I regularly do talks, speeches, readings and other events, both for the public and bespoke for corporate clients, across the UK and sometimes internationally. Check back here to see if I’ve added any near you!
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July 2018
IMBIBE Live!
Drinks writers Jess Mason and Pete Brown celebrate diversity behind the bar. Taste your way through a diverse range of beers, brewed by the nation’s finest brewers. Learn how to make sours, saisons and serious big hitters appeal to your beautifully diverse customer base. Leave stereotypes at the door, stop trying to sell beer to women, and learn how to sell to people. Free when you register for the main event.
Find out more »August 2018
Beer and Music Matching at the Green Man Festival
I've been doing beer and music matching events for about five years now, but Green Man has become by far and away the highlight of this or any other event I do. Green Man's Courtyard Bar boasts 70 different beers and 30 different ciders sourced exclusively from Wales. On the Friday morning of the festival, I open the spoken word tent by matching six of these drinks with six of the musical acts playing the festival. It's turned into a…
Find out more »Why Do Guitars Taste of Hops? at ABVFest, Belfast
Beer and Music Matching comes to Belfast! Your brain is lying to you. You have more than five senses. And you can hear the difference between IPA and stout. Pete Brown has been running experimental beer tastings pairing top tunes and beers for six years. This talk is a mixture of fandom, humour, and genuine neuro-scientific research. Think it sounds like nonsense? Come along and have your sense challenged. If you’re right, you’ll at least taste some great beers. If you’re…
Find out more »September 2018
From Orchard to Glass: The Magic of Cider
Get your taste buds ready for a talk and tutored apple juice and cider tasting with the award-winning author of World’s Best Cider (Fortnum and Mason Drinks Book of the Year) and The Apple Orchard (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week). Please note this event is over 18years only. The talk will be taking place in The Stable's upstairs dining area, unfortunately there is no wheelchair access. Cider is the world’s most misunderstood drink. Often compared to beer, a…
Find out more »Miracle Brew at the Abergavenny Food Festival
Miracle Brew is a globetrotting adventure through the nature of beer. Recent research shows that only 22% of people know what beer is made of, which is bizarre when you consider it is the third most popular drink in the world – after tea and coffee. Pete Brown, an award-winning writer who has been called the “beer drinker’s Bill Bryson”, presents a complete natural history of the drink, emphasising the importance of place – or terroir – to each of beer’s…
Find out more »Cider Reimagined at the Abergavenny Food Festival
orget everything you know about cider. Far from the fizzy sweet drinks lining our shelves today, in the 17th and 18th century the great ciders of the time sat on the tables of nobility, served in elaborate stemware and revered as highly as wine. In this session the UK’s leading beer and cider writer, Pete Brown, is teaming up with exciting new Herefordshire cider producer, Little Pomona, to guide you through the history of this drink, before showing how these…
Find out more »The Beer and Cider Marketing Awards
The only awards scheme that celebrates marketing in the beer and cider industries in any channel, for any size of brewer, returns for its fourth year. I'm chair of judges and on the night I'll be hosting the awards and handing out the gongs. You can enter the awards here and buy tickets for the event here. There may be plenty of time yet, but it always sells out in advance!
Find out more »October 2018
Beer Cities’ Forum
I'm delighted to be doing one of the keynote speeches at the inaugural Beer Cities' Forum, as well as chairing a British Guild of Beer Writers session with Roger Protz, Adrian Tierney-Jones, Frances Brace & Susanna Forbes in the afternoon. It's the first of its kind and a great chance for people to learn about and discuss the very best beer cities and beer weeks in Britain.
Find out more »TEDxLeamingtonSpa
In the spirit of ‘ideas worth spreading’, TEDx is a programme of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. With tickets usually selling out in less than 2 hours, TEDxLeamingtonSpa has become one of hottest events in the calendar. All I can tell you is that the theme is Rhythm. It's going to be amazing.
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