The Pub Curmudgeon

Yesterday, Boak and Bailey wrote an interesting blogpost entitled Things we Love About CAMRA . Their conclusion was that, “despite its oddit...

Last week, Tesco posted one of the largest corporate losses ever seen in the UK, at £6.4 billion. It has to be said that most of this is du...

Whenever you hear that a pub is going be closed for refurbishment, there’s always a slight feeling of unease. OK, if it’s just a case of rep...

Back in the 1990s, following the success of Guinness Draught in a can, Guinness launched “Guinness Bitter”, using the same widget technology...

Well done to George Osborne for making a small cut to beer duty for the third year running, something without precedent in living memory. Bu...

When I first started going in pubs, I rapidly picked up the habit – possibly from my dad – of tying empty crisp packets into a little knot...

Go in any pub or restaurant nowadays that has the slightest aspiration to be fashionable, and the odds are that you will have your meal serv...

The Harewood Arms in the Tameside village of Broadbottom was chosen as CAMRA’s Greater Manchester Pub of the Year for 2014, and went on to ...

Greene King have recently relaunched their flagship IPA brand to give it a more contemporary and, dare I say, “craft” look. This beer is de...

It was a sign of the times that the long-running US sitcom Friends saw the main characters socialising in a coffee shop rather than a bar. ...

In this blogpost , Christopher Snowdon publishes the text of a speech he gave to the Future Pubs conference. In it, he mounts a trenchant at...

Last year, I expressed concern that Holt’s were planning to convert the Cheadle Hulme pub in the suburb of the same name to a “family dinin...

You often hear antismokers claiming that the smoking ban enjoys overwhelming public support, it has now become generally accepted, it is wat...

Congratulations to the Salutation Inn at Ham in Gloucestershire for winning CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year Award for 2015. As the article...

This time of year sees CAMRA branches across the country selecting the pubs they will include in the following year’s Good Beer Guide . They...