The Pub Curmudgeon

So “Wee Eck” is to press ahead with his plan to reduce the drink-driving limit in Scotland from 80mg to 50mg. This seems to me essentially ...

A while back I reviewed Greene King’s Old Golden Hen and concluded it was a pleasant, refreshing beer, with some element of distinctivene...

I recently posted about the decline of the pub scene around Stockport Market Place , and Moorendman extrapolated from this to a more gene...

It’s reported that, over the past five years, one in four pubs in Cambridge have closed , leaving less than a hundred still open in the ci...

The most recent Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA “Stagger” was around Stockport Market Place, which I had previously written up here (s...

Local Stockport brewery Robinson’s have recently, as part of their rebranding exercise, adopted the identity of Cheshire Family Brewers . So...

Chris Snowdon, author of the Velvet Glove, Iron Fist blog, has just produced a must-read paper for the Adam Smith Institute entitled The Wa...

The Daily Telegraph reports on research by Mintel that says “a third of Britons believe that it is important to have a pub close to their ...

From the latest edition of the local CAMRA magazine Opening Times (Page 13): Beartown Brewery of Congleton, Cheshire has launched a bot...

Over the years, a lot of effort has been put in, so far without success, by those campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis . In princi...

I wrote recently about how Tim Martin of Wetherspoon’s seems to alternate in a schizophrenic manner between talking sense and nonsense. But...

Many years ago we had Ted Bruning, then the editor of the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing , as the speaker at our local branch anniversary ...

Last weekend saw a predictable outpouring of ballyhoo about the opening of the new BrewDog bar on Peter Street in Manchester City Centre. No...

Yesterday evening, there was a documentary on Channel 4 about the World’s Largest Snake, a 48-foot monster that lived 60 million years ago...

Tim Martin of Wetherspoon’s is one of those irritating people who seem to alternate between talking good sense and utter drivel. For example...