Julia Herz

Julia Herz is the Craft Beer Program Director for the Boulder, Colorado based Brewers Association (BA) and Publisher of CraftBeer.com. She has been featured by the Food Network ‘Unwrapped' Series, interviewed on National Public Radio, Featured on American Public Media’s Splendid Table, Sirius/XM, CNBC Squawk Box and Closing Bell, Fox News, GMA Live and thousands of other media outlets.

She is a BJCP Certified beer judge, an award-winning homebrewer, a Certified Cicerone®, co-author of the free CraftBeer.com Beer & Food Course, co-author of Beer Pairing published by Voyageur Press, 2015 and writes for the Craft Beer Muses Blog, Huff Post Taste, BrewersAssociation.org and The New Brewer Magazine.

Her areas of expertise include: Resources and education on craft beer, general statistics on the craft brewer segment, beer styles and trends plus craft beer and food pairing. In her role at the Brewers Association she serves as an advocate for and educator about U.S. craft brewers, and is a spokesperson for the Association.

A graduate of University of South Florida, she previously worked at CNN in Washington D.C. She is married, has 2 children and lives in Lyons, Colorado.