Tim Skelton

Tim is an award-winning beer and travel writer and global expert on Dutch beer cuture. A british-born Dutchman, he has been based in the Netherlands since 1989 and has spent more than 3 decades studying local life through the bottom of a glass.

He doesn’t remember who it was that first weekend who gently prised the pils from his grasp and replaced it with a Duvel, but he is extremely grateful.

Tim’s wife Amanda shares his beery passion and was a willing companion throughout the tears of arduous research.

Writing & Travel

Tim has travelled extensively around the globe for more than a third of a century. In all he has spent more than five years on the road, visiting almost 100 countries to date on every continent bar Antarctica. He settled permanently in the Netherlands in the mid-1990s, where he worked for the Dutch energy and environment agency.

Now a freelance travel journalist, he has written for numerous expat, energy and in-flight publications, has contributed to travel- and beer guides to the Netherlands and Belgium.

Tim is the author of a number of books about beer and travel. He has also contributed to other beer and travel guides, and has written features for dozens of magazines and websites.

Ten facts about Tim

He knows nothing about motorbikes*
He does not run the reptile house at Bristol Zoo*
He did not write about Lutyens and the Great War*
He is not responsible for Snorri Goes to York and Other Stories*
He visits more breweries and pubs than most people – it’s research, honest!
After many years living in the Netherlands he is now Dutch
He is proud of his adopted home city Eindhoven
But he has supported Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club for more than 50 years
He does not sell printer products
His ambition is to visit 120 countries – still a few to go!

* If you are visiting for any of these reasons, you are looking for one of the other Tim Skeltons

Just a few of the stores/online retailers that sell Tim’s books:

Awards:

Useful links:

British Guild of Beer Writers: beerguild.co.uk
PINT: pint.nl
Zythos: zythos.be
CAMRA: camra.org.uk
Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur: nederlandsebiercultuur.nl
Week van het Nederlandse Bier: weekvanhetnederlandsebier.nl
Pub Culture Beercations: pubculturebeercations.com
Belgian Beer Me!: belgianbeerme.com
Podge’s Belgian Beer Tours: podgebeer.co.uk

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