The Pub Curmudgeon

The IPPR think-tank has recently published a report entitled Pubs and Places: the social value of community pubs , which attacks the governm...

There has been some severe criticism of Wetherspoon’s here . Apparently they are downmarket drinking dens favoured by alcoholics. This may b...

Back in the mid-80s, when we were still allowed only a measly two hours’ drinking time on Sunday lunchtime, my local pub would be standing r...

Had a trip to Nottingham today – there seemed to be some kind of morris dancing festival on. It’s a very characterful place, which I always...

Reading this interview with the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, it struck me that he had fallen into the common trap of confusing minim...

Unintended consequences seem to be a speciality of the present government, and one of the finest examples yet seen is the report that string...

There’s a quite astonishing piece in The Publican from Hamish Champ in which he alleges that belligerent smokers are helping to close pubs ...

I recently ran a poll with the question “How much would you consider exorbitant for a pint of 4.0% ABV beer?” There were 40 votes, broken do...

There’s a huge amount of information around about cask beers, where and how they are brewed, what they taste like, and where they are availa...

The estimable Sir Liam Donaldson spurts forth on yet another major health hazard. (h/t again Mr Eugenides )

I spotted this review of the Crown in Stockport, which was recently one of the three runners-up in CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year award. ...

There’s an excellent article by Rod Liddle in this week’s Spectator , with a distinct tone of “I told you so.” Now, as we all expected, the...

As usual, Pete Robinson pulls no punches in this analysis of the woes of the pub trade and the futility of minimum pricing. Does anyone, in...

You wouldn’t believe it from reading some of the hysterical commentary in the media over the past few days, but in fact alcohol consumption ...

There’s an excellent rebuttal of Sir Liam Donaldson’s proposals for minimum alcohol pricing from The Zythophile , a blog I must confess I h...