Martyn Cornell

• author
• beer-historian
• consultant
• event-spking
• journalist

• East Anglia

• mba

• beer-judging-exp
• how-to-judge-beer
• international-beer-judge
• world-beer-awards-judge

• bhs
• camra
• north-american-guild-of-beer-writers
• phs

• beer-education
• beer-styles
• beer-travel
• historical
• history-of-beer
• managingalcohol relatedhealthproblems

What is the one thing you'd like to tell visitors to the Guild's website?

Award-winning and widely published historian of beer, brewing and beer styles, author of eight books on beer, consultant, speaker on beer and brewing history and educator.

What you can offer as a writer/beer lover?

Martyn Cornell is an internationally recognised expert on the history of beer, brewing and beer styles, speaking at conferences in Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Chile and the United States. His work has been translated into more than half a dozen languages, from Danish to Portuguese, and he has written about beer for more than 30 publications as varied as the Guardian, the  South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, c/o Hops in Sweden, Bar&Beer in Spain, What’s Brewing, Country Life, the Master Brewers of America Technical Quarterly, Beer Advocate, Craft Beer and Brewing and Brewers’ Guardian, as well as the Springer Publications Geography of Beer series. He has worked with brewers in the UK and abroad, including the United States, Sri Lanka and Brazil, on projects involving beer styles and beer history, and with the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, and appeared on radio and television talking about beer. He is an IBD-certified beer judge, judging at competitions in the UK and abroad. His books include Beer: The Story of the Pint (2003), Amber Gold and Black, a history of British beer styles (2010, published in Brazil in 2022 as A História das Cervejas Britânicas), Strange Tales of Ale (2015), Around the World in 80 Beers (2024) and Porter and Stout: A Complete History (2025). He is an eight-times winner in the BGBW awards, and a three-times winner in the North American Guild of Beer Writers awards.

What do you like most about being a Guild of Beer Writers member?

The guild gives those who love communicating about beer as well as drinking it the chance to meet those who love brewing beer and those who love selling beer, to everybody’s mutual pleasure and benefit.