The Pub Curmudgeon

Over the Christmas weekend I learned that two more Stockport pubs were to close their doors in the new year. While neither could be said to ...

Over the past forty years, there have been dramatic and very noticeable shifts in the way pubs actually function, and in the ebb and flow of...

Following my general review of 2017 , here’s a selection of my most significant posts from throughout the year. There are twelve in total, b...

As in previous years, I offer a summary of some of the notable points of 2017. Last year’s is here . It can’t really be called “Golden Pints...

Regular readers of this blog will have realised that I don’t have much enthusiasm for selling beer in “child-sized” 330 ml cans, or for ador...

In pictures of people drinking in the 1930s, a distinctive straight, ten-sided tankard often features. Indeed, it was adopted as a symbol ...

Innis & Gunn occupy a rather odd position in the British beer firmament. They are an independent company, founded in 2003, who make a d...

“How about a trip to Crewe?” suggested Ian Woosey aka Hardy on the Beer and Pubs Forum . “There’s a couple of National Inventory pubs I want...

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...