The Pub Curmudgeon

The Morning Advertiser reports that CAMRA has called upon the government to revise the official advice on daily alcohol units . In its sub...

The Pollyannas of the beer blogosphere are always telling us that, despite the gloomy headline numbers, there are still great prospects in t...

My local branch of Tesco has recently started selling two highly-regarded US beers – Goose Island IPA and Brooklyn Lager. Now, I can’t reall...

On a couple of blogs, I’ve made the comment that, thirty years ago, food in pubs was often more varied and innovative than it is now. This h...

Not so long ago, a comment was made on the CAMRA web forum that the Good Beer Guide will “increasingly give you the local equivalent of the...

Some more interesting snippets from the BBPA Statistical Handbook... 2010 average price of a pint of beer in the UK off-trade: Supermark...

It was reported recently that the Good Food Guide had banished the term “gastropub” . However, this is not because there has been a swing b...

I have made a few posts recently about the reduced rate of duty for beers of 2.8% ABV or below which is being introduced from October 1st. S...

I was recently kindly sent a complimentary copy of the British Beer & Pub Association’s annual Statistical Handbook. This may come acros...

The Morning Advertiser reports that, in response to the duty cut on beers of 2.8% and below from 1 October, local brewer J. W. Lees are lau...

According to the latest BBPA Statistical Handbook, the point is rapidly approaching at which British off-trade beer sales exceed those in th...

A trend that I’ve remarked on before is that more and more pubs, if they don’t have a strong food trade, are no longer opening at lunchtimes...

Writing about High Strength Beer Duty, I mentioned that Gold Label barley wine would probably be the biggest selling British-brewed ale to b...

In the 2012 Good Beer Guide , editor Roger Protz offers the following five-point plan to “Save the British Pub”. But, sadly, on most of them...

Old Golden Hen is a brand extension of Old Speckled Hen, and is Greene King’s attempt to gain a share of the growing market for refreshing g...