The Pub Curmudgeon

In the September issue of the CAMRA newsletter What’s Brewing there’s a letter from Frank Mitchell of Claverdon which includes the followin...

Words fail me... The Liberal Democrats are drawing up plans for a controversial new ‘tipple tax’ on every drink sold in a pub – despite war...

Northenden is a South Manchester suburb which must be typical of many places throughout Britain. Sandwiched between upmarket Didsbury and si...

Back in the 1970s, most British brewers just produced Mild (at around 1033 OG) and Bitter (at around 1038 OG). Choice, and a contrast in fla...

If you were running any kind of business, you would obviously, unless you were a crook, want to do so in a responsible manner. So, if you we...

The Western Mail reports that, in a recent auction of pubs held at the Celtic Manor Hotel near Newport, only one of the nine pubs on offer...

I was reading an article recently which said that, in the era of the Suffragettes, a substantial proportion of women didn’t actually want to...

Sad news that the Tiviot pub in Stockport town centre is to be demolished in eight weeks’ time. Apparently the building has been condemned a...

The Sunday Telegraph reports that two mothers were refused white wine spritzers in a City of London pub because the barperson thought it i...

A year ago today, I started a blog entitled Closed Pubs . This was originally prompted by a non-beer-related forum, where people were invite...

Well, it would seem that blog readers are not very keen about lunchtime drinking when at work. Out of 75 responses, 79% said it was somethin...

October 1st will see two significant legislative changes affecting the British brewing industry and pub trade. In both cases, it’s difficult...

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read that food is going to be the saviour of the wet-led pub . But it isn’t always quite as simple as...

Well, here are the results of the survey question “Name up to three cask beers that you regard as poor or lacklustre examples of the genre.”...

Not sure what to make of this one. Do ten readers of this blog really believe that drinking 15 pints of Stella or Abbot a week makes someone...