The Brewers Lectures is a series of live events from the Brewers Journal. The half day lectures give a platform to six speakers to inspire change, generate discussion and share brewing expertise.
The lectures are hosted five times a year cross the UK and Ireland.
Full details of each lecture will be released in the run up to the day. Scroll down for upcoming events.
Edinburgh, 26 june 2024
The Venue
Moonwake Beer Co
6A Tower St
Leith, Edinburgh
EH6 7BY
The Time
12:00 – 17:30
The Sponsors
Rooster's brewery, Harrogate, january 29th 2025
The Venue
Rooster’s Brewery Taproom
Unit H5, Fifth Avenue, Hornbeam Park Ave, Harrogate HG2 8QT
The Time
12:30 – 17:00
The Sponsors
The Speakers
Rachel Auty | Women on Tap CIC
Rachel Auty is a gender equality activist, writer, and speaker focused on driving change in the beer industry. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, she brings over 20 years of expertise in brand strategy, communications, and leadership, and today works as a marketing consultant. In 2017, she founded Women On Tap CIC, a social enterprise promoting gender equality in beer through initiatives like WOTFEST - a festival celebrating women in the industry. A member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Rachel won a 2021 award and became a Guild Director in 2023.
Bec Blake | Sellar
Everything but the brewing, Bec has worked almost every corner of the craft brewery industry for the last 13 years. From working in her local beer bar, Bec moved her expertise and passion for the industry over to the US where she became the Head Beer Buyer at Whole Foods Market. From there she ventured into B2B sales as the Southern California off-trade representative for Stone Distribution, navigating a fiercely independent portfolio of over 50 suppliers including Alesmith, Russian River and El Segundo Brewery across the golden coast. Shortly returning to the UK after the pandemic, Bec has since worked as National Sales Manager for DEYA Brewing Co and has recently joined the team at Sellar as Buyer Success Manage
Tom Fozard | Rooster's
Brewing Co
Tom Fozard is the commercial director at Rooster’s Brewing Co, a business that has toasted 30 years in business and influenced countless brewers in that time. And earlier this month the Harrogate brewery revamped its core range for 2025 with the addition of four new gluten free beers available across cask, keg and can.
Nick Hickman | NIRAS
Nick Hickman is the head of UK operations at NIRAS. NIRAS is one of Scandinavia’s leading consulting engineering companies. Their food & beverage engineers and consultants draw upon a unique commercial understanding of plant operations and product integrity in the food & beverage, ingredients and FMCG sector.
Eloise Perkins | Northern Monk
Eloise Perkins is the quality manager at Northern Monk. She has a background in Applied Biological Sciences with a thesis focus on Marine Biology. She moved her focus to complete her Msc Brewing and Distilling at Heriot Watt; at the same time she joined Northern Monk in 2021 to help build out the lab and QC program, took over the Quality program last year.
Wayne Smith and Lee Grabham | Northern Monk
Wayne & Lee are the founders of Brew York, one of the leading independent craft breweries in the UK. Wayne, a former Finance Director and Chartered Accountant is the Managing Director at Brew York. Whilst Lee a former Project Manager, with a science background, is responsible for all things Production related. In the 9 years since inception, Brew York has grown to become one of the largest independently owned breweries in England, with 2 production facilities and 6 bars in their portfolio. With a reputation for producing a wide range of diverse and playful beers alongside a stellar core beer range and barrel ageing project, Brew York have a beer for everyone.
BRISTOL, 27TH February 2025
The Venue
Wiper and True Brewery & Taproom, Old Market.
Unit 11, City Business Park, St Jude’s, Bristol BS5 0SP
The Time
10:30 – 15:00
The Sponsors
BRIGHTON, MAY 2025
The Venue
TBC
The Time
TBC
The Sponsors
Become a speaker
The Brewers Lectures are built on giving professionals from in-and-around the world of beer a platform to share their knowledge, expertise and experiences.
You might have grown and expanded your brewery, undertaken a successful rebrand, or built a fantastic team of talented individuals.
You might have some best-practice tips for dry-hopping, effective ideas on yeast pitching or wise words on water treatment.
The Brewers Lectures are designed to enable knowledge-sharing and to help ensure we create a better industry as a result. Do you have a burning idea or talk topic you want to share with the world? Then get in touch with our editor Tim Sheahan at tim@reby.media and we can hopefully have you take part in one of our future events!