The Pub Curmudgeon

The photograph below was taken in the Reddish Working Men’s Club in Stockport in 1977. I have copied it from a Stockport-related Facebook gr...

Readers sometimes confuse a tone of nostalgic regret for one of anger on this blog, and I think that may have been the case with my recent p...

On his recent visit to Stockport , Paul Mudge lent me a vintage pub guide he owned entitled The Greater Manchester Good Beer Guide . It isn’...

It didn’t take long for someone to win the Keg Pub Challenge , when blog reader Matt found that the North Manchester district of Collyhurst ...

Manchester has become well-known for its cutting-edge beer scene, and its craft beer shrines such as Port Street Beer House and Café Beermo...

Matthew Curtis recently wrote an article on the Manchester beer scene entitled The City with a Thorn in its Side . Now, in general, it’s ...

I recently wrote about how keg pubs sail under the radar of CAMRA and beer writing. Several people responded on Twitter to say that I wa...

Readers of the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing will be familiar with the name of Paul Mudge from Stafford, who is a frequent and outspoken c...

An argument that I’ve made more than once in the past is that CAMRA made a major strategic error by deciding that the relationship between b...

There are about 50,000 pubs in Britain today. CAMRA’s WhatPub online guide lists just short of 36,000 that sell real ale, leaving some 14,0...

The latest proposal to rear its ugly head in the People’s Prohibitionist Republic of Scotland is one from “public health experts” to ban the...

One aspect of Marston’s rebranding brainfart last week that seemed to get lost in the noise was the news that Pedigree was going to become ...

This week, Marston’s have announced a major revamp of their beer branding , as shown in the picture above. However, the initial impression...

There has recently been a debate in the columns of the CAMRA newspaper What’s Brewing about whether pubs should make more effort to stock d...

A claim made more than once by egregious blogtroll “py” is that heavily-hopped New World-style IPAs are much more “accessible” than conven...