Past Events

Beer and Music Matching comes to Norwich! 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…

Together with Adrian Tierney-Jones and Roger Protz, I'll be taking part in a three-way chat about our latest beer books, kindly staged by Norwich Waterstone's. I'll be talking about Miracle Brew, which is out in paperback on 14th June but will be available at this event.

Original Gravity% is the UK’s only national, independent magazine on beer and drinking culture, available locally in Stokey’s best pubs and bars. Editor-at-Large and festival regular Pete Brown, along with Publisher Daniel Neilson and Editor (and Beer Writer of the Year) Adrian Tierney-Jones bring the mag to life over an hour and a half of beer tastings, readings, a guided tasting of beer styles, a Q&A with Jaega Wise, head brewer of Wild Card, discussion of beery issues, and more…

We are what we eat: food defines us as it nourishes us. Pete Brown interviews food writers Asma Khan and Nargisse Benkabbou about how our food memories shape who we are, but also how the dishes change as our lives change. Asma runs Darjeeling Express, acclaimed for its combination of ancient family recipes drawn from Asma’s Mughlai ancestry, and Calcutta street food. Nargisse was named Observer Rising Food Star 2018, and is author of the Casablanca, a cookbook reflecting both…

A fixture of Stokey Lit Fest, GastroSalon, hosted by writer and broadcaster Rachel McCormack, has three guests tell the food and drink stories that they never get the chance to talk about anywhere else. In previous years we’ve had tales of comedy writers being completely confused in culinary China, found out what Delia Smith cooks in her own house and why filo is the worst thing to make on TV. At the end of the salon our guests read out…

The paperback edition of my latest book, Miracle Brew, is published on 14th June, so I'm launching it a day early at Nottingham Craft Beer Week! Miracle Brew is the story of my globetrotting adventures in the nature of beer. Recent research shows that only 22% of people know what beer is made of, which is bizarre when you consider that beer is the third most popular drink in the world, after tea and coffee. This book explores the nature and…

Beer and Music Matching comes to Norwich! As heard on last week's BBC Radio 4 Food Programme... 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…