11th June 2025

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:

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...

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 the difference between porter and stout, why porter is called porter, how porter and stout became a world-wide beer style, when porter died out in Britain and Ireland and who bought it back, listen here....

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...