The Pub Curmudgeon

It was reported this week that, after having successfully trialled the concept, a company was planning to roll out its Pound Pub concept ac...

I’ve often made the point on here that no amount of planning restrictions will save a single pub if the underlying demand isn’t there. This ...

The reason cask beer dramatically turned the tables against keg in the 1970s was not some issue of principle – it was that, quite simply, wh...

Well, the relatively small number of people who responded to my poll weren’t very optimistic about the prospects for any further duty conces...

The past couple of months have seen a flurry of articles in the media that suggest the “craft beer” phenomenon has finally escaped from the ...

Last year I posted some pictures of the Davenport Arms (aka the Thief’s Neck) at Woodford and made the comment that, while in most respects...

The J. D. Wetherspoon vouchers distributed by CAMRA to its members have proved to be a considerable source of controversy. To some they are ...

Premium Bottled Ales are in a sense the older, staider relation of craft keg beers. They’ve been around for a lot longer, and have less of a...

The original reason for creating this blog was the smoking ban in July 2007 which, as I predicted, has largely ripped the guts out of the Br...

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...