The Pub Curmudgeon

OK, here are the results of my recent survey, which impressively attracted the maximum permitted 100 responses within 24 hours. Thanks to ev...

RedNev pointed out this article about Health Minister Anne Milton giving evidence about alcohol policy to the House of Commons Science and ...

I’ve created a new survey about blog readers’ pubgoing habits and preferences which can be taken here . Edit: the survey is now closed ha...

I was amazed to read that JD Wetherspoon has been named as Britain’s best pub operator for customer satisfaction . Now, my usual experience ...

The Board of Alcohol Concern has announced a restructuring of its senior management following the loss of core funding , with the role of th...

There’s been a lot of talk recently of the decline of traditional high streets, with retail guru Mary Portas being appointed to head a gover...

The latest edition of the UK Quarterly Beer Barometer produced by the BBPA confirms the trend of the past two quarters, with a continued st...

Last night, we were out on a CAMRA pub crawl of the southern fringe of Stockport town centre. We went in one particular pub, a bog-standard,...

According to the Portman Group , “alcohol consumption continues to decline, in a trend that has been continuing since the early to mid-2000s...

This article so conveniently brings together two of the favourite themes of the Daily Mail – hysterical scaremongering about alcohol and m...

The latest addition to the sidebar is a button asking you to sign the petition created by CAMRGB to scrap the 7.5% beer supertax introduce...

Here are a couple of photos of prominent local pubs that have recently been turned into supermarkets – the Chapel House in Heaton Chapel (t...

In a shock revelation, a poll of 101 readers of the Pub Curmudgeon blog showed that, in the past year, 81% had consumed at least 6 pints of ...

Don’t let anyone tell you that Sam Smith’s aren’t on the ball – the other day I was in one of their pubs and spotted a little sticker on the...

I spotted on my most recent visit to Tesco that the new High Strength Beer Duty had now been applied to the beers over 7.5% ABV, so 4x500ml ...