The Pub Curmudgeon

Here’s an interesting piece of nostalgia from the Shropshire Star about pubs that have been lost in the county in recent years. The commen...

Or so someone said to me the other day. While he was referring to the modern Newspeak definition of “binge drinking”, that is, having more t...

For once, here’s a story of pub advance rather than pub retreat. The two pictures to the right show the Flying Horse , an impressively large...

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This post is to a large extent a rehash of others I have made in the past. Some people aren’t going to like it, but it needs to be said. I ...

This wasn’t trying to prove any point, just aiming to find out to what extent people on a weekend night out confine their custom to a single...

I think it was Boak and Bailey who pointed out this article entitled Is Craft Killing Big Beer – Not Through Sales, But Brand Status Erosio...

Some surprisingly positive figures in the latest BBPA British Beer Barometer . The statistics for the third quarter of 2013 show a 5.2% rise...

Pendle Witches Brew, from Moorhouse’s in Burnley, was one of the flagship beers of the early microbrewery revolution. Weighing in at a powe...

If I had a pint for every time I’ve heard someone say “you’d have to be an idiot to fail with that pub, it’s the only one for the best part ...

Brandon Lewis, the “Minister for High Streets”, recently attracted a lot of criticism when he said that popular fast food outlets such as Mc...

More excellent stuff from Chris Snowdon in this must-read extended essay on how the tyranny of “Public Health” is seeking to extend ever cl...

The 2011 Localism Act allowed local authorities to designate non-residential buildings as “assets of community value”: Nominations for com...

The Guardian recently published an interesting article on Ten things that bad boozers get wrong . Some of them I agree with, some I’m not t...

My recent post about the under-representation of family brewers in the Good Beer Guide made the point that some of them had been effectivel...