Following retirement from the university as Distinguished Professor Emeritus, he became Senior Quality Adviser to the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.

In addition to a career in the world of beer, Bamforth is also an extensively published author in English association football.

He wrote regularly in the match day programmes of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Walsall and Shrewsbury Town, but also has penned numerous magazine articles and conducted many interviews for the nostalgia site Wolvesheroes.com.

He has written two soccer books, most recently the autobiography of Wolves, Nottingham Forest, Derby County and England winger Alan Hinton, who became a North American legend as a player with Vancouver Whitecaps and as a coach with Seattle Sounders.

Bamforth's research interests in malting and brewing are diverse and have embraced all raw materials, process stages and product.