionally in 1988 for Red Hook Brewery in Seattle, WA. In 1990 he moved on to Pike Place brewery where he was the head brewer for 8 years. In 1999 Fal won the Brewer’s Association’s Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation and Achievement in Craft Brewing.
Between 2005 and 2010 Fal was the Brewmaster and brand ambassador for Archipelago Brewing Company in Singapore (a division of Asia Pacific Breweries). During that time he developed many new and unusual beers brewed with local Southeast Asian spices and other ingredients. Fal Allen is the Brewmaster for Anderson Valley Brewing Company and holds degrees from both the University of Hawaii, and the Seibel Institute of Brewing Technology.. He has spoken internationally on a range of brewing subjects from cask conditioned beers to QA/QC procedures, to brewery installation. He has also Judged beer internationally in Japan, Singapore, the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and New Zealand. Fal's writing credits include the new book “Gose; Brewing a Classic German Beer for the Modern Era”, co-authoring the book “Barley Wine”, a four part series on Microbiology and lab procedures, and more than 40 articles in periodicals including American Brewer, The New Brewer, Zymurgy, Master Brewer’s Technical Quarterly, The Malt Advocate, The Scandinavian Brewer’s Review and The Washington Law Review. |
Michael FERGUSONEmmy nominated BEER GEEKS host, Master Brewer Michael Ferguson, is a pioneer in the craft beer world and among the first genuine Beer Geeks. After a decade at IBM and a B.S. in Engineering from UC Berkeley Michael started his brewing career as an apprentice brewer at Gordon Biersch Brewing Company in Palo Alto in 1990. Michael's first brew was a German Dunkel, a dark lager and one of his favorite styles.As a Dan Gordon protégé he climbed to Director of Brewery Operations. Michael has played a pivotal role in may breweries including Director of Operations with BJ's Restaurants Inc. from 2004 to 2015. He owns BrewerFX LLC, a company that provides production and voice over services, and currently holds the position of Account Manager for Glacier Designs Systems, who are leaders in innovative draught beer equipment.
Michael’s passionate relationship with brews – indeed he has been known to say that passion flows through his veins and presents itself in the art and science that is craft brewing - does not end at the tap, he is also a true “foodie”. Being the son of an accomplished chef, food and its many cultural permutations was just part of growing up and from a very early age he learned everything he could from his father about food, people and the world at large. |
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Clement DjamehAt 62 years old, Clement Djameh drinks at least a beer a day. Since 2003, his glass has been filled with drafts he brewed himself, exclusively using a local African grain called sorghum. The only imported ingredients are the hops.
Djameh and his colleague Fash Sawyerr, are the founders of Ghana's first-ever microbrewery, Inland Microbrewery. It's located inside a crumbling, honey-colored mansion complete with Greek-style columns in Kwabenya, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Ghana's capital, Accra. |
Pete BrownPete 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.
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John Keeling |
John grew up in Manchester and started his career in the beer industry as a laboratory technician at Wilsons Brewery 1974. He moved on to study for a degree in Brewing and Distilling at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 1977. John joined Fuller, Smith and Turner (Fuller’s) as a junior Brewer 1981. He worked for Fuller’s for 18 years before becoming Head Brewer and was in that position for a further 18 years. In 1999 he was promoted to Brewing Director (Head brewer) at Fuller’s.
In January 2017, he handed over the reins to Georgina Young, Fuller’s first ever female Head Brewer, but remains a Global Ambassador for the company– which involves travelling the world tasting and talking about beer.
John is an acclaimed judge and speaker at many beer competitions around the world including several Beer World Cups and the Australian International Beer Awards. Fuller’s has won many medals for their beer during his time as a brewer including the CAMRA Beer of the Year and Gold medals at the Beer World Cup.
In 2017 he was awarded SIBA’s ‘Silver Tankard’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
In January 2017, he handed over the reins to Georgina Young, Fuller’s first ever female Head Brewer, but remains a Global Ambassador for the company– which involves travelling the world tasting and talking about beer.
John is an acclaimed judge and speaker at many beer competitions around the world including several Beer World Cups and the Australian International Beer Awards. Fuller’s has won many medals for their beer during his time as a brewer including the CAMRA Beer of the Year and Gold medals at the Beer World Cup.
In 2017 he was awarded SIBA’s ‘Silver Tankard’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
