The Pub Curmudgeon

I recently saw this interesting post on X/Twitter about how smoking bans are a touchstone for a society’s general attitude to freedom. I wo...

Scarcely a week goes by without the present government announcing a policy to antagonise yet another group in society. They have now put fo...

The licensee of the Wonston Arms in Hampshire, a former CAMRA National Pub of the Year, recently had an article published in the Daily Tele...

Budweiser Brewing Group (the new name for AB InBev in the UK) have announced that they are relaunching Boddingtons Cask Bitter , which was l...

In an attempt to combat “food poverty”, the government have announced a pilot scheme to set up state-subsidised restaurants offering cheap ...

The Morning Advertiser recently published figures confirming the continued decline of cask beer sales in the UK, which were reflected on b...

The Daily Telegraph reports that the government have spent over £35,000 on beermats to boast about increasing the minimum wage. This in it...

When you ask people about how to improve the fortunes of the British pub, one issue that often comes up is the beer tie. Remove restrictions...

Earlier this month, Keir Starmer announced that pubs would be allowed to stay open until 1 am on Thursday 8 May, to mark the 80th anniversar...

A few weeks ago, I was browsing the Wetherspoon’s app and noticed that the chicken breast bites were “temporarily unavailable” I thought not...

The Drinks Business reports on concerns that German beer is losing its lustre both at home and abroad. Shocking new figures from the Stat...

I recently saw a couple of posts on X/Twitter expressing dismay at the rising price of beer in pubs. One was taken aback to find a London pu...

At the beginning of last year, Carlsberg-Marston’s announced that they were discontinuing the use of the Union sets at their Burton brewery...

Last month, Wetherspoon’s announced that they were removing steaks, gammon and mixed grills from their menu. This resulted in a predictable...

The Guardian newspaper always has a tendency to regurgitate nonsense on lifestyle issues, and its latest effort is a piece entitled Everyon...