Cheers with Nat

Today's guest is Anouk Lagae, President Core Europe for Duvel Moortgat  - an independent, family-run Belgian brewery - a role she's held for the past two years, after being promoted from her previous role as Chief Marketing Officer. After graduating with a degree in business engineering, Anouk held marketing and management roles at Unilever and Coca-Cola, the latter of which saw her travel the wor...

Today's guest is Nanna Guldbaek, Art Director for Norwegian brewery Lervig . Although Nanna just gradated from her Industrial Design program in Denmark last year, she didn't wait until she finished university to get to work – balancing projects for uni while producing beer labels for Lervig. Nanna's been working with Lervig for two years now, initially as a designer, then transitioning to her curr...

In a Beer with Nat first, this week includes a bonus episode! Lotte Peplow, who you heard from in Episode #008, is so passionate about beer and food pairing, she invited me to her home and prepared three different pairings for us to share... so we could eventually share them with you, as well. Lotte talks us through each dish – a starter, main, and dessert – and explains why each recipe works well...

Today's guest is Lotte Peplow, UK representative for the United States Brewers Association , the trade body for small and independent craft brewers in the States. After graduating from uni, Lotte got her start in PR, working at several different agencies and representing various breweries and beer brands over the years, before deciding to set up her own PR business, Peplow PR. Back in 2006, one of...

Today's guest is Jane Peyton, an award-winning drinks educator, author, speaker, broadcaster, and tour guide who runs her own business – the School of Booze – which she founded back in 2008 to offer training, consultancy, and corporate events. Jane tells us what she was doing before she started the School of Booze and how a Venn diagram helped her to discover her perfect career path after she left...

Today's guest is Ree Scales, People and Development Manager for Mother Kelly's , an independent group of pubs, bars, and bottle shops based here in London. Back in 2015, Ree and I used to work together behind the bar at Mother Kelly's in Bethnal Green , an East London beer institution. She started there in April that year, just a year after Mother Kelly's opened, and has since worked her way up to...

Today's guest is Julie O'Grady, Head of Sales, Marketing, and Events for Liverpool's Neptune Brewery . Although Julie is relatively new to her current full-time role at Neptune, she's been part of the brewery since it opened in 2015, as she and her husband, Les, founded the brewery together. For the first few years, Julie was working full time for the NHS, then Liverpool City Council, and would he...

Today's guest is Jan Rogers, owner and director of Marble Brewery in Manchester. In 1990, Jan turned up for a drink at the Marble Arch pub and – in her words – didn't go home. She began working at the pub and, when it was facing uncertainty in the late '90s, Jan was adamant that karaoke wasn't the fix. Instead, the decision was made to install a small brew kit in the pub and that's how Marble Brew...

Today's guest is Gaia Freytag, Quality Assurance Manager at Birrificio del Ducato in Parma, Italy. While pursing her Master's in Food Science and Technology, Gaia discovered her passion for beer and sought to learn everything she could through self-study, in addition to her coursework. After graduating, she had a short stint interning at a brewery in north Italy, then landed her current role at de...

Today's guest is Alix Shaw, Assistant Packaging Manager at The Five Points Brewing Company in Hackney, East London. Alix is also a co-founder of the Crafty Beer Girls , a community of beer loving ladies who work in the beer industry or just enjoy a good pint.  In addition to monthly meet ups at pubs and bars in London, Crafty Beer Girls has an online community that's grown to nearly 800 women worl...

Today's guest is the incredible Jaega Wise. Jagea is head brewer at Wild Card Brewery in Walthamstow, East London, the brewery she's been a part of since it opened in 2012. When she's not in the brewhouse, you can catch Jaega on the telly, as she's a presenter on Channel 5's The Wine Show . She's also been widely recognized for her work as an equality campaigner for the industry, which has seen he...

Welcome to Beer with Nat. I'm your host, Natalya Watson, but you can call me Nat – everyone else does! On every episode, I'll share a beer and a chat with people who do what they love for a living... they work in the beer industry. From head brewers, to packaging managers, to beer writers, and PRs, they've sat down with me to share their stories about what got them into beer, what they do for a li...