The Pub Curmudgeon

Directors (in the past known as Directors’ Bitter) allegedly took its name from a special beer set aside for the directors of the Courage b...

I see that the government have now appointed Bob Neill as Community Pubs Minister , whatever that may mean. It’s all too common to hear of “...

The most recent poll followed on from my post about Premiumisation and asked to what degree buyers of bottled and canned beers were sensiti...

A new high water mark has been reached in the anti-drink tide flowing through Scotland, with the news that West Dunbartonshire Council has d...

Tee hee, James Watt of BrewDog – never knowingly uncontroversial – has said that keg is the future of craft beer in Britain. “I don’t thin...

Simon Clark of FOREST sets out very clearly here how immense sums of money are given by the government to ASH and other anti-smoking organi...

This post on Paul Bailey’s blog refers to the phenomenon of “top pressure”, which was widespread in the 1970s, and was described and decrie...

The next Wells & Youngs beer to sample is Young’s London Gold . This is a bottle-conditioned beer of 4.8% ABV*, packaged in a brown bott...

As noted on their own blog , BrewDog have now got three of their beers listed in Morrisons, who of the “big four” supermarkets arguably take...

The other day, I received an e-mail from Fleurets, the licensed trade estate agents, about the Red Lyon in Whitchurch, Shropshire, a former ...

I’ve never thought much of Robert Crampton as a newspaper columnist: he always comes across as one of those who writes whimsical, knowing dr...

Last night, the local CAMRA branch did a crawl of some of the pubs on the east side of Stockport town centre. One of the pubs visited was th...

A South Shields woman has been fined £80 for buying cider and sparkling wine for her 14-year-old daughter to drink. Fair enough, you may th...

The current poll is intended to find out to what extent people are influenced by in-store offers when buying bottled or canned beer. After I...

A US charity called Project Prevention is offering drug addicts £200 if they agree to have a vasectomy so they can’t pass on their degenera...