About

HopZine.com is a beer review and discussion site devoted to tasting the worlds greatest ales and drinking in great pubs and places. Also, and perhaps more than that initial sentence, it’s about the editors and their journey through beer.

Anyway, enough blurb! Who are these editors?

Contemplation is one of many characteristics that a beer reviewer must have. This is Matt displaying a rough version of what he think might be contemplation

Matt Taylor (MT)
twitter.com/steelrazor

Matt’s a musician, technician, gamer, film-geek, and now a humble appreciator of fine beers (conoisseur’s a bit heavy!).

In the first year of his life he would become a part-time model (appearing on one leaflet for nappies). Little did he know that he would go on to be in the top-group at school for spelling and receive a 100% mark for his GCSE Music composition coursework.

You can check out his music at: http://www.steelrazor.co.uk

If you find that the web page is doing funny things, keeps changing or isn’t how you remember it, then Matt is tinkering around with its inner workings.

Drinking out of a boot is much more appealing if the boot is made of glass

Rob Derbyshire (RD)
twitter.com/bgrtrob

Rob is a graphic designer, husband, expert stew chef, obsessive MMA fan and unrelenting buyer of fine ales… Connoisseur? Maybe one day…still working at that one

By day I work at a national museum that may have some connection to media. I’m often scared that my repeat visits to Beeradvocate.com and Ratebeer will one day be flagged up by the IT system and result in a long winded and awkward disciplinary hearing.

I love finding new beers, new pubs, new experiences and sharing them with my friends and family.

Drinking beer from a glass boot is not as easy as it looks, but is twice as exciting!