The Pub Curmudgeon

I recently spotted an article listing the 16 Most Annoying Customer Types in pubs. I’ve never personally worked behind a bar, but I’ve talk...

The latest British Beer Barometer statistics from the BBPA show that, in 2014, overall UK beer sales rose by 1.3% over the previous year, t...

Following an accounting scandal and a dramatic downturn in trading figures, Tesco have announced the closure of 43 stores across the country...

The Green Party have recently enjoyed a marked rise in the opinion polls, and this week released a policy statement, which is well summarise...

Let’s imagine a new wave of pubs started opening in the UK. They were small, plain and unassuming, with no food, children, piped music or pa...

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...