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.

And don’t forget that the big porter and stout history is published in less than three months from today – pre-order it here