The Pub Curmudgeon

The past decade has seen a dramatic rise in the popularity of vaping, i.e. using a non tobacco-based nicotine delivery system, often somewha...

For several years, many people have been pointing out that the ever-growing number of breweries in Britain seems to be on a collision course...

The two scans below are of an article entitled 31 Beers, 31 Days, 31 Counties by Peter Maskell, which appears in the annual magazine of the...

CAMRA’s current Revitalisation Project makes a lot of sense, but unfortunately much of the publicity surrounding it has given a completely ...

A recent beer list at the Magnet freehouse, Stockport In recent years I’ve heard a few reports of people going into pubs, scanning the r...

I’ve written before about how a simple statistical analysis demonstrates that pubs really aren’t turning over their cask beers quickly enou...

These are the results of my poll on CAMRA and keg beers. As you can see, the voting is far from conclusive, with a pretty much even split b...

The Holly Bush in Bollington is (or was) a modest 1930s Brewer’s Tudor pub with a wonderful, unspoilt interior including small separate room...

This poll on what times people go to the pub was inspired by various comments in the blogosphere about pubs adopting ever more limited ope...

A few years ago, a guy who was a long-standing inactive member of CAMRA decided to put his toe in the water and come along on one of our ...

The announcement of CAMRA’s Revitalisation Project resulted in all kinds of misleading newspaper headlines, of which this was one of the wor...

Tucked away at the end of the order paper at last weekend’s CAMRA AGM in Liverpool was a motion calling for CAMRA not to “promote, advertise...

Last week, CAMRA formally launched its Revitalisation Project . The consultation document that is being sent out to all members can be dow...

Pubs are typically viewed as places of raucous ribaldry, or at least of cheerful conviviality. However, there is another side to them, as wo...

The death of cash has often been foretold, but it still seems a very long way off happening. Much the same is true of print publications. ...