The Pub Curmudgeon

Samuel Smith’s have recently completed an expensive and thoroughgoing refurbishment of the Swan in Holmes Chapel . This is a pub in a good, ...

A frequent demand from anti-alcohol campaigners is that supermarkets should have dedicated alcohol checkouts, rather than allowing drink to ...

The British Beer & Pub Association, together with CAMRA, have been campaigning for the Chancellor to make a further cut in beer duty in ...

Two Robinson's pubs next door to each other A Marston’s tenant in Droitwich has complained that her business has been adversely aff...

Simon Everitt has recently ventured to the outer reaches of Doncaster in his quest to visit every pub in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide . It must ...

There’s been a hashtag going round about Beer people are good people . But that seems to reflect a cosy camaraderie within the craft beer wo...

In yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph there was an interesting piece by Michael Deacon entitled My ten essential requirements for the perfect pub...

Not surprisingly, following the reduction in the drink-drive limit in Scotland in December 2014, there have been renewed calls to follow sui...

Probably the most controversial issue in CAMRA for a long time is the question of whether some “KeyKeg” beers can be classified as “real ale...

A slightly undercooked chicken goujon Martin Taylor recently reminded me of my very unsatisfactory bacon sandwich at the otherwise rath...

A phrase we’re hearing increasingly often nowadays, used in a dismissive sense, is old man pub . The connotations are pretty clear, but is...

Last year, the Labour-run Welsh Government put forward plans to ban vaping in all indoor public places in the same way as smoking has been b...

My latest poll was about whether pubs should be excluded from the Good Beer Guide if they at times reserved all seating for diners. Perha...

The Fleece, Bretforton - a historic pub owned by the National Trust Cooking Lager has sometimes been known to tease me by arguing that ...

In recent weeks we have had discussions on the amount of diversity (or lack of) in the beer world in the spheres of race and class . And it...