The Pub Curmudgeon

Boak & Bailey recently published a list of their ten favourite UK pubs (in fact nine), which led me to mull over a similar personal l...

In the comments on my last post about entrance restrictions in pubs, Martin of Cambridge says : “I'm much more fussed about pubs in th...

The Blue Bell pub in York has been excluded from the 2014 Good Beer Guide by the York branch of CAMRA because at times it operates a rest...

There have been suggestions that this week’s cut in beer duty may be judged illegal under European law , as it supposedly discriminates agai...

Well, George Osborne today became the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to actually cut beer duty since Derick Heathcoat-Amory (pictured) ...

It’s the centrepiece of the supermarket beer display – an array of over 100 different bottles, reflecting distinctive local identities fro...

One of the most noticeable developments on the pub scene over the last couple of decades has been the growth of the “specialist beer pub”...

Four years ago, I reported how Marston’s had increased the strength of bottled Pedigree (but not draught or canned) from 4.5% ABV to 5.0%...

Tim Martin’s latest bright idea is wanting to open branches of Wetherspoon’s at motorway service areas . Now, there’s an obvious problem wit...

In pretty much every decade of my drinking career, people have claimed that the previous decade has seen a “pub food revolution” resulting...

The February issue of the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing included an opinion piece by barley merchant Robin Appel in which he argued that “...

The Daily Mail reports today that Cameron’s minimum pricing plans are now effectively dead in the water following a Cabinet revolt. One m...

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...