The Pub Curmudgeon

It has often been said that the role of CAMRA is “to campaign for real ale” and that seems a clear enough mission statement. However, some...

Following the most recent round of brewery price increases, I paid £3.20 for a pint of Robinson’s Dizzy Blonde (3.8% ABV) in a pub within th...

Well, not a lot of interest from blog readers in “Dry January”, with no less than 46% having visited pubs ten or more times just to have a...

There’s an interesting new website called A Journey into History which contains reminiscences of the long-closed Railway Inn on Wellington ...

Tandleman recently wrote a post about the future of the pub entitled I’ll Still Have a Pub to Go To . This included the following comments a...

Great Night Out is a comedy-drama series currently showing on ITV1 at 9 pm on Friday nights, which focuses on the lives of four mid-thirt...

I know others have got there first, but I thought these two stories about minimum alcohol pricing that came out in the past few days were wo...

Councillors in County Kerry in the west of Ireland have voted in favour of asking the Irish government to introduce a relaxation of the dr...

Three months ago I wrote a post called Steady Decline Continues , saying that the most recent BBPA Beer Barometer figures weren’t actually a...

Robinson’s Unicorn (formerly Best Bitter), the best-selling cask ale in and around Stockport, is brewed to a relatively generous 4.2% ABV....

The latest round in the inexorable process of watering the workers’ beer came with the announcement from Heineken that the strength of Joh...

Something I’ve noticed a few times recently is pubs aiming to establish their credentials for selling and promoting real ale trying a bit to...

Some telling words here from William Lees-Jones of Middleton family brewer J W Lees: Lees-Jones said that the company had been “in the tr...

Tom Paine recently made a blogpost in which he suggested that resistance to State nannying is only likely to become serious once the pleasu...

I wrote here about how Wetherspoon’s had bought the former Kings Bar and Lounge in Poynton and were busy working on it with a view to ope...