The Pub Curmudgeon

Today the British Beer and Pub Association released their latest Quarterly Beer Barometer statistics. To be honest, the figures weren’t t...

Oh no, you might think, not another post about craft beer. But what I’ve been thinking is that “craft beer” is basically an attitude of mi...

Over the past few years there have been several occasions when I have suggested that CAMRA at a national level had entered into a potentiall...

When I was compiling the list of my best pub experiences of recent years , I inadvertently missed off what must rank amongst the top handf...

Nothing whatsoever to do with beer, but if you look at maps of the distribution of electoral votes in the US Presidential elections of 1896 ...

Here’s a photo taken today of the latest pub in my local area to be “tinned up”, the Green End in Burnage . As you can see, it’s a massive 1...

Quite a few pubs, especially those with beer gardens, have signs saying “Only food and drink purchased on the premises may be consumed here”...

As promised, here’s a list of my ten favourite pubs within the Stockport MBC area. Not the best beer, or the best in any other sense, but ...

One of the enduring themes of this blog has been how many rural and village pubs have in effect transformed themselves into restaurants an...

If I ran a pub, I’d make sure that the range of cask beers included sufficient variety that as few customers as possible would be disappoint...

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) ...