The Pub Curmudgeon

A point I have often made on here in the past is that a key reason for the decline in pubgoing is changing attitudes to alcohol. Whereas onc...

Many drinkers will be familiar with the jovial, rotund chap with his foaming tankard who features on the label of bottled Taylor’s Landlord....

Last weekend I had an overnight stay in Stourbridge, Worcestershire. It may not seem the most likely tourist venue, but in fact it had been ...

It’s long been an article of faith amongst many CAMRA members and anti-pubco activists that a major cause of pub decline is conversions to r...

Various items of pub-related news pop up on Twitter, and one thing that has struck me is how often pubs are described as “popular”. Take the...

There’s a growing amount of interest in the development of driverless cars . The wider subject is really beyond the remit of this blog, alth...

Boak & Bailey recently posted a picture on Twitter of a sign outside the Dock Inn in Penzance listing the beers that are on offer. This...

Congratulations to the George & Dragon at Hudswell in North Yorkshire on being chosen as CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year for 2017 . A ...

In one of his budgets, maybe in 2012 or 2013, George Osborne mentioned in passing that “there would be no changes to previously announced al...

Nowadays, you can hardly log on to Facebook or Twitter without being asked to sign a petition in favour of something or other, whether on th...

Jeffrey Bell wrote recently about how the brewing industry was in the grip of craft paranoia : Almost everyone's worried they're ...

In my recent write-up of the James Watts in Cheadle, I complained about how high-level “posing tables” accounted for more than half of the ...

I’ve praised Hawkshead Brewery several times on here, both for brewing some excellent beers and for successfully straddling the divide betwe...

Hydes Brewery have recently carried out a major refurbishment of one of their pubs, the Old Star on Cheadle High Street (the Cheshire one, n...

Wow, apparently I’ve been awarded the title of The Worst Person on Beer Twitter. I’m so flattered my head will scarcely fit through the door...