The Pub Curmudgeon

The results of my poll on drinking “craft keg” beers are shown on the right. The general response was very positive, with almost a quarter s...

There was an interesting discussion on Twitter recently about to what extent it is acceptable to criticise beers that you, as a blogger, hav...

Phil Mellows has made a very sensible and balanced post (as usual) here about the conversion of pubs to supermarkets. It’s often alleged th...

I’ve written in the past about the highly inconsistent and generally disappointing character of British bottle-conditioned beers, especiall...

Here’s a pub character who literally is legless – but not in the way you would expect. He can still manage to walk along the top of the bar,...

Last weekend, I quoted from a letter by Tim Webb in the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing in which he called for the organisation to take a m...

Congratulations to the Swan With Two Necks at Pendleton in Lancashire for having been chosen as CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year for 2014. ...

I recently reported the unexpected closure of the Baker’s Vaults in Stockport. While Robinson’s brewery have stated their intention to find...

In the February issue of the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing , there’s a very interesting letter from Tim Webb that will certainly put the ca...

The Daily Mash may have made a joke of it , but the view is often heard that London is becoming increasingly detached in economic and socia...

It wasn’t exactly a good advertisement for joined-up government when the Home Office announced that they wouldn’t be giving pubs a blanket e...

The most recent poll was inspired by Boak and Bailey’s blogpost about the uncertainty over whether Camden Hells was brewed in London or in ...

Here’s another trenchant article by David Atherton about the decline of the pub, and its causes: Pub closures mean we’re losing the last of ...

Rather gratifying results from this poll following on from my post here . 90% of respondents don’t see sitting or standing at the bar as the...

Martyn Cornell has done an excellent blogpost entitled Moral panics, Tim Martin and motorways about the hysterical overreaction to the news...