Cyril J J Berry (1918 – 4 November 2002) was a writer known for his book First Steps in Winemaking, which has sold more than three million copies worldwide.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, homebrewing in Britain was limited by taxation, prohibition, and scarcity of ingredients during wartime.
One of the earliest modern attempts to regulate private production was the Inland Revenue Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict.
Berry was instrumental in this phenomenon as one of the founders of the first British amateur winemakers' circle in Andover, Hampshire and three other English counties in the 1950s.
It is the source for the simplest common method for measuring alcohol by volume in wine:[5] Prior to his retirement in 1967, Berry worked as a newspaper editor, most notably for the Andover Advertiser.