The Pub Curmudgeon

Here’s an effective debunking on the Adam Smith Institute blog of yet another report, this time from the Policy Exchange, claiming that inc...

It’s a common myth that real ale is “flat”. In reality, although it doesn’t display obvious bubbles, this is far from the truth. There shoul...

In a pub yesterday, ticking over nicely, good mix of age groups and diners and drinkers, only one cask beer on, but it was in good nick and ...

It may be hard to believe today, but in the first decade of my drinking career, most of the cask beer in the North-West and the Midlands was...

More nonsense from the bansturbators today with them trying to claim that one in ten men are on the brink of alcoholism . Now you and I woul...

Just a quick clarification - the poll to the left on "What do you drink if there's no cask beer?" allows multiple answers, alt...

There's a good – if somewhat elegiac – article here in the Times by Melanie Reid. Pubs have been around since the 11th century but uns...

Throughout my drinking career there has been a generally understood principle that you start on the weaker drinks and work your way up to th...

For a number of years, I’ve held the view that the giant pub companies were ultimately unsustainable. This was not because of their financia...

I have been tagged by Dick Puddlecote to come up with eight pointless things about myself. So here goes: I am irritated by people who leave...

Rural communities across the country will welcome the news that the police are going to stop routine monitoring of hunts . This recognises t...

In one of the most bizarre examples I’ve ever seen of failure to understand how markets and businesses work, equality campaigners have attac...

There’s been plenty of comment on this story about the Barnsley licensee who has allowed supposedly legal indoor smoking in her pub by desi...

In recent weeks there have been a few examples of representatives of anti-alcohol groups such as Don Shenker of Alcohol Concern praising the...

More evidence that anti-drink campaigners inhabit a different world from the rest of us came in the comments here from Dr Petra Meier (soun...