The Pub Curmudgeon

The Morning Advertiser reports on Frazer Grimbleby (surely a character from an Ealing comedy) of Craft Union Pub Company talking about the ...

Twenty years ago, if you were after “interesting” home-grown draught beer in the UK, cask was the only game in town. However, since then the...

Last year, the recommended maximum levels of alcohol consumption were reduced to just 14 units a week for both men and women, the equivalent...

Our recent visit to the Olde England in Northampton reminded me of the vexed question of the inadequate provision of toilets in micropubs. ...

If we set aside Guinness as Irish, Bass must be the most famous British beer brand in the world. However, in recent years, especially in its...

A couple of months ago, we held a very enjoyable Beer & Pubs Forum day out in Oxford . Someone suggested that, for a future event, we c...

Despite some high-profile flouncing, there’s little doubt that the general thrust of the Revitalisation Project was carried at the recent CA...

Well, minimum alcohol pricing has finally arrived in Scotland today. There’s not a great deal I can add to the points I made here and here ...

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...