The Pub Curmudgeon

I recently concluded a poll asking the question “What is the earliest you have had an alcoholic drink in a pub in the past month?” There w...

Interesting item on the Independent website today: Ten bar stool myths about booze . Good to see they’ve got “lager is cheaper than water” ...

From time to time I get special offers of either points or money off certain products with the Tesco Clubcard. Generally these are for thing...

Depressing news from a recent survey that “pub diners still want classic, traditional pub dishes such as fish and chips or bangers and mash...

I’ve never really understood the appeal of “perpendicular drinking”, although I suppose proximity to the source of supply is an attraction. ...

It’s been mentioned elsewhere already, but it’s good news that the former Bass Museum (more recently the Coors Visitor Centre) has been sav...

This letter from a resident of Thame in Oxfordshire really sums up what an atrocity the smoking ban has proved to be: The result of that h...

From time to time in the beer blogosphere, the argument crops up that, as cask beer is a high-quality craft product, it should be able to co...

The smoking ban was what prompted the creation of this blog in the first place and, while the blog isn’t solely about the ban, it remains o...

A growing phenomenon nowadays is that of the “ostentatious non-drinker” who, in a public setting, makes a point of ordering soft drinks and ...

I can’t help thinking that Chris Maclean is looking at the pub trade through rose-tinted spectacles when he says he thinks the worst is now...

There’s an interesting observation here from Frank Davis on how pubs are increasingly becoming like private homes, and private homes increa...

This post by Pete Brown and my response to it led me to think about the pervasive but often largely groundless myths that have grown up abo...

Not quite sure what prompted it, but during the past week I’ve been running a poll on people’s opinions of Wetherspoons. And it turns out yo...

There are two excellent pieces by Brendan O’Neill in this week’s Sp!ked about the egregious Professor David Nutt: David Nutt is not the ne...