The Pub Curmudgeon

No doubt you will have come across one or more brewery websites that require you to enter your date of birth before accessing the site. It’s...

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the financial problems of pub companies such as Enterprise Inns and Punch, but is it possibl...

The latest issue of the BBPA Beer Barometer , covering the quarter to the end of June, reveals nothing new. Overall beer sales are down by 4...

I wrote here about how the recent heatwave has been showing some pubs’ cellar management practices to be distinctly wanting. And Adrian T...

Recently on my travels I came across this particularly magnificent example of inter-wars Brewer’s Tudor, the Coach & Horses at Moreto...

In the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of “fruit ciders”, i.e. those made including some fruit other ...

Last Friday saw the welcome abandonment of two unpopular and illiberal government proposals in one day – minimum alcohol pricing and plain t...

Yesterday at around 1.45 pm I walk into an attractive, well-situated pub, although admittedly one that doesn’t tend to be a contender for th...

Last week, the story was widely reported how a Sainsbury’s checkout operator had refused to serve a customer talking on her mobile phone ....

“Customer experience” expert Ian Golding has taken an in-depth look at What makes a good British pub? In particular he reports on the con...

There was recently a somewhat ill-tempered spat on the local CAMRA e-mail group about a particular bar that was charging more for a half ...

There has been a great deal of discussion in the media recently about the government’s plans for tighter regulation of pub companies. Now le...

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....