The Pub Curmudgeon

Last year, eyebrows were raised when the Chief Medical Officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, announced that the alcohol guidelines for men...

Tomorrow, a debate is being held in Parliament on the subject of the crippling level of beer taxation. This is an issue that has been ado...

Whenever the Good Beer Guide is discussed, someone inevitably pipes up with a comment that surely WhatPub now makes it largely redundant. ...

The Good Beer Guide is including ever more unconventional outlets such as brewery taps and micropubs that fall well outside the general ...

Beer writer Des de Moor has recently written a deliberately provocative article entitled Love beer hate pubs , in which he looks at the appa...

Last month, Richard Coldwell of Beer Leeds suggested that he, Martin Taylor and I get together for a day out which we could all write up o...

There scarcely seems to be a week that goes by when GBG ticker Martin Taylor doesn’t go into a smart dining pub in some leafy part of the c...

Sophie Atherton has recently written in the Morning Advertiser about how today’s pubs are so often offputtingly noisy. It’s an article tha...

In last week’s issue of the Spectator , there was an interesting article (registration may be required) by Rory Sutherland in which he argu...

This article in the Morning Advertiser by Pete Brown has sparked a lot of interest and discussion. In it, he’s arguing that people should ...

Last Saturday, I organised a pub tour of central Birmingham for members of the Beer and Pubs Forum . It may not seem the most likely of dest...

Following the launch of Drinkers’ Voice last month, I’ve been having a few thoughts about the best way to put the message across, and the f...

There’s a growing interest in non-alcoholic and low-alcohol beers, or “NABLABs”, with an increasing number of modern craft brewers getting i...

The latest version of the annual Cask Report has been published this week. There’s a lot to digest in there, and I’m not proposing to do a ...

Following last year’s exercise in shooting themselves in the foot , this year CAMRA were more on target with their Good Beer Guide press la...