The Pub Curmudgeon

I recently caught up at last with GBG ticker Simon Everitt of BRAPA fame at the Cherry Tree in Culcheth , a rather nondescript suburb of War...

As I’m sure all my readers are aware, last Saturday saw the announcement of the results of the voting on the great issue of our times – CAMR...

Today is the closing date for postal and online voting on the Special Resolutions about CAMRA’s Revitalisation project, so I’ve closed my ...

I’ve created a poll in the sidebar about CAMRA Revitalisation, which I have written about extensively over the past few months. However, kno...

The government have announced that they intend to introduce a deposit scheme for plastic bottles , which they will consider extending to gla...

In 2002, Gordon Brown, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced a system of Small Brewers’ Relief providing a lower level of duty...

Last month, I wrote about CAMRA’s Revitalisation proposals in a post entitled Stick to the knitting , and expressed a considerable degree of...

In recent months, there has been a steady procession of pub operators announcing that they were phasing out the use of plastic straws, the l...

Earlier this week, Public Health England came up with a quite jawdropping list of foods they intend to target as part of a campaign to reduc...

The introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland is now less than two months away. The policy has provoked a huge amount of ...

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...