The Pub Curmudgeon

The last thirty or so years have seen a dramatic upheaval in the world of beer, with huge numbers of new breweries springing up and often ...

There are some stories that seem to crop up in the media with depressing regularity. One is supermarket cashiers refusing to sell alcoholi...

There’s no shortage of reality TV shows nowadays such as The Hotel Inspector taking failing businesses and bringing in some so-called “expe...

On my most recent visit to Tesco, I was interested to see 4x500ml cans of Old Golden Hen on sale at £5 (normal price £5.99). Canned versions...

To listen to some people, you would get the impression that the main reasons for pub closures were a combination of pubs being poorly run,...

Adnams’ Ghost Ship and Hawkshead Lakeland Gold are two prime examples of the modern trend of “hop-forward” beers, that can be found in ord...

A recent arrival on the North-West beer blogging scene is Seeing the Lizards . One point that the author Matthew Lawrenson has addressed is ...

There’s nothing to beat a cool, clear, fresh pint of cask beer, bursting with flavour and condition. Unfortunately a substantial minority ...

The Morning Advertiser reports (slightly late) on CAMRA’s U-turn over minimum alcohol pricing , mentioning the proposer of the motion (othe...

I have written before about how the creation of the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors is one of the best things that CAMRA h...

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 ...