Horst Dornbusch

July 1, 2005 | Appreciation

Skunk in my Beer

It is the private hazard of a professional beer writer that his friends expect to be served great beers when they visit, and I am always happy to oblige. Such was the case recently, when I had a small party ...

May 1, 2004 | History

What Did the Regensburg Beer Taste Like?

Because the Celtic/Germanic tribes were illiterate, our knowledge of the ingredients and processes used to make central European Stone Age beers is sketchy. What we do know is that, until the modern globalization of trade, man has always brewed with ...

May 1, 2004 | History

The World’s Oldest Malt and Brew House

Although much of beer’s dawn is shrouded in obscurity, we do know that beer is as old as civilization itself. We also know that humans have used two fundamentally different ways of brewing: an ancient way of making beer from ...