About Jane Peyton
Founder of the School of Booze
Jane Peyton is an alcoholic drinks educator and consultant, broadcaster, pub expert, writer, public speaker, and founder of the School of Booze. She trained through the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, and the Beer & Cider Academy which are Britain’s official education bodies for accredited learning.
Jane has expertise in something that makes millions of people very happy – alcohol. Not just in the subject of modern alcohol but also the cultural history of alcohol. Ask her what Cleopatra or Jane Austen drank and she can tell you!
Jane was the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Britain’s first Beer Sommelier of the Year. She is the instigator and driving force of the UK’s annual national beer day – Beer Day Britain (June 15th). She is a former Imbibe Magazine Drinks Educator of the Year. For her beer work she was awarded the title Outstanding Individual Achievement in Beer from the Beer & Cider Marketing Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Britain’s Parliamentary Beer Group.
Jane was included as one of Top 100 SME’s in London & South-East (awarded by NatWest bank and Newsquest), was a finalist in the Great British Entrepreneur Awards , and voted Best Corporate Events Business Leader (South East) England in the Influential Businesswoman Awards.
See below for a full list of her awards or click here to download a PDF.
Jane is an engaging host, presenter, and public speaker. She speaks on a variety of drinks related subjects at conferences, lectures and business and social events in the UK and overseas. She appears regularly on radio and TV talking about alcoholic drinks and pubs both past and present.
Jane is the author of ten non-fiction books including The Philosophy of Cocktails; The Philosophy of Beer, The Philosophy of Gin, and Drink: A Tippler’s Miscellany. Jane is also the author of the novel Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits written under her fiction pen name B.A. Summer.
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The F Word – How Fermentation Rules the World.'
Jane is the author of several books including Drink: A Tippler’s Miscellany, and The Philosophy of Gin.
Jane is the instigator and driving force behind Beer Day Britain, the UK’s national beer day annually on June 15th.
Awards and Accolades For Jane Peyton
Visionary Business Leader
Named as one of 10 Visionary Business Leaders To Follow by World's Leaders magazine
Pommelier
UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) through the Beer & Cider Academy,
Lifetime Achievement
Lifetime Achievement in Beer from the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (British Parliament).
Award
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Beer from the Beer & Cider Marketing Awards.
Sommelier
Britain’s first Beer Sommelier of the Year (awarded by the Beer Academy)
Awards Judge
Judge on BBC Radio 4’s Food & Farming Awards (drinks category)
Educator
Drinks Educator of the Year (awarded by Imbibe Magazine)
Best Craft Beer Promotion
Twice winner of the Best Craft Beer Promotion in the Off-Trade for Beer Day Britain (awarded by Society of Independent Brewers).
Best Craft Beer Promotion
Best Craft Beer Promotion in the On-Trade for Beer Day Britain (awarded by Society of Independent Brewers).
Gold Medal
Gold Award for Writing in the Trade Media, Silver Award for Beer & Food Writing, Silver Award for Best Beer Broadcasting (awarded by the British Guild of Beer Writers).
Award
Woman of the Year award (from the Woman of the Year organisation)
World Record
Guinness World Record Breaker 2016 for hosting the world’s largest beer tasting tutorial (1,236 people)
Ambassador
Drinks Ambassador for Love British Food & Drink