Editorial Team

David Quain - Editor in Chief

Dr David Quain has been Editor in Chief of JIB since 2017 and publishing editor since 2023.  He joined the brewing industry in 1970 as a laboratory assistant at BIRF (now Campden BRI) before obtaining a BSc (Heriot-Watt University) and PhD (University of Liverpool).  He then worked at BIRF/Campden BRI, Bass/Coors/Molson Coors, Heriot-Watt University, University of Nottingham, the Institute of Brewing and Distilling (now Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers) and in consultancy.  David is a Fellow and Cambridge Prize winner of the CIBD and Honorary Professor of Fermentation and Dispense Technology at the University of Nottingham.  His current research focuses on draught beer hygiene and quality.  He has published 14 papers in JIB (1981-2023) and is co-author with Dr Chris Boulton of the book Brewing Yeast & Fermentation.

Editorial Board/Associate Editors

  • Reginald Agu - Scotch Whisky Research Institute, Scotland.
  • Chris Boulton - Boulton Consultancy Ltd, England.
  • Astrid Buica - AstraZeneca, Sweden.
  • Jessika De Clippeleer - Ghent University, Belgium.
  • Evan Evans - The Tassie Beer Dr Consulting, Australia.
  • Brian Gibson - TU Berlin, Germany.
  • Paul Hughes - Oregon State University, USA.
  • David Jenkins - Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
  • Alex Jevons - AB InBev, Wales. 
  • Daniel Kerruish - TU Dublin, Ireland.
  • Scott Lafontaine - University of Arkansas, USA.
  • Imogen Ramsey - Carlsberg, Denmark.
  • Keith Villa - CERIA Brewing Company, USA.