The Pub Curmudgeon

Here’s yet more evidence of the severe decline in the pub trade post smoking ban, with a report of sales being 7.3% down since July of this...

Some salutary words for the licensed trade here . As I've said before , the idea that food sales will be the saviour of pubs in the post...

The large-scale consumption of beer makes flatulence a perennial problem in pubs, but I've never heard of anyone actually being banned f...

Transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick, in launching the annual Christmas drink-driving campaign, has stated that the government will be consul...

At last there’s a recognition of reality in December’s What’s Brewing with a front-page headlining article recognising the strong links bet...

Well, what a surprise! Apparently following the smoking ban, more people are having their drinks spiked , not for sexual assualt, but to ste...

There have been a number of articles recently such as this one by Roger Protz and this one by Ian Marchant suggesting that the independent...

I would urge all readers to sign this petition on the Prime Minister's website opposing the proposals of the so-called Alcohol Health ...

Some time ago, I questioned whether the giant pub companies really constituted a viable long-term business model. So far, they have proved ...

Well, I’ve said it many times in the past, but here’s Mark Hastings, communication director at the British Beer & Pub Association, sayin...

Yet another misleading anti-drink scare story from the Daily Mail . Yes, you can buy cans of “value lager” for 22p – but they are generally...

There have been a number of recent reports focusing on Britain’s so-called “obesity epidemic”. But, as Professor Patrick Basham points out ,...

There’s a lot of stuff in November’s What’s Brewing plugging bottle-conditioned ales and wondering why retailers don’t do more to promote t...

One of the pleasures of this time of year is that bottled versions of the Oktoberfest beers from the Munich brewers appear in the shops. Typ...

Excellent article in today's Sunday Times by Simon Jenkins. Voltaire and John Stuart Mill insisted there should be an ideological chas...