The Pub Curmudgeon

Back around 2007, when beer blogging was in its infancy, there was a tendency for bloggers to gush with enthusiasm over every new developmen...

From time to time, especially towards the end of an evening in the pub, it’s interesting to speculate about what might be the result of cert...

It’s now the silly season for news, as shown by the widespread coverage of the increasingly surreal Labour leadership contest. Last Frida...

It recently seems to have dawned on some beer bloggers that drinking lots of high-strength craft beers, even if only in halves or thirds, do...

Last week I attended a residents’ meeting in one of my local pubs, the Plough in Heaton Moor , to discuss M&B’s plans for refurbishment ...

Older readers will remember that dreadful vinyl upholstery in cars of the 60s and 70s, which didn't breathe at all and stuck to your clo...

Given that Wetherspoons still only run about two per cent of all the pubs in Britain, some people have been known to express surprise at the...

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...