The Pub Curmudgeon

At the turn of the year, many people offer their predictions for the year to come. At the beginning of this year, I did so too , although th...

In the sidebar, I say of the possible reduction of the UK drink-driving limit that “In my, view this is at least as much a threat to pubs as...

It was sad, but not entirely surprising, news that Robinson’s Brewery are planning to phase out their 1892 cask mild from the end of April n...

A recent study by academics from Keele University and University College London has punctured some myths about drinking amongst the middle-...

I was gratified to see that I had been named joint winner of the Blogger of the Year by the Boozy Procrastinator blog, saying “ Best Beer B...

The "Star Letter" in January's edition of the CAMRA newspaper What's Brewing comes from one Peter Edwardson of Stockport,...

Christopher Snowdon of the Institute of Economic Affairs has produced a new paper called Closing Time? which looks at the reasons for the s...

Once it has emerged from the still, Scotch whisky is put into oak casks to mature for a minimum of three years, often much more. When it is ...

Over the years, I’ve sometimes listed a change in ethnic make-up as a cause of pub decline in inner-urban working-class areas. Now Tory pee...

Today sees the implementation of the lower drive-drive limit in Scotland . I’ve discussed the rights and wrongs of this at length in the pas...

Here’s a perceptive and entertaining article by Peter Robins in which he looks at how the metropolitan middle classes have finally taken be...

Last Thursday, the local CAMRA branch presented its Pub of the Month award to the Fletcher Moss in Didsbury. It’s an excellent pub well des...

Over the years, the subject of Wetherspoons has been extensively discussed on here, and in general the conclusion has been that, while they ...

On the right is a photo of the new Morrisons M-Local store that opened this week on the site of the former Four Heatons pub (originally the ...

In 1989, after strenuous lobbying by CAMRA, the government of the day brought in the Beer Orders, which were widely expected to usher in a n...