The Pub Curmudgeon

Back in April, I wrote about the painfully slow progress of the e-petition opposing minimum alcohol pricing . At the beginning of this we...

In a sense, the government have been quite clever in settling on 45p/unit as their proposed minimum alcohol price. 40p would have brought ...

Which well-known British beer is this? “But the joy of ***** is in the delicate aroma. It’s subtly autumnal with a woody undercurrent, so ...

Well, it’s all kicked off today with the government announcing a consultation on a 45p per unit minimum alcohol price . There’s little to sa...

There’s yet more common sense in the letters column of December’s What’s Brewing in the form of no less than three letters pointing out t...

Over the past few years I have often been critical of the great and good of CAMRA for naively refusing to acknowledge the glaring parallels ...

The Cherry Tree is a former Greenall’s pub on the Grange estate in Runcorn, Cheshire. Despite having grown up within a mile of it, and re...

Shadow pubs minister Toby Perkins (good Labour name, that) has accused a local council of deliberately trying to trick licensees through t...

More complaints from the usual suspects about how supermarkets are killing pubs . But, as I’ve written before , surely if the pubs were su...

So all the debate and speculation about minimum pricing continues to go round and round in circles. The latest report is that: David Came...

I have to say that wine in general rather passes me by, but even so I found last week’s BBC4 documentary Chateau Chunder on the rise of ...

There has recently been some discussion on the blogs of Paul Bailey and Wee Beefy about Rodney Wolfe Coe’s list of the “Classic Basic Unsp...

As posted on Twatter by @fleetstreetfox : Let me tell you about the worst actors I ever met. It was in a south London pub not far from the ...

Some years ago I came up with a list of bullet points that could be said to sum up the key themes of my Opening Times column . Who let...

A decade or more ago, beers from the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh were a common sight in the off-trade. However, more recently they see...