The Pub Curmudgeon

One subject that seems to be largely ignored by beer writers and bloggers is the fact that drinking beer inevitably leads to a toilet visit....

Britain’s major brewers, with the backing of CAMRA, are planning to launch a generic advertising campaign entitled Let There Be Beer . Its...

Well, the poll on admitting children to pubs has now closed, with an impressive 89 replies, although not quite as many as the Spoons poll....

This article by Keith Wildeman was published in the fourth edition of Doghouse magazine and is reproduced here with the editor’s permissi...

Boak and Bailey recently did a post entitled Considering a good beer magazine which looked at why, apart from CAMRA’s members-only BEER ,...

The British weather is notoriously fickle, and the past few weeks have been a perfect example of this, with some days getting pretty warm, w...

Tandleman is a regular visitor to London, and often reports his disappointment at the proportion of cask beer he finds there that is a bit ...

For once, my survey on how many branches of Wetherspoon’s people had visited produced something like a normal distribution rather than a U-...

The lifetime of CAMRA has seen the history and development of real ale in general very thoroughly documented. But other aspects of the Bri...

The Grocer reports that the Home Office is “poised to hold talks with police chiefs about a nationwide rollout of ‘voluntary’ retailer ban...

Something that differentiates Marks & Spencer from most of their competitors is that pretty much everything in their stores is produce...

There has been a great deal of publicity about the new Trooper beer developed by Robinson’s brewery in conjunction with legendary heavy m...

Not maybe the best-supported poll I’ve ever run on here, but still an interesting result. Predictably, “weekday lunchtimes” comes last, bu...

Here are three photos of the Davenport Arms at Woodford, locally known as the “Thief’s Neck”, taken earlier today when I called in to delive...

I’ve been very critical in the past of the inconsistency of bottle-conditioned beers from micro-breweries, to the extent that buying them...