The Pub Curmudgeon

This song - Roots by Show of Hands - is a superb and pointed expression of true English patriotism:

I’ve never been wholly convinced by the view that supermarket alcohol prices are killing pubs. Yes, off-trade beer is cheaper, and has been ...

A couple of months ago, I was told about how the owners of Samuel Smiths’ brewery had apparently acquired a financial stake in a company ma...

Realistically, minimum alcohol pricing was never going to be introduced. There was a major potential conflict with competition law, the effe...

So, within a few years, retailers of tobacco products will have to keep them under the counter or in closed cabinets. As is often the case,...

Excellent article here from the estimable Sp!ked about the present government's Puritanical, miserabilist attitude to pubs and alcohol...

In a classic case of unintended consequences, it seems that the government’s plans to restrict alcohol promotions will hit middle-class wine...

This blog posting makes the point very clearly that newspaper claims that beer is being sold by supermarkets for less than water are grossl...

I foresaw back in July that the launch of 4% ABV Stella Artois would lead to the demise of Stella's existing little brother Peeterman, ...

How typical of Alastair Darling to cut VAT as an economic sweetener, but at the same time increase duty on alcohol, tobacco and road fuel to...

Inevitably the current “credit crunch”, “economic downturn” or whatever is going to lead to the closure of large numbers of pubs. But, iron...

Some very wise words from Archie Norman, former Chief Executive of ASDA, about the need for on and off-trade to stand together to resist go...

You can’t really blame Carlsberg for wanting to close the Tetley brewery in Leeds , given that it is on a prime city-centre site. But surely...

It's hard to beat this story for commitment to pubgoing and drinking: Drinkers on longest ever pub crawl reach 14,000th pub No doubt Daw...

It’s amazing how this BBC news article about innovation in the beer market manages to completely avoid mentioning real ale. In reality, it ...