Pete Brown (3)

Pete Brown is Caught by the River's kind of beer writer. Whether it's writing a social history of laughing water or hosting evenings where brews are matched to music, Pete understands beer and pub culture like no other British writer at the moment.

His next book, Shakespeare's Local, tells the 600 year tale of one pub in particular - The George Inn just behind London Bridge. It covers six centuries of British history as seen from the bar stool in the corner of that famous public bar and it's fantastic.