The Pub Curmudgeon

Fuller’s have recently become the latest recruit to the list of pub operators – most notably including Wetherspoon’s – to impose a blanket b...

Worthington’s bottle-conditioned White Shield is one of the classic British beers and one that I will often go back to despite experiences o...

The great American science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein once observed that “The human race divides politically into those who want peop...

This blogpost from Martyn Cornell: In praise of Ted Tuppen is a valuable antidote to some of the more hysterical anti-pubco tirades we ha...

Until a few years ago, I would always have said that the family brewers were more committed to holding on to their pubs than the pub compani...

In October 2011, the Scottish government introduced a ban on multi-buy discounts for alcoholic drinks purchased in the off-trade. The thinki...

I was recently sent a link to an interesting academic research paper. It’s worth reproducing the summary in full: Could saving the tradit...

In 1977, Michael Jackson produced the World Guide to Beer , which was the first attempt to look at beer on a global basis, identify the vari...

Here’s another in my occasional series of landmark pubs that have called time forever. This is the Wanted Inn at Sparrowpit in the Peak Dist...

So far this year I have made 140 posts on this blog, which equates to about 160 in the full year. However, over the previous four years, the...

Last week I referred to the imminent opening of the Flying Horse, Greene King’s new Hungry Horse pub in Heald Green. As new-build pubs in an...

Pete Brown is always worth reading, but I can’t help getting the impression that in this piece for the Morning Advertiser he meanders roun...

Off Licence News reports that alcohol producers are looking at taking legal action against local councils imposing “voluntary” bans on sel...

Discussion of changing pub names reminded me of a category of pub that seems to have largely vanished from the face of the earth – the “Fun ...

In the past few years, a number of local pubs have been sold off into the free trade by the pub companies and family brewers. In many cases,...