Martyn Cornell

• London

• CAMRA
• Brewery History Society (BHS)
• Pub History Society

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, consultant and educator.

What you can offer as a writer/beer lover?

Martyn Cornell is an internationally recognised expert on beer history, speaking at conferences in Denmark, the Netherlands and the United States. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages, from Danish to Portuguese, and he has written about beer for more than 30 publications as varied as the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, c/o Hops in Sweden, Country Life, Beer Advocate and Brewers’ Guardian. He has worked with brewers in the UK and abroad on projects involving 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 beer styles (2010) and Strange Tales of Ale (2015). He is an eight-times winner in the BGBW 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.