About Dominic Roskrow

Dominic Roskrow has been a journalist for more than 20 years and has written about the drinks industry since 1991. He was editor of Whisky Magazine for four years before setting up his own business, and launched Beers of the World Magazine in 2005. He now acts as consultant editor to both titles.

Dominic was trained as a reporter on the Sheffield Star and rose to senior reporter before emigrating to New Zealand and working on the Auckland Sun and the NZ Herald. He returned to Britain in 1991. He was features editor at Publican newspaper and edited Club Mirror, Free Trade Buyer, Pub Business and Sky Preview, before becoming group editor at Paragraph Publishing with responsibility for Whisky Magazine.

Dominic now writes regularly for Whisky Magazine and Malt Advocate, has columns in Travel & Leisure Golf in America and Licensing world in Ireland, and has had features published in Imbibe, Fine Wines Russia, Voyager and P&O’s Portunus Club magazine.

He has visited most of the distilleries of Scotland, Ireland and America, and travels regularly to distilleries across the world in search of new stories.

In 2006 he received the Scotch whisky industry’s highest honour when he was made a Keeper of the Quaich. His first book on Whisky, Need To Know Whiskies, was published by Harper Collins worldwide in March 2008.