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BEER AND WOMEN GROUP TO STAGE TASTING FOR FEMALE MPS


Beer and women group Dea Latis is joining forces with the Parliamentary Beer Group and British Beer & Pub Association to bring beer to women MPs at an event in Westminster on Tuesday 21st November.


As well as tasting a selection of beers from across the country, matched to different foods by Beer Sommelier Annabel Smith, guests will meet some of the many women who work in brewing and related industries, from grain to glass. Dea Latis will also be revealing the results of recent research into women and beer at the event.


Unique Hospitality Management has appointed Charlie Barr to the new position of Group Operations Chef.


Barr, who is responsible for supporting new openings, team and menu development, menu profitability and food safety, joins the company from Jamie Oliver Restaurants, where she spent 4.5 years as International Operations/ Development Chef supporting openings in countries including Canada, Brazil, Australia and Russia.


She reports to Chef/Director Mark Austin who oversees menu development and chef recruitment across the company’s seven pubs.


The company offers quarterly changing menus with dishes cooked from fresh ingredients and handcrafted by skilled chefs.


QUALITY FOOD OFFER


A programme of food-led events is also run at the pubs including weekly steak nights, chicken nights, burger nights and regular themed food and drink dinners such as game nights.


Barr, who has 18 years’ experience as a chef, said: “I’m really excited to be working with the like-minded Unique Hospitality Management team who share


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The company operates under the Enterprise Investment Scheme overseen by Rockpool Investments. It operates two divisions - Epic Pubs, which are its freehold pubs and Heroic Pubs which are its leasehold pubs.


Picture above: Charlie Barr joins Unique Hospitality Management from Jamie Oliver Restaurants.


the same passion for quality food made with great ingredients and who continually invest in and develop their kitchen teams.”


She adds: “I am looking forward to working in a managed business where chefs still have the opportunity to demonstrate their own creative flair on menus and work with amazing produce from quality British suppliers.”


EXPANSION PLANS


Further openings are planned, with the company led by managing director Andrew Coath, aiming to have 15 pubs by 2019.


Unique Hospitality Management has opened two new pubs this year - its first steak and seafood concept site The Wheatsheaf Pub & Grill at Bow Brickhill, near Milton Keynes and its first pub in Oxfordshire - The Fox Inn at Boars Hill, a Star Pubs & Bars lease, which opened last month.


Smith said, “The aim of our event at Westminster is to remind MPs that women play a vital role in producing our national drink and introduce them to some of the talented women involved in it.


“Women in this country drink less beer than in the USA and most European countries. At Dea Latis, we’re committed to narrowing this gap by introducing more women to beer and we hope this event creates some new, influential advocates for our cause.”


The event is hosted by Ruth Smeeth MP, Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group. She said, “We’re delighted to be partnering with Dea Latis to bring together women working in parliament and women working in the brewing industry, from grain to glass. It promises to be an enjoyable and informative evening and we’re confident guests will leave the tasting seeing beer in an entirely new light”


Brigid Simmonds, Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, added, “With a growing number of female MPs taking a keen interest in beer and brewing, the BBPA is delighted to support this Parliamentary celebration of women in beer.”


Dea Latis has staged two previous beer tastings for MPs in 2015 and 2013. The upcoming event is by invitation only, and is expected to attract some 80 guests drawn from parliament and across the brewing industry: brewers, maltsters, hop growers, licensees and off-trade retailers, beer sommeliers and writers.


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