The movement of beer has long impacted various aspects of how we consume beer as well as the world around us. This panel will take a deep look at draft beer service on 1920s and '30s North Atlantic passenger liners and Cunard ships in the 1960s, the ferrying of beer by military transportation to theatres of operations in Europe during World War II, and the modal shift from rail to road of beer traffic in the Edwardian era in the UK, that considers the reasons why and how this reflected on the railways' service.

Martyn Cornell is an internationally recognised expert on the history of beer, brewing and beer styles. He has published four books and hundreds of articles about beer and brewing for more than 30 publications in eight different countries, and spoken at conferences about beer in Denmark, The Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, the United States and Brazil. His work has been translated into languages including Swedish, Spanish, German, Greek, Italian and Portuguese, and he blogs at zythophile.co.uk.

Gary Gillman is a Toronto-based, former lawyer who has studied multiple dimensions of beer and brewing for decades, especially their history. His main platform is the website Beer et Seq, created in 2015 (www.beeretseq.com), which comprises over 1,500 well-researched posts, many of which break new ground. Gary contributes to the UK-based journal Brewery History, and other journals, speaks regularly at conferences, and judges beer for reputed awards bodies.

Since leaving university Tim Holt has pursued a career in scientific publishing, managing both multidisciplinary science and history of science journals. Simultaneously, he has also edited 'Brewery History', a journal devoted to publishing work on the history of brewing and its related industries. Tim is based in London.

Dr David Turner is lecturer and programme director of the University of York's Masters in Railway Studies. His research interests are railway marketing, and distribution, supply chains and logistics in history, with a particular focus on food. In 2016 he received the Business Archives Council's bursary for business history research to look into the relationship between British railways and brewers between 1830 and 1914. He has subsequently published on Whitbread’s bottling operation and the British brewers' adoption of motor haulage before the First World War.