The Pub Curmudgeon

A commenter suggested that I should do a post of “worst pub awards” where you come across an attractive traditional building, but on ventur...

Recent reports suggest that the Scottish government are considering implementing a 45p per unit “floor price” for alcohol by using the alco...

We’re all used to the image of Australians as rugged, rough-hewn individualists, always eager to cock a snook at authority. However, Austral...

Some slightly worrying comments here from Chris Tulloch, managing director of pub operator Weston Castle who specialise in breathing a new ...

Alcohol Concern currently have a poll on their website asking the opinions of under-18s on alcohol advertising. Given their previous impecc...

The most recent poll asked people how many different Wetherspoon pubs they had visited. I was really just asking this out of curiosity after...

There’s more of my deathless prose in the May edition of Opening Times – see Page 7 for my write-up of the Shaw Heath and Higher Hillgate S...

The Daily Mail reports with characteristic relish that a group of primary school teachers “disgraced themselves” by enjoying a night out a...

Here’s a picture of the now-closed Ash Hotel in Heaton Norris, Stockport, scene of the last night smoke-in described here . It’s a rather ma...

The debate over whether CAMRA should support non-real craft beers continues to rumble on, as Tandleman puts it . In the latest issue of CAMR...

“Anti-drink lobby? What anti-drink lobby?” someone wondered. “As far as I can see, the quality and variety of drink available is better than...

Recently, another blogger, who shall remain nameless, berated me (indirectly) for having a “fear of change” and displaying a negative attitu...

Another extract from Vintage Pubs and Real Ale in Greater Manchester , this time describing the long-closed (and keg only) Colliers Arms at ...

As you probably noticed, Blogger was offline for the best part of a day on Thursday evening and Friday last week, and a lot of posts and com...

In the comments recently, Nisakiman said : I really count myself lucky that I was going to, and enjoying, country pubs when they really did...