The Pub Curmudgeon

I’m a regular follower of Martin Taylor’s blog which records his travels around the country in his Sisyphean quest to tick off every pub in...

This week has seen the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of all-day opening for pubs, which came in on 22 August 1988. From the pers...

Jeff Alworth has recently made a very interesting post on his Beervana blog entitled What If We Just Stop Drinking? which speculates on the...

In recent years, licensing authorities have put a lot of pressure on pubs and bars to stamp out promotions that supposedly encourage irrespo...

A few years ago, I wrote a piece about the State Management Scheme in Carlisle and the surrounding areas, which was introduced in 1916 at t...

The industry-funded group behind “There’s a Beer For That” has now transformed itself into Long Live The Local , which is campaigning for a ...

We were recently discussing the idea of “destination beers”, that is either ones that you need to journey to experience at all, or which are...

This is the second half of my account of our Digbeth heritage pub crawl on Wednesday 11 July – see here for the first one. The Anchor ...

Last October, we had a very enjoyable Beer and Pubs Forum Proper Day Out in Birmingham. We discussed making a return visit to the city with...

From time to time, someone comes up with a report claiming that food is the future of pubs, and that wet-led pubs are doomed to disappear. I...

All About Beer magazine has recently published an article by Boak and Bailey entitled Decoding the English Pub , about the potential pitfal...

The current spell of hot weather inevitably raises a question mark over the quality of the cask beer you’re likely to encounter in the pub. ...

This is the column that I submitted earlier this month for the next edition of my local CAMRA magazine Opening Times , which is due to be pu...

Over the weekend, I was in one of the dwindling number of pubs in my local area of a broadly traditional character. I saw what I assumed was...

Over the weekend, Boak and Bailey tweeted a telling little anecdote. Bloke tried to order a half of DIPA. Mates berated him for being “such...