The Pub Curmudgeon

A post by Tandleman about stale keg beer reminded me of an odd bit of nostalgia. The Traveller’s Rest at Flash on the A53 heading from B...

Apparently the government are planning to use supermarket loyalty card data to spy on the purchasing habits of members of the public and se...

Chris Snowdon draws our attention to an organisation called Active Europe whose vision is “a democratic, diverse and peaceful world free f...

It’s been recently reported that a well-regarded pub company pub in the Peak District fringes a few miles outside Stockport has closed, and ...

The petition against the beer duty escalator is currently enjoying major promotion, and so far has gained over 57,000 signatures. But, re...

It was reported over the weekend that the Alcohol Health Alliance, a body comprising more than thirty medical groups and charities, had call...

It has long been a source of frustration for the “health” lobby that they are unable to assert that any quantity of alcohol above zero is ...

The hot weather a couple of weeks ago (now sadly only a fading memory) prompted me to create a poll about whether people had ever put ice ...

Martyn Cornell is a well-respected beer writer, who has made plenty of knowledgeable, stimulating posts on his Zythophile blog, and also wr...

Let’s imagine that Neville Chamberlain’s National Government had set out their four key policy priorities in the Spring of 1939. And they of...

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...