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Jamie Magee
28 Waban Street, Natick, MA 01760 USA
Home: 508.653.7929
E-Mail: jamie@brewingnews.com or jamie@yankeebrew.com
Web Page: www.brewingnews.com

Co-publisher of the Yankee Brew News; Web publisher of BrewingNews.com, on-line home of Great Lakes Brewing News, Yankee Brew News, Southwest Brewing News, Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, Northwest Brewing News and Los Testigos De Cerveza. Web production and E-commerce consultant. German major (Middlebury College) with a fondness for Altbier and Kölsch.

Guy McConnell
4381 Golf Vista Court, Loveland, CO 80537 USA
Home: 970.622.8569 • 303.460.3188
E-Mail: coralreefer@compuserve.com

Beer writer and avid homebrewer, member of the Carolina Brewmasters. Work-related travel, as an engineer for the Exabyte Corporation allows him to sample craft brews from across the country. Contributes operations profiles and articles to Brewing Techniques.

Joseph McCusker
17 West 52nd St, Bayonne, NJ 07002 USA
Home: 201.858.0143 • Work: 201.712.1200x25 • Fax: 877.676.7679
E-Mail: jmccusker@metlife.com

Freelance writer, work has appeared in Ale Street News. Articles have included the topics of a pub crawl in San Francisco and a review of beers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Bill Metzger
214 Muegel Road, East Amherst, NY 14051-1612 USA
Work: 716.689.5841 • Home: 716.689.7421 • Fax: 716.689.5789
E-Mail: bill@brewingnews.com
Web Page: www.brewingnews.com

Freelance journalist on beer, brewing, and breweries for newspapers and magazines. Publisher and editor of Great Lakes Brewing News. Regularly contributes to Southwest Brew News, BarleyCorn, and American Brewer. Introduced regional brewspaper for New England, the revised Yankee Brew News, in 1998. Specializes in beer journeys of Los Testigos de Cerveza, and research on Belgian-style beers.

Alan Moen
6701 Entiat River Rd, Entiat, WA 98822-9735 USA
Home: 509.784.5101 • Fax: 509.784-9404
E-Mail: alanmoen@televar.com

Freelance writer/editor/cartoonist, covering the world of beer, wine and spirits. Associate editor, American Brewer & Distiller; Contributing editor, Market Watch, Editor, Northwest Brewing News. Articles and cartoons in Brew Your Own, Brewing News, New Brewer , Practical Winery & Vineyard, Wine Press Northwest, and Zymurgy. Winner of eight Quill & Tankard Awards. First runner up, Beer Writer of the Year, 1999.

Gary Monterosso
9 Tunbridge Dr, Bridgeton, NJ 08302 USA
Phone: 856.455.8242
E-Mail: whatzontap@aol.com

Writer whose columns appear in BARBECUE & Beverage, Ed Hitzel's Restaurant Magazine, Ed Hitzel's Restaurant Newsletter, and Mid-Atlantic Brewing News. Contributor to American Brewer. "WhatzOnTap" radio segments are heard throughout the Delaware Valley. Co-founder of New Jersey Association of Beerwriters. 2001 Quill & Tankard award winner. Guest speaker.

Mikko Montonen
Korkeavuorenkatu 24 A 9, Fin-00130 Helsinki, FINLAND
Phone/Fax: +358.9.642.147 • Mobile: +358.50.511.5375
E-Mail: mikko.montonen@kolumbus.fi

Experienced freelance journalist. Specialist in beer, whiskey, wine and food. Author of Finnish Brewers' Society Beers Guide. Experienced beer judge and lecturer. Co-organiser of the Helsinki Beer Festival.

Marty Nachel
15115 South Primrose Lane, Orland Park, IL 60462, USA
Home: 708.532.5247 • Work: 708.342.BEER • Fax: 708.342.1225
E-Mail: aleconner@aol.com

Freelance writer on beer and brewing. Author of Beer Across America (Storey Communications, 1995), Beer for Dummies (IDG Books, 1996). Homebrewing for Dummies (IDG Books, 1997). Contributor to Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia '99. Head writer and editor for Beer Across America beer and homebrew newsletters. Contributor to various national and regional print and online beer publications. BJCP Certified Beer Judge and beer evaluator at Beverage Testing Institute, Great American Beer Festival. Fifteen year homebrewer and collector of breweriana. Co-owner of BEER GEAR homebrew supply shop and beer specialty store, Tinley Park, Illinois. NAGBW Beer Writer of the Year, second runner-up, 1996. Quill & Tankard awards: Gold, Food Feature ('96); Silver, Book ('97); Silver, General ('97); Food Feature ('00); Bronze, Book ('96); Bronze, Column ('96); Honorable Mention, Beer Styles ('00).

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John Palmer
255 N. Grand Ave Monrovia, CA 91016
Home:. 626.357.9658 • Work: 626.574.4472 • Fax:. 626.574.4876
E-Mail: jjpalmer@gte.net
Web Page: www.howtobrew.com and www.realbeer.com/jjpalmer

Metallurgical engineer by day, beer writer, speaker, and BJCP judge whenever there is an opportunity. John has been homebrewing since 1991 and has written several articles for Brewing Techniques and Zymurgy. He was featured on the Home and Garden Channel's "What's Your Hobby" program in 1996. Author of How To Brew, an online book for beginnning brewers at www.howtobrew.com, and available in hardcopy from Defenestrative Publishing (2001).

Bob Paolino
825 Troy Drive Madison, WI 53704 USA
Home: 608.249.7126 • Fax: 707.897.1441
E-Mail: nowgohaveabeer@brewingnews.com or rpaolino@earth.execpc.com

Columnist, Great Lakes Brewing News . Covers Wisconsin and upper Midwest breweries. Vice President (1993-2000), Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild (MHTG), organizing committee for the annual Great Taste of the Midwest, (1993-date) North America's second longest-running craft brewers festival. Beer Judge Certification Program: active judge since 1993. Articles have appeared in Beer & Tavern Chronicle, Brew Your Own, Canadian Amateur Brewers Association and elsewhere. Quill and Tankard awards: 1998 brewery profile -- honorable mention. 2000 travel feature--silver.

Steve Parkes
908 Ross Drive, Woodland, CA 95776 USA
Home: 530.662.1054 • Work: 530.661.7497 • Fax: 530.661.9023
E-Mail: parmck@mother.com

Brewer and brewing educator. Brewed professionally for 16 years and now is owner/operator of the American Brewers Guild, a brewing school specializing in Internet training. Technical editor of BrewPub Magazine.Column in Brewing Techniques ("Gleanings from the Field"). Editorial review board of Brew Your Own. Published articles in all three. GABF judge, World Beer Cup judge, IBS Conference speaker, National Brewpub Conference speaker.

Duncan Perry
PO Box 1545, Lancaster, PA 17608 USA
Home: 717.396.9264 • Fax: 717.295.3052
E-Mail: bbb2@earthlink.com

Editor of Beer & Breweriana, freelance writer about beer, brewery history, breweriana, and Eastern Europe. Articles in American Brewer, BeeR the Magazine, and in Czech magazines Praha, and Velvet.

Craig Pinhey
12 Beach Drive, Rothesay, New Brunswick, E2E 4X3 CANADA
Home: 506.849.3855 • Work: 506.658.8655
E-Mail: brufrog@nb.sympatico.ca

Jeff Platt
Cream City Suds, P.O. Box, 1251, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
Phone/Voicemail: 414.444.8763 • Fax: 414.444.8792
E-Mail: info@creamcitysuds.com
Website: www.creamcitysuds.com

Publisher-Editor: Cream City Suds, Windy City Suds, Twin City Suds. Author: "Beer City," Shepherd Express Metro (Milwaukee). Host: "The Suds Show with Whispering Jeff," WZER, WWTC. Host: "Micro Minute," WAUK Sports Radio. Host: "Suds Show Live," Milwaukee, Chicago. Vice President of the Museum of Beer & Brewing (Milwaukee).

Michael Plott
1307 N. Heritage Ave.
Fayetteville, AR 72704
Work: 479.443.7706
E-Mail: zymer@operamail.com

Brewer for 5 years at Ozark Brewing Co., Fayetteville, AR. Arkansas Columnist for Southwest Brewing News.

Michael Rasmussen
4005 SE Boise Portland, OR 97202 USA
Phone: 503.771.9502
E-Mail: michale@patch.com
Web Page: http://mikeraz.patch.com/writing

Portland based freelance beer writer and the current Oregon Trail correspondent for Celebrator Beer News. BJCP certification, 15+ years of homebrewing, and tours though the US, Europe and Bejing trained my palate. You can review my beer writing at http://mikeraz.patch.com/writing.

Susan Reigler
525 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 USA
Home: 502.267.0195 • Work: 502.582.7078 • Fax: 502.582.4665
E-Mail: sreigler@aol.com
Web Page: www.tipworld.com

Proud graduate of Oldenberg Beer Camp and Oxford University. Restaurant critic since 1992 for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Writes the daily Beer Tip on Tip World, and has also written for Malt Advocate, Wine Enthusiast, and drinks.com. Winner of NAGBW Silver Tankard Award for Beer Feature, 1995.

Editor of Brew Your Own and Winemaker Magazines. Also: co-owner of both magazines with husband (and publisher) Brad.

James S. Roberts
7635 Hennings Way, Anchorage, AL 99504 USA
Home: 907.337.9630 • Work: 907.563.5530 • Fax: 907.561.8986
E-Mail: jroberts@doyondrilling.com
Web Page: www.anchoragepress.com

Freelance writer on beer and brewing. 1999 Quill and Tankard recipient (feature writing). Articles and reviews have appeared in Brewing Techniques and Zymurgy. Avid homebrewer and participant on the Homebrew Digest.

Lucy Sholley
75 Arlington St., Boston, MA 02026 USA
Home: 781.326.0217 • Work: 617.368.5165 • Fax: 617.368.5537
E-Mail: lucy.sholley@bostonbeer.com

Director of Communications for Samuel Adams beers.

Mark Silva
2325 3rd Street, #426, San Francisco, CA 94107 USA
Work: 415.522.1516 x304 • Fax: 415.522.1535
E-Mail: silva@realbeer.com
Web Page: www.realbeer.com

Co-founder of the Real Beer Page, the largest source for beer information on the Internet. Writes frequently about the role of the World Wide Web and the growth of the specialty beer market. 1999 Gold Tankard winner for editorials in Real Beer Page mail.

Dawnell Smith
3507 Sagan Circle, Anchorage, AK 99517 USA
Phone: 907.243.5887 • Fax: call first
E-Mail: writeous@alaska.net

Former brewer who now writes columns, articles, features, profiles, how-to articles, and other written work about beer, brewery operations, home brewing, and other topics. Dawnell's work has been published in the Anchorage Daily News, American Brewer, Brew Your Own, BrewPub Magazine, The Brewer, Northwest Brewing News, and other periodicals.

Gregg Smith
2845 Holly Place, Idaho Falls, ID 83402 USA
Home: 208.524.0970 • Work: 208.533.4086 • Fax: 208.524.6490
E-Mail: GSmithbeer@aol.com

Beer Writer of the Year 1997, runner up -1996, 1998, 1999. Author, historian, consultant, judge (GABF 94 - present and World Beer Cup). Authored 4 books, including The Beer Drinker's Bible and Beer in America. Co- publisher/editor, Beer & Tavern Chronicle. Prolific contributor to numerous publications. Associate Director - BJCP. Past Co-chair of Guild and Associate Director - BJCP. Appearances - TV & Radio, Smithsonian, Culinary Institute of America, etc. 18 NAGBW Quill & Tankard awards: 6Gold, 1 silver, 6 bronze, 5 HM.

Journalist, freelance writer, specialty topics include: beers of the southwest USA, Belgium, Germany; brewery safety and environmental issues; beer travel; fictional pieces. Managing editor and contributor: Southwest Brewing News, Rocky Mountain Brewing News, HWBTA Advocate. Contributor: Zymurgy, American Brewer, Yankee Brew News, newsletters, technical texts. Copy writer, formulations for Mr. Beer home microbrewery. Tour guide, Belgium.

Tess and Mark Szamatulski
117 Horse Tavern Rd., Trumbull, CT 06611 USA
Home: 203.261.8329
E-Mail: szam@netmeg.net

Mark and Tess Szamatulski are the authors of CloneBrews: Homebrew Recipes for 150 Commercial Beers and authors and publishers of Beer Captured: Homebrew Recipes for 150 World Class Beers.They write the Style column for Brew Your Own magazine along with other features for BYO and Winemaker. They own Maltose Express, Connecticut's largest homebrew and winemaking supply store.

Freelance writer for BrewPub Magazine (also on Editorial Review Board), Southwest Brewing News (Queen of Quaff column), All About Beer, New Brewer, and other publications. Graduate of United States Brewers Academy, started 1st micro in Southwest in 1982, currently part-owner of North by Northwest brewpub in Austin. Advisor to author of Craft Brewing chapter of The Practical Brewer, Co-Chair of Long Range Planning Committee of international Master Brewers Association of Americas (MBAA). Past president of MBAA-District Texas.

Martin Wooster
PO Box 8093, Silver Spring, MD 20907 USA
Phone/Fax: 301.565.7820
E-Mail: ggghostie@aol.com

Staff writer and book reviewer for Mid-Atlantic Brewing News and book reviewer for All About Beer and Mead-Anderings.

Jim Zebora
160 Dexter Ave, Meriden, CT 06450 USA
Home: 203.235.1758 Work: 203.964.2420 Fax: 203.964.3773
E-Mail: jimzebora@cox.net

Author of "What's Brewing," a monthly beer column carried by The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time (Combined circ 42,000), 75 Tresser Boulevard, Stamford, CT 06904, and in other Tribune Co. newspapers. What's Brewing addresses all beer-related topics. Also business editor at The Advocate /Greenwich Time.