Jane Peyton

Go Wild! The Belgian brewers who harness wild yeast fermentation produce beers like no others on earth. Join Jane Peyton, beer sommelier and drinks educator, in a tasting of four of Belgium’s singular beer styles. Warning: if you are in the mood for hops and malt flavours, you will be disappointed. This beer tasting is powered by sour!

Beers:
Kriek by Brouwerij Boon
Duchesse de Bourgogne by Brouwerij Verhaeghe
Orval by Brasserie d’Orval
Mariage Parfait by Brouwerij Boon
Dubbel by Westmalle

British Library St Pancras.
Beer is the world’s favourite alcoholic drink and Britain’s national libation. Ale is even mentioned in Magna Carta (clause 35).

Britain has a dynamic brewing scene and an unmatched heritage in spreading the love and knowledge of beer around the world. More styles of beer first brewed in Britain are now brewed overseas than those of any other brewing nation. These include India Pale Ale, Pale Ale, Porter, Stout, Imperial Russian Stout, Mild, Bitter, Barley Wine, Brown Ale, and Scotch Ale.

Join leading beer sommelier Jane Peyton as she extols British beer and reveals fascinating facts about beer history and culture, and its health benefits (in moderation).

An exploration of the best alcohol-free beers on the market. Brought to you by Wise Bartender. Join beer sommelier Jane Payton in tasting the best alcohol free beers at the Festival. Try the lagers, stouts, pale ales and other styles and find your favourite.

Have you ever wondered about the difference between a lager and an ale? Or marvelled at how, with only four basic ingredients, there are around 150 different styles of beer? In The Philosophy of Beer, Jane Peyton, the UK’s first Beer Sommelier of the Year, distils practical advice from the incredible history of the nation’s favourite beverage, spanning the earliest evidence of beer 13,000 years ago, its central role in monasteries and on naval ships, its significance in the discovery of cholera, and its enduring popularity today. This fascinating insight into beer’s rich history will teach you how to taste like a professional, how best to match beer with food, and even how to brew it yourself! Quench your thirst for knowledge with everything you need to know to be a mastermind in beer.

Few if any alcoholic drinks have the dramatic and multi-faceted history of gin. It has served as a crucial medicine, a form of escapism, an inspiration for satirical art, a source for the phrase ‘Dutch courage’ and a popular pastime for those keen to experiment with ¬flavouring their own gins. This book charts the historic transformation of the beverage, revealing how a spirit once given a wide berth by the middle and upper classes became the measure of the moment. This fascinating history is garnished with classic cocktail recipes, tips for stirring up the perfect G & T and an introduction to the essential botanicals.

As Dr Johnson memorably wrote ‘Alcohol is life’s second greatest pleasure’. Humans were seeking out alcohol from the moment they first walked. This book contains everything you have ever wanted to know about drink, from how to make absinthe to the cultural history of zythos (beer). Packed with fascinating miscellany and curious facts to entertain your friends at the pub, this book is an essential compendium of knowledge about booze. Bottoms up!

Beer is the world’s most popular alcoholic drink – a joy giving,convivial, nutritious and delicious gift from nature and possibly the most diverse alcoholic libation with over 100 different styles and thousands of brands. This book, written by a leading beer sommelier, not only delves into the rich history of beer production and drinking but contains practical advice and explanations of beer styles, which ones to drink and why, food-matching suggestions, and the not-to-be-missed best beers in the world. There’s no better accompaniment to the perfect pint.

Brilliant Britain is an entertaining journey through the quirks, oddities and idiosyncrasies that define our nation and preserve us from the mundane and predictable, such as:

• the royal pomp and pageantry of the State Opening of Parliament and the less well-known swan-upping;

• unusual sports and pastimes, from bog snorkelling to worm charming;

• annual countrywide events including the May Day festivities and the beating of the bounds;

• dialects and slang, provincial foods and a recipe for the perfect chip butty.

This book lifts the lid on a rich heritage of eccentricity and diversity, exploring all that makes Britain brilliant

The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with a prospective lover. It is a comfortable destination for seeking out the company of others. Whether located on a street corner in the Scottish Highlands, Munich or New Zealand, a favourite pub is defined by its own distinct atmosphere and character. Pubs are distinguished as much by their interior decor, as by the beer and liquor they sell and the customers that mingle around the bar. These qualities combine to give a ‘local’ its particular appeal, with a draw far beyond its immediate locality. These very unique, idiosyncratic attributes of pubs, which were once taken for granted, are now in real danger of extinction, as bar chains with standardised designs and drinks’ menus are rolled out across city centres and main streets. Turning its back on the trend towards homogeneity of today’s watering holes, “Pub Scene” celebrates the often exuberant, sometimes elegant decor, and always singular, wow factor of public drinking places, whether they are big or small, traditional or contemporary. In her engaging and anecdotal style, author Jane Peyton describes some of the world’s best looking pubs, including British Victorian Gin Palaces, classic Art Nouveau Belgian cafe bars, Germany’s Beloved bierkellers, Australia’s amazing beachside beer–gardens and America’s notable brew-pubs.

Displaying a wonderful array of visually tempting and delicious produce, staffed by friendly and knowledgeable experts, a whole new generation of stylishly designed food shops are emerging. Conveniently located, they are often epicurean magnets for local communities or centrally placed meccas for cosmopolitan customers. Whatever their location, however, they all appeal to our eyes, nose, ears, taste and touch; because we shop with our senses. They also connect to something more vital, whether we are aware of it or not – our emotions. Designers of food shops are not just charged with the responsibility of creating a good-looking space, they also most aptly and discreetly push shoppers’ mental buttons, triggering their needs, desires and aspirations, by a marriage of design and psychology.
This book is a unique opportunity to browse thirty-three fabulous food shops, the majority built since 2000, in Britain and Continental Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and North America. They not only look marvellous, but sell some of the finest fresh and prepared produce in the world. Every type of retail outlet is featured: from vast superstores to the tiniest delicatessen; heritage food halls and their 21st century futuristic counterparts; minimalist bakeries and patisseries that resemble jewellery shops.

Looking Up in Edinburgh is a photographic guide to what is usually an ignored aspect of the urban landscape: the surprising, witty and often hidden architectural features above eye-level.
It is an interactive book, which combines a treasure hunt with a travel guide. The introduction gives a light-hearted potted history of Edinburgh. Following this, the book presents a host of architectural gems each covered by an original full-colour photograph, brief quirky anecdotes about its story, cryptic clues to its location, and historical information about the building in the photograph or the immediate area.

All buildings are presented on easy to follow maps, making this book ideal as a walking guide or treasure hunt.

This is the first book to introduce readers to a fascinating dimension of Edinburgh’s townscape that they might otherwise never have seen
A compendium of stunning photographs and fascinating facts relating to one of the world’s most beautiful cities (which welcomes over 4 million visitors each year!)
Combines a tour guide with a treasure hunt
Will appeal to Edinburgh’s residents and visitors alike
Follows hot on the heels of Looking up in London

A warning to anyone who claims that they know London…think again!
There is a whole new world waiting for us if we would only look beyond those familiar storefronts and all that corporate branding. Looking up in London is the first book to introduce us to the overlooked gems on London’s buildings above eye-level

Combining a travel guide with a treasure hunt, this is a book for London’s explorers, visitors and residents alike. A compendium of detailed colour photographs, maps and fascinating architectural and historical facts about special decorative features introduces us to a dimension of London we may otherwise never have seen.

Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs this book is the equivalent of taking a tour with a local who knows all the hidden corners and secrets that other tour guides ignore.

IoH member Jane Peyton MIH, beer sommelier, drinks educator, and founder of Beer Day Britain has been awarded a top business accolade.

Peyton is a ‘booze historian’ and author, whose books include ‘Beer o’ Clock’ and ‘School of Booze’

A world record for the most people carrying out a beer tasting in one room was officially broken at last night’s (15 March) Publican Awards, Guinness World Records revealed.