Marverine Cole

Marverine is a journalist, broadcaster and unashamed beer lover. As a former presenter on Sky News, she's a news and current affairs geek with over 20 years experience in the media industry. Her passion for beer runs just as deep-rooted: Marverine is the first ever woman to win a GOLD British Guild of Beer Writers Award for her self-produced feature for BBC Inside Out about the importance of female customers to the beer & pub industry. She's also conducted TV beer tastings on some of Britain's top daytime TV shows like ITV1's This Morning & The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Live With Gabby on Five and The Great British Food Revival on BBC2. Marverine throws occasional beer & food appreciation evenings for women and she captures all her beer-loving activities in a successful, evangelising video blog called Beer Beauty (www.beerbeauty.co.uk) which aims to spread the message to women & beer novices nationwide about the beauty in beer. She's thrilled to become Britain's newest female beer sommelier and can't wait to see which doors it might open, so she can continue preaching about the brilliance of beer to anyone who'll listen!

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