The Pub Curmudgeon

Whenever some headline-grabbing “public health” policy is announced, there are always some implications that haven’t been fully thought thro...

There was some confusion following last week’s Budget as to exactly what the proposals for cider were. Initial reporting gave the impression...

Last month, I wrote about how there was a collective delusion in the British pub trade in refusing to accept that over-ranging was a major f...

“Craft beer costs more because it uses better ingredients to produce a higher quality beer.” It’s almost become received wisdom nowadays. Bu...

The Morning Advertiser has recently published a feature on the leading products in the on-trade for each drinks category. The top ten cask ...

...is paved with good intentions, as the saying goes. And there have been quite a few people trying to make a partial defence of the Scottis...

By removing the previous restrictions on opening new pubs and bars, the 2003 Licensing Act has certainly allowed a thousand flowers to bloom...

Last month, I wrote about how people had exaggerated expectations for alcohol-free beers . The problem is that, however good they taste, the...

Anyone who hasn’t visited Stockport for a couple of years will be surprised, to say the least, to see the new Redrock leisure complex risin...

Following yesterday’s announcement, here are a few more thoughts off the top of my head on the minimum pricing issue. None of the people pr...

It was disappointing, although not entirely surprising, news that the Supreme Court has rejected the Scotch Whisky Association’s appeal aga...

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...