Martyn Cornell

1 week ago | beerconnoisseur.com | Martyn Cornell

You have read the claim, I am sure, in a book or magazine article: the Hymn to Ninkasi, a 4,000-year-old poem from ancient Mesopotamia (more or less modern Iraq), written on clay tablets in the ancient writing method known as cuneiform, in the ancient and long-vanished language called Sumerian, contains “the oldest beer recipe in history.” The poem, dedicated to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer, is claimed to contain a description of “the detailed brewing process” that “modern...

2 months ago | zythophile.co.uk | Martyn Cornell

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.

2 months ago | zythophile.co.uk | Martyn Cornell

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 on June 4. I feel I ought to be much more excited.

Jan 20, 2025 | msn.com | Martyn Cornell

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Jan 13, 2025 | msn.com | Martyn Cornell

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