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Martyn Cornell

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Published: June 11, 2025 15:39

16 June 1952 – 01 June 2025 It is with great sadness I have to announce the sudden passing of my brother Martyn. For those that wish to attend his funeral it will be held at: Hanworth Crematorium (TW13 5JH) Monday 30th June 2025 @ 12.20 with a small wake…

No, porter was NOT named after ‘the porters of Covent Garden, Smithfield and Billingsgate’

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Published: May 26, 2025 11:56

As a historian of beer I am, of course, delighted that Guinness is progressing with its latest Open Gate project in Covent Garden, London, bringing brewing back to the site of the former Woodyard brewery, once one of the biggest porter breweries in London.…

Me talking about porter

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Published: March 14, 2025 21:45

I confess I love the opportunity to wax on about the history of beer, and I was delighted to be interviewed by the Cardiff home-brewer and podcaster Andy Taylor on the subject of porter, which ended up as 40 minutes of yakking by me. If you want to know…

Porter and Stout: The Complete History will be published on June 4

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Published: February 22, 2025 12:17

When you’ve been working on a project for more than seven years, finally being given a finishing date is almost anti-climactic. I started writing what became Porter and Stout: A Complete History in January 2018. I’ve now been told it is due to be published…

No, the ‘Hymn to Ninkasi’ is NOT a recipe for making Sumerian beer

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Published: September 27, 2024 07:38

It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, known from three fragmentary clay tablets found in and…

In search of a Paraguayan beer style

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Published: August 30, 2024 03:22

Warming myself at midnight by an open-air firepit over which half a cow was being slowly and expertly roasted, while 50 or so slightly drunk South American brewers sang a word-perfect rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody loudly and enthusiastically was not a…

Around the World in 80 Beers: a journey through time rather than in space

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Published: August 3, 2024 07:48

The sub-title of my new book, Around the World in 80 Beers, is “A Global History of Brewing”. I hope this indicates to potential purchasers that the book is considerably more than just another round-up of international beers in the tradition that goes back…