Your Host

You will be assigned one of our acclaimed creator hosts to lead your experience.

• Hal and Cindy Mooney

  Hal is your beer friend. He’s the guy you text when you’re at a brewery and don’t know what to order. He started Your Beer Friend with his wife Cindy (both of them are Certified Cicerones®) after running a successful brewery tour in Los Angeles since 2012. As a Certified Cicerone®, Hal is eager to chat all things beer including brewery business models, food pairings and why glassware matters. He might even share why you should think twice about freezing your beer mug.

• Jeff Alworth

  Jeff is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. His books include the IACP-winning “Beer Bible, The Secrets of Master Brewers”, “The Widmer Way”, and “Cider Made Simple”. When he’s not working on a book, he can be found writing about beer at his blog, Beervana. He also co-hosts the Beervana Podcast, where he and Oregon State University economics professor Patrick Emerson discuss beer and the economics of beer.

• Mark Dredge

  Mark is a world-renowned beer expert. He’s a best-selling author who’s written seven books about beer, a regular presenter on live TV in the UK, an international beer judge and traveled the world looking for the best-tasting beers. He is the author of the recently-published “A Brief History of Lager: 500 Years of the World’s Favourite Beer”. His other books include; “The New Craft Beer World”, “The Beer Bucket List”, “Cooking With Beer”, “Beer and Food”,  “Craft Beer World”, and “The Best Beer in the World”.