Terry was born and educated in London and holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from London University; he moved to the U.S. in 1977. Terry started brewing some fifty years ago, and has been brewing at home ever since. He started writing about home and commercial brewing in various magazines in England, and published his first book Dr. Foster’s Book of Beer in England. In the U.S., he gave many presentations on technical and practical aspects of brewing, and wrote for several magazines, such as Zymurgy, All About Beer, American Brewer, and Brew Your Own. Terry initiated the Classic Beer Styles Series with Pale Ale in 1990. This was followed by Porter, and in 1999, a revised and larger second edition of Pale Ale.