The Pub Curmudgeon

Market research organisation Mintel has recently published an interesting report on pubgoing in Britain. Amongst the results are that one i...

Last week I’ve been away for a few days in West Wales. Contrary to popular myth, a Mudgie holiday doesn’t mean an epic pub-crawl that isn’t ...

Boak & Bailey have recently been reporting on their holiday in the wonderful Yorkshire Dales. In Settle, they were taken by the Talbot ...

On his Oh Good Ale blog , Phil has been recounting his experiences doing the local CAMRA Mild Magic trail, which makes interesting reading. ...

It’s now almost forty years since CAMRA held its first national beer festival at Covent Garden in London. Since then, the number of beer fes...

Last autumn, as reported here by Boak & Bailey, Wetherspoon’s with a great fanfare introduced keg Devil’s Backbone IPA and BrewDog This...

Some years ago I used to have discussions on motoring-related Usenet groups with a retired Cheshire traffic police officer called Kevin Lunn...

I’ve made the point in the past here and here that the pubcos are not going to adopt a supine response to any government-imposed change in...

At the end of last year, I reported that Robinsons had announced they were going to axe their 1892 Mild . The general verdict was that, whil...

I recently happened to be in Stockport town centre on a weekday lunchtime for an optician’s appointment, and afterwards thought I would call...

I recently wrote about the travails of Tesco , which had expanded beyond the point at which the business was sustainable, and raised the que...

Last month’s CAMRA AGM passed a motion instructing branches to desist from “anti campaigns” denigrating other drinks. Many would take the vi...

Well, here are the results of the Mudgie opinion poll for the 2015 General Election. I made a point of not sharing or promoting this anywhe...

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...