The Pub Curmudgeon

The January issue of the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing contains another puff piece about the supposed imminent “micropub revolution”, quot...

There was recently a story in the news about the diet secrets of the oldest woman in Europe , who apparently ate eggs, pasta, minced meat an...

I was recently asked by a correspondent about electric real ale dispense and thought it would be worth turning my response into a blogpost. ...

I wrote recently about how Robinson’s had been carrying out a cull of their pub estate , and suggested that there were one or two more that ...

A common error made by campaigners and politicians is to imagine that policy changes can be made in isolation without any wider implications...

This week, the alcohol consumption figures from the Office for National Statistics’ annual Lifestyle Survey were published. They showed a ...

The festive season is when large numbers of people who scarcely go into a pub between January and November suddenly find themselves crossing...

Not entirely surprisingly, my recent poll showed a decisive majority in favour of 500ml over 330ml bottles for normal-strength beers. Sure...

I’ve posted in the past about how many pubs seem to stock more cask beers than they can realistically turn over , resulting in a distinct ri...

My local Morrisons and Tesco have recently created separate “craft beer” sections, stocked with a mixture of beers they already had, such...

I’ve mentioned in the past how bottle-conditioned beers from micro-breweries are so inconsistent that drinking them is like a lottery – and ...

There have been various reports this festive season of police forces offering rewards to people who successfully inform on drink-drive offe...

Well, the poll on the use of e-cigs in pubs has closed and there’s a pretty overwhelming majority in favour of their unrestricted use. I’d g...

The great craft beer debate rumbles inexorably on but never seems to get any closer to reaching any kind of definitive conclusion. One of th...

Ever-increasing energy bills have been one of the dominant stories in the news for weeks if not months. And anyone with a passing interest i...