The Pub Curmudgeon

The 1978 edition, which came out six months after I turned eighteen, was the first Good Beer Guide I ever bought. It played a formative rol...

As an emergency cost-saving measure following some disappointing financial figures, CAMRA have announced that they are not going to send out...

Following my post last week about the pitfalls of returning beer to the bar , I thought I would run a poll on how often people actually did ...

In their new book 20th Century Pub , Boak and Bailey reached the conclusion that “we feel unfashionably optimistic for the pub”. Now, in my ...

In writing my review of Boak & Bailey’s 20th Century Pub the other day, the thought occurred to me that a strong parallel could be draw...

There have been plenty of books written on the history of the British pub, and for the most part they cover the same ground. They run throug...

Something you won't see from the train The point has often been made that people’s experiences in their daily lives inevitably influ...

Cask beer is a natural, living, variable product and, as such, with the best will in the world, it’s inevitable that very occasionally you’l...

In the late Seventies, when I was at university in Birmingham, one of the most common beers to be found in the handful of free houses that h...

It has been recently reported that moderate alcohol consumption reduces the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. This is yet another contrib...

Alec Latham was recently musing on the subject of the two-thirds pint measure, which became legal in British pubs nearly six years ago, on ...

Martin Taylor has recently reported on encountering a Post Office-style queuing system in operation in Wetherspoon’s in Cheltenham, somethi...

One of the most marked changes in the pub trade over the forty years of my drinking career has been the ever-growing prominence of food. In ...

It’s taken as read amongst the beer writing fraternity that pubs, while they may be criticised for this or that, are unequivocally a Good Th...

I spotted the sign on the right in the Prince Rupert in Newark, Nottinghamshire, which belongs to a small pubco called Knead Pubs . Similar ...