The Pub Curmudgeon

One of the most prolific commenters on this blog has been Martin Taylor of Cambridge, who has seemed to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of B...

I don’t usually go in for pub reviews on here, but I am going to make an exception to underline a point about the Good Beer Guide . It’s oft...

Traditionalists such as myself are often heard to complain about the changing meaning of English words, which usually seems to result in a...

Last year, Mike Benner left his post as Chief Executive of CAMRA to move across to SIBA. Mike was (and is) a very able and articulate chap a...

The debate about clarity and murkiness in beer has recently burst into flames again in the response to a post by Quinno on Stonch’s blog ent...

Four years ago, I wrote about how the ever-increasing beer choice in supermarkets was cutting into the market of independent off-licences . ...

Earlier this year, I was in one of Sam Smith’s Cheshire pubs, which can fairly be said to attract a wide range of customers from regular boo...

Pete Brown (again) has recently produced the latest edition of the annual Cask Report , which in fact will be the last one he writes. Obviou...

When he’s not engaging in juvenile rants against the Ebil Toriez, or claiming that a big brewery merger spells apocalyptic disaster, left...

I’m not a huge fan of the Good Pub Guide , but its most recent launch highlighted the issue of children in pubs , something that has long be...

For many years, I’ve regularly distributed the local CAMRA magazine to a varying selection of pubs. One thing that always struck me was that...

In the early days of CAMRA, Donnington Brewery in the Cotswolds was widely seen as the ideal of the small, rustic, country brewery. The bre...

In his budget in July, George Osborne announced that, from April next year, the National Minimum Wage would rise to £7.20 an hour for over-2...

Regular readers will be familiar with my other blog of Closed Pubs , where I take advantage of the views offered by Google StreetView to hig...

Boak & Bailey have posted a fascinating gallery of pictures of 1960s Watneys pubs taken from the back of matchboxes. Only one out of th...