The Pub Curmudgeon

On a vaguely similar theme to the last post, I ran a poll asking whether people bought beer from specialist off-licences, the results of whi...

I grew up in an area of North Cheshire dominated by Greenalls, and so in the 1970s it made a refreshing change to head off a few miles to th...

Reports from Scotland show a 14% fall in volumes of beer sold in the off-trade following the Scottish government’s banning of multibuy disc...

Earlier this year, celebrity chef Marco Pierre White introduced his own branded beer “The Governor”, in conjunction with Middleton brewers J...

Although the protection of workers was often used as a “smokescreen”, the underlying motivation behind smoking bans has always been an attem...

Go in a typical major supermarket, and you will find a range of beers that would not have disgraced a cutting-edge independent off-licence f...

The ongoing decline of the pub trade inevitably leads to staffing reductions, so very often one person is left to look after a serving area ...

On a non beer-related forum, the subject recently came up of pub signs that completely span the road. The best must surely be that of the Fo...

There’s an excellent article by Chris Snowdon of Velvet Glove, Iron Fist fame in yesterday’s Independent entitled We should stop panicking...

On an e-mail group, we were having a discussion about the Brunning & Price chain of pubs. While they have much to be said for them (not...

Last week, we were treated to an informative presentation by David Bremner, the Marketing Director of Stockport family brewer Robinson’s, in...

Apparently, the two-thirds pint “schooner” measure is being shunned by pubs . I had imagined that they would have been of particular interes...

I was saddened to see recently as I was passing that the Railway at Heatley near Lymm was in the process of being reduced to a pile of rubbl...

Stockport town centre, depending on how you define it, currently has about 30 pubs open and trading. There are four or five standing closed ...

Well, I said that High Strength Beer Duty would be just the start, and it now looks as though they’re planning to extend the principle to wi...