The Pub Curmudgeon

Over the past thirty years, humps seem to have multiplied inexorably across the roads of Britain. Some see them as a valuable tool to improv...

The Ryecroft Arms in Cheadle Hulme provides an excellent case study of the issues surrounding the viability and potential redevelopment of ...

The serving temperature of cask beer is a perennial source of complaint. On the one hand, many people such as Martin Taylor report frequent...

People have sometimes criticised this blog for its negative tone, although in a sense that’s the point. However, I’ve always highlighted t...

Greg Mulholland was one of the few Liberal Democrat MPs to survive the carnage of the 2015 General Election. Since his original election in ...

Last month, there was an outbreak of debate in the blogosphere about whether small brewers were getting a reasonable return for their effor...

Do you really want this lurking in your pint? Last week, the Good Pub Guide gave us an object lesson in how to do a press launch – pick...

I was recently in Whitchurch, Shropshire, and spotted the very appealing-looking White Bear , tucked away in a courtyard just off the cent...

If you read this blog via the desktop site rather than on a mobile, you will have noticed that in the left-hand sidebar there are a couple o...

Following my recent post about the rise of family dining pubs , I thought I would ask readers what types of pubs they had visited recently. ...

The Good Pub Guide always comes across to me as more like the “Good Middle-Class Dining Pub Guide”, and its independence has to be calle...

Jeremy Corbyn attracted a lot of flak last week for his suggestion that the practice of after-work drinks discriminated against mothers in ...

Last week, I ran a poll which showed that a large majority of respondents thought that beer in British pubs was typically too dear . So, as ...

If you want to know what’s happening in an industry, often the best way is to look at where the major players are spending their money, as t...

The clue to what CAMRA should concentrate on can be found in its name CAMRA is currently in the midst of a Revitalisation Project, which ...