About

A white man in his 40s with cropped salt-and-pepper hair and beard, glasses, brown suede biker jacket, and grey sweatshirt, standing by a rusted iron staircase with plants.
Anthony Gladman, photo credit Louise Rose Photography

Anthony Gladman is an award-winning drinks writer and journalist based in London. He writes about beer, cider, spirits and cocktails.

His bylines include Decanter, Club Oenologique, VinePair, Good Beer Hunting, and numerous other publications. His first book, Gin A Tasting Course, was published in 2023 by DK.

In 2022 Anthony won the prestigious Guild of Food Writers Drinks Writing Award. The judges said:

He paints a picture with his words that is wonderfully immersive and makes us want to never stop reading. He writes stories that are compelling, entertaining, precise, rich with hilarity and fizzing with well-researched information about his subject.

In the same year he also received a British Guild of Beer Writers award for his sustainability writing.

Anthony is a Beer and Cider Academy Beer Sommelier and holds a WSET Level 3 Award in Spirits (with distinction). He is an experienced judge at major international competitions including the IWSC, World Gin Awards, World Beer Awards, and Great Taste Awards.

He is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and the British Guild of Beer Writers.


About The Glass

The Glass is an occasional newsletter sharing field notes from my work as a drinks writer.

You'll get personal essays, behind-the-scenes glimpses of book research and article assignments, and stories I couldn't tell anywhere else – from distillery visits to late-night bars, perry orchards to whisky warehouses, and the wider drinks themes that emerge along the way.

There's no regular schedule. I write when I have something worth saying. In practice this settles out around once, sometimes twice a month.

Subscribe and you'll get full access to the archives and the ability to comment and join the conversation.

More importantly, you're helping me build an audience I can speak to directly, without editorial gatekeepers or algorithms deciding what gets seen. That matters.

Anthony Gladman, drinks writer and journalist, sits at a wooden café table by a large window, writing in a small notebook with a fountain pen beside a coffee in a white cup and saucer.
Anthony Gladman, photo credit Louise Rose Photography