The Pub Curmudgeon

Last week’s poll was on whether people would continue to visit their favourite local pub if it stopped selling real ale. There wasn’t any ...

The Black Lion, Consall Forge, Staffordshire I recently visited, for the first time, the Black Lion at Consall Forge in Staffordshire (...

The Boat Inn, Penallt, Monmouthshire Ever since the foundation of this blog, various people, most notably Cooking Lager , have said to m...

Blogger Mark Wadsworth has familiarised us with the concept of Indian Bicycle Marketing , whereby manufacturers use a lot of advertising flu...

Well, the long-awaited Pubs Code has finally come into effect , including the Market Rent Option (MRO) for tied tenants. To listen to some, ...

One of the good features of Wetherspoon’s pubs is that, as far as I’m aware, they don’t provide bar stools. However, this doesn’t deter dick...

This month’s Opening Times column criticises the oft-heard view than drinking in pubs is in some way “better” than drinking at home. So ...

If the only way you could get to drink your favourite beers at home was by buying a case of 12 identical bottles costing over £20, you would...

Boak and Bailey recently posted about defining a classic pub . I don’t really propose to get into that debate, except to say that to my mind...

Doesn't look like a microbrewery to me In the seventy years from the beginning of the twentieth century, as far as I can see not a s...

The other day, Cooking Lager said on Twitter that he was going to be entertaining his young nieces next weekend, and was wondering which pu...

For many years, there was a strange anomaly that the centre of Manchester, unlike that of any other major UK city outside London, was divide...

Last week, there was an utterly gobsmacking piece in the Morning Advertiser on How pubs overcame the hardest decade in the trade’s history ....

Following my recent post on the vexed subject of children in pubs, I decided to run a poll on whether the pre-1988 legal regime of barri...

When looking up my piece about the English Ethnic Restaurant , I came across an interesting set of speculations about the future of pubs an...