The Pub Curmudgeon

Yesterday, I posted the surprisingly prescient results of my unofficial blogpoll on the EU Referendum. While I was a strong supporter of Le...

For the past month, I’ve been running a poll in the sidebar that mirrors the question we are being asked to vote on today at the ballot bo...

In 1996, as part of a series of articles on Cheshire pubs, I reported for Opening Times on the Grosvenor Arms at Aldford a few miles south...

It’s often said that “if you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”. And much the same is true of the hardline anti-pubco campaigne...

The week before last, I was alerted by Andy Gosling on Twitter to a stunning limited offer at Lidl – a pack of six strong Belgian ales in...

Many of our once distinguished newspapers now seem to be sadly reduced to purveyors of clickbait. However, one such piece that was worth rea...

Ghost Drinker has recently been complaining that the expansion of availability of interesting craft beers in Leeds pubs and bars has not bee...

Stonch has recently revamped the format of his blog to what to my eyes is a triumph of form over substance, where things keep abruptly jump...

H/t to Boak and Bailey for drawing my attention to this highly evocative set of pictures of workers in the Suffolk town of Leiston enjoyin...

One of my active Twitter followers is a chap called Fennaldo , who gives his location as North County Dublin in Ireland, although he also sa...

I'll have no weirdy beardies in here, thank you! I was recently rather tickled by Simon Everitt’s account of the less than fulsome w...

One of the perennial themes of this blog has been that far too much cask beer is presented to the customer in a condition that falls well sh...

I can’t say the news on the front page of today’s Times is exactly surprising, but it’s good to see it in such a prominent spot in a nation...

A few years ago, I posted about the growing problem of walking into a pub, finding nobody behind the bar, and having no means of summoning ...

A while back, I did a poll about what times people went to the pub . The results were really just a confirmation of the obvious so, as sugge...