The Pub Curmudgeon

One of the enduring themes of this blog has been that the smoking ban was not only objectionable in its own right, but that it was also like...

Last November, I welcomed CAMRA stalwart, fellow curmudgeon and sort-of namesake Paul Mudge to Stockport for a wander round some of our exce...

Last Autumn, I questioned whether Marston’s relaunch of their flagship beer Pedigree as a bottle-conditioned product was a good idea. My co...

During the 1970s and 80s, the “Big Six” national brewers were very much the pantomime villains of CAMRA, closing traditional breweries, axin...

Last Saturday, as I reported here , I attended the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival for the Great Manchester Beer Debate. Now, I can’t say...

Following the news that Cloudwater were abandoning cask brewing, there’s been a lot of talk about whether brewers of cask beer were getting ...

Yesterday at the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival I attended the Great Manchester Beer Debate on the broad subject of “The changing beer ...

I certainly can’t match such determined stalwarts as Alan Winfield , Martin Taylor or Simon Everitt , but, ever since I first got my hands ...

I recently came across yet another of those articles on Annoying things pub-goers do that infuriate staff . Even by the standards of such th...

My recent post about Samuel Smith’s led to a discussion about where their Old Brewery Bitter should be ranked against its competitors. Some...

Regular readers will be aware that I don’t really have that much time for beer writer Pete Brown. He comes across as arrogant and self-opini...

I’ve sometimes been accused on this blog of being an unpaid cheerleader for Samuel Smith’s Brewery. Now, I don’t think that’s entirely fair ...

Following the announcement that Cloudwater were quitting cask production, there’s been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about how brewers of...

A group of middle-aged men sort out the future of beer During 2016, CAMRA has been undertaking a Revitalisation Project, which not unrea...

There was a lot of excitement in the beer blogosphere yesterday following the news that Manchester’s Cloudwater Brewery was to stop producin...