The Pub Curmudgeon

Why don’t we have a day out in Oxford, asked someone on the Beer & Pubs Forum . It sounded right up my street, with a great selection of...

Following last week’s debate about élitism in beer , there has been a bit of pondering about whether the high price of craft beer is deterri...

This year sees the 100th anniversary of (some) women being given the right to vote in the UK. What has gained much less attention is that...

CAMRA have now published the detailed proposals arising from their Revitalisation Project , which not surprisingly have prompted a lot of de...

The British Beer & Pub Association have published their latest Quarterly Beer Barometer statistics, bringing the series up to the end o...

“I think we’ve seen the worst of the pub closures,” said the Pollyannas. “Things seem to have stabilised now.” But how wrong could they be? ...

One of the key planks of CAMRA’s Revitalisation proposals is that, while continuing to recognise real ale as “the pinnacle of the brewer’s ...

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 ...