The Pub Curmudgeon

In my recent review of our trip to Leicester , I mentioned that, from my experience, I didn’t think that the city offered as a good a pub-cr...

There’s been a lot of discussion about this story reporting a shock 3.6% fall in pub beer sales compared with the same quarter last year. H...

This is a post made by Kieran Lyons, owner of the Blue Boar in Leicester (pictured), on the Beer and Pubs Forum and CAMRA Discourse, which ...

My attention was recently drawn to this particularly harrowing account of the experience of alcoholics in thrall to high-strength ciders an...

I wrote up last month’s trip to Leicester with what Richard Coldwell rightly described as a “straight bat”. I adopted the style I use for r...

Following our recent three-blogger trip to Leicester , Richard Coldwell has done a series of posts looking at each pub in more detail. One t...

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...