The Pub Curmudgeon

The cask breather has for long been a bone of contention within CAMRA. It’s described here : A cask breather, sometimes called an “aspira...

CAMRA have now released more detail of their Revitalisation proposals that are going to be put to a vote of the membership at the AGM in Ap...

Matthew Lawrenson of Seeing the Lizards has recently done a couple of very honest blogposts on the subject of autism and pubgoing – here a...

The Morning Advertiser has recently published the results of a YouGov survey showing that 39% of people were uncomfortable about sending ...

The latest example of apparently heavy-handed bureaucratic regulation to hit the beer world is the ruling by Trading Standards that it is mi...

Before Christmas, the Morning Advertiser published a piece entitled What are the major beer trends for 2018? The ones it listed were: Hig...

My recent post about the closure of Winters on Little Underbank highlighted the issue of the regeneration of Stockport town centre. It can’...

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...