The Pub Curmudgeon

A proposal that has been made in various quarters to address growing public disengagement from politics is the introduction of “open prima...

The hot weather inevitably leads to parts of the human body being revealed that really should be kept under wraps. One common manifestation ...

In his mammoth history of the Second World War, Antony Beevor writes of how the mood of the Wehrmacht lifted in the Spring of 1942 followin...

Earlier this week, I reported that, on a CAMRA pub crawl of Didsbury, at the age of 55 I was the youngest of a party of nine. One commenter ...

Well, a combination of economic recovery, good weather and two years of duty cuts has delivered unprecedentedly positive figures for beer sa...

A couple of months ago, I reported on plans by the Portman Group to introduce portion control for strong beers and ciders. But it seems as ...

Last Friday, the local branch of CAMRA took its monthly “Stagger” around the prosperous urban village of Didsbury. This will be written up (...

Wetherspoon’s have often been discussed on here, and my view is that while I respect their business success and sometimes find them useful, ...

Go back ten years, and ask an anti-drink campaigner what he’d like to see in the coming decade. A 20% fall in average alcohol consumption wo...

Well, not exactly surprising, but 90% of poll respondents reckoned they would normally call then cans, not tins. I stand by my initial vie...

Many years ago, I attended a work-related course in Cambridge. One night, we attendees went out to see a film and afterwards adjourned to a ...

There’s nothing that the old-school CAMRA true believer despises more than canned beer. It is the spawn of the devil, it never has any redee...

Twenty-five years ago, the CAMRA Members’ Investment Club was created, with the declared objective of investing in companies producing and ...

G. K. Chesterton’s poem The Rolling English Road is not as well known today as it used to be, possibly because its sentiment is now conside...

Ironically, it’s Pete Brown again, but this anecdote from the Morning Advertiser about the aftermath of the Cask Marque AGM just demands a...