British Beer Sommelier of the Year 2014 - 2015
1. What’s your name?
Jane Peyton
2. What’s your home country?
My home country is the United Kingdom
3. What’s your job?
My job is beer sommelier
4. What is the most ‘love-it-or-hate-it’ drink you have ever tasted?
The most beloved drink is beer, the most hated is fermented mare’s milk that I drank in Mongolia
5. What’s your favorite cuisine?
Indian!
6. Why did you decide to be a sommelier?
I became a beer sommelier because I absolutely love beer, the taste of it, the culture, the history, and what it does to people.
7. Red or white?
Red
8. Dark or Blond?
Dark
9. Salty or sweet?
Salty
10. What’s a typical sommelier routine?
A typical sommelier routine is evangelizing about beer, tasting it, researching it, writing, and trying to convert people to drink beer
11. Why glass matters when we speak about drinks?
Glass matters when we talk about drinks because it gives no flavour to what you’re eating or drinking, it’s also a sustainable material, and it looks elegant when it’s on the table.
12. Besides Belgium, what’s the last European country you have been to?
France
13. Give us a tip for our next drink.
Your next drink should be a glass of ale from Britain, for bitterness, for the wonderful fruity aromas, you get, and just for the high quality.
14. Finish the following sentence: Heaven is where the police are British, the lovers are French, the mechanics are German, the chefs are Italians, the friends are Spanish and the wine is…
Beer!
15. Finish the following sentence: Heaven is where the police are British, the lovers are French, the mechanics are German, the chefs are Italians, the friends are Spanish and the beer is…
British.
On Friday March 6th 2015 Jane Peyton, together with taste experts Andreas Larsson, Swedish Wine Sommelier, voted Best Sommelier of the World; Arno Steguweit, Europe’s first Water Sommelier from Germany; Caroline Furstoss, French Wine Sommelier 2014; Professor Giorgio Calabrese, a renowned Italian Nutritionist; Guillermo Cruz, voted Spain’s Best Sommelier in 2014 and Christophe Baert, chef and Vice-President of in the Belgian Euro-Toques Association met in Brussels to define together the main tastes of Europe. Here’s what has happened.
Healthy packaging, healthy families: What makes glass the healthy choice?
Did you know: every week, the average person ingests up to one credit card worth of plastic from food, water, or the air? You are what you eat – and that includes how it’s packaged. That’s why when it comes to our favourite food and drink, we need to look beyond the label.
Why does coke taste better in glass?
Soft drinks come in different tastes, shapes, and sizes. From coke to club soda, ginger beer or fruit sodas – there is a flavour for everyone. The most famous of all is probably Coca-Cola, the dark brown carbonated soft drink, campaigns, but which tastes good all year round.
But what is the best way to enjoy your favourite soda? Do soft drinks taste better when they come in glass compared to other packaging materials? Why did Coca-Cola decide to design their unique bottles with glass? And what is the best way to store coke at home to keep you drink fizzy and fresh for when you decide to open it? Read on to find the answers.
Choose Health, Choose Glass
We’re all trying to live better and more sustainably, from how we consume and dispose of products to how we look after our own health. Yet packaging remains crucial to preserve products through delivery and storage, and to ensure longer shelf stability of products once purchased. By offering a material that’s not just endlessly recyclable but remains food safe throughout the closed-loop recycling process, glass packaging continues to provide strong sustainable benefits for the health of both people and planet. Glass is never a waste.
