The Pub Curmudgeon

The natural follow-on from the, er, resounding success of Stoptober , is a call from Alcohol Concern for people to abstain totally from alco...

I recently opened a bottle of Oktoberfestbier bought from an independent off-licence where I have been a regular customer for many years. It...

Making a change from closed and boarded pubs, here’s a photo taken this morning of the Heaton Norris Conservative Club in Heaton Norris, S...

Just over a year ago, Denmark introduced a “fat tax” on all foods with over 2.3% saturated fat. I doubted at the time whether it would ac...

Back in July 2009, Cooking Lager burst onto the beer blogging scene like a fart in a lift. Beneath the laddish veneer, he in fact succeede...

A point I’ve made in the past is that “a problem with understanding why pubs succeed or fail is that everyone tends to assume that other ...

It seems to be believed in some quarters that introducing minimum alcohol pricing would be a way of redressing the balance between on- and o...

The Burton Mail reports that Punch Taverns has recorded an unwanted achievement : A Burton pub giant has seen an astonishing 99 per ce...

Externally attractive pub in a prominent suburban location on a busy main road. It’s been in the Good Beer Guide in recent years, althoug...

Well, I’ve finally succumbed and created a Twitter account at @oldmudgie – mainly because I wondered what all the fuss was about and was ...

Well, the House of Commons debate on the beer duty escalator has come and gone, and the House voted unanimously (or should that be unoppose...

Well, the poll recorded a generally positive expectation that we would be seeing craft keg in Wetherspoon’s before the end of next year. A...

In a recent post , Tandleman quite correctly says: Choice is often good, but quality is always good. I’d rather have two beers in top ...

Boak and Bailey recently posted about St Austell Brewery in Cornwall putting some of their stronger and more unusual ales in kegs, and spec...

I recently posted how there were concerns that the established restaurants of the “Curry Mile” in Rusholme were being squeezed out by a ri...