The Pub Curmudgeon

This is a sad story – but in a way grimly ironic – about a Sheffield student whose eyesight was damaged by drinking counterfeit vodka, wher...

No doubt this Guardian article will raise a few hackles: The pint glass is an outdated relic and beer drinkers have been subjected to it ...

A House of Commons committee recently recommended that people should have at least two alcohol-free days a week (I wonder how many MPs abide...

It’s often claimed that there’s a singular lack of association between venues majoring on real ale and alcohol-related disorder, and indeed ...

Some trenchant words here from Simon Cooke about CAMRA’s blinkered and self-deluding response to the neo-Prohibitionist agenda: CAMRA alon...

It has often been commented how the growth of High Street coffee shops has usurped the traditional role of pubs as informal meeting places. ...

H/t to Tyson for pointing out the news that AB InBev are planning to cut the strength of Stella, Becks and Budweiser from 5% to 4.8% ABV. ...

“Brewer Molson Coors and drinks giant Diageo have predicted a growth in illicit cross-border trading if minimum pricing goes ahead in Scotl...

There’s not a lot more you can say about this one : A former pub landlord who regularly drank 40 pints a day has dismissed health warnings ...

Imagine you are a licensee. It’s a bitterly cold day. Someone comes in your pub on their own and sits down at a table reading a free newspap...

Prompted by this post about Fuller’s on Eating isn’t Cheating , I asked which of the family brewers in the North-West, Yorkshire and the Mi...

There were predictable howls of outrage from Alcohol Concern and their transport equivalents BRAKE at the news that a filling station in Ken...

While craft keg may be struggling to get out of the starting blocks, a phenomenon that has made a significant impact on the British pub scen...

There’s probably nothing in the beer blogosphere about which so much verbiage has been expended in relation to its importance in the beer ma...

Stockport family brewer Robinson’s have historically been reluctant to abandon their tied pubs until it has become clear they have become co...