The Pub Curmudgeon

Over the years, I’ve dipped into the Good Pub Guide in bookshops or in pubs, but I’ve never actually owned a copy since the first edition f...

I see that Cain’s brewery are in trouble with the taxman . I can’t say I’m entirely surprised, as the Dusanj brothers always gave off a slig...

There has recently been a scare story in the press about the poor take-up of the voluntary scheme on unit labelling of alcoholic drinks. How...

A couple of months ago I made a post querying the claim of Stella Artois to be brewed from pure ingredients because amongst its four ingred...

Given that the government are so keen to reduce the prevalence of smoking, you wouldn’t expect them to be too bothered about keeping the pri...

I see that InBev are planning to launch a 4% ABV version of Stella Artois in the UK. Obviously this is an indication that Peeterman, the exi...

An excellent piece here by Pete Robinson marking the first anniversary of the smoking ban.

After having shown some positive signs of actually being prepared to stand up for the rights of adults to drink alcohol responsibly, CAMRA n...

Yet more evidence, if it were needed, of the catastrophic decline in the pub trade following the smoking ban, with on-trade beer volumes hav...

Potentially the greatest restriction of the freedoms of drinkers we have seen so far in this country is the proposal by the Scottish governm...

There seems to be something about the smoking ban that encourages intolerance between pub users. Perhaps it is because it panders to the reg...

More depressing news , that over 60 pubs are now closed and boarded in five East Lancashire boroughs with a high proportion of small, wet-le...

According to a survey by Deloitte , 20% of adults now visit pubs less often following the smoking ban. I suspect any licensee could have tol...

The recent CAMRA National Conference decided to set up a Task Group with the remit to “research and build extensive evidence on the importan...

Someone complained to me that he had gone out into the rather limited outdoor drinking area of one particular pub and found it full of smoke...