Tim is a beer industry professional & advocate. His passion is to make other people as excited by great beer and pubs as he is.
Tim was born in south London, but predominantly raised in Hertfordshire. He studied fine art at Reading University but found his true passion by working in pubs and bars, whilst he studied.
After graduating in 2012, Tim interned at Longdog brewery, for a year, as a brewery assistant. A year later he moved back to Hertfordshire and started working for Mad Squirrel brewery, where he worked for the next seven years in a variety of roles. In 2015, he qualified as a Beer Sommelier, through the Institute of Brewing and Distilling, at the time he was one of the youngest beer sommeliers in the country.
In 2020 Tim left Mad Squirrel, to join Wells & Co (previously Charles Wells) to work at Brewpoint, their new brewery, based in Bedford. He continues to work at Brewpoint today as part of the sales, brand & marketing team.
In his career Tim has worked in a variety of roles, from on & off trade management, sales, marketing, e-commerce, training & communications. He has lead in excess of 1000 brewery tours, talks and beer tastings in the last decade.
Tim is active online under the ‘beerwithtim’ handle on several platforms. Beer & pub writings, in a range of styles and topics, will feature on this blog. Visual beer & pub content can be found on his Instagram page. Tim also contributes written content to several print and online publications.
In January 2025 Tim was accepted as a full member of The British Guild of Beer Writers.
All views expressed on all ‘beerwithtim’ channels are the personal opinions of Tim Hickford at the time of writing and do not represent the views of any employers, contractors or associates, past or present.
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