Horst Dornbusch

Horst Dornbusch is a well-known consultant in the international brewing industry as well as a leading author and speaker about beer. He writes in English and German and has contributed hundreds of articles to North American and European periodicals for beer lovers and brewing professionals alike. Horst Dornbusch is the Associate Editor of the The Oxford Companion to Beer (Sept. 2011) and the author of The Ultimate Almanac of World Beer Recipes (2010), Bavarian Helles (2000), Altbier (1999), PROST! The Story of German Beer (1997), and a forthcoming beer recipe book for homebrewers in German (Sept. 2012). He is interviewed frequently on the history, styles, technology, and marketing of beer by broadcast media from Austrian TV to the BBC, New Zealand National Radio, and NPR, and has been the script consultant to two Discovery Channel programs. In the 1990s, he founded an award-winning microbrewery in Massachusetts. Before he made a career change to the world of beer, he worked for two decades as a writer, editor, and publications manager at The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Reader’s Digest, and Siemens Medical Electronics. He was born and raised in Germany, was a Fulbright Scholar, and holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.A. from Brandeis University.