His focus was to solve practical brewing problems by employing and developing fundamental scientific principles.

A true polymath, he left his mark on virtually all areas of science as applied to brewing, in a career which lasted over 50 years.

Later he took up study of geology, being led to it by pressing requirements in connection with the water supply of Burton.

This entailed a good deal of field surveying, which was embodied in a paper on the Permian Rocks of the Leicestershire Coalfield.

The Institute of Brewing and Distilling awards the Horace Brown Medal to eminent scientist every three years.