The Pub Curmudgeon

Back in August, I attracted a lot of attention for my post on The Cask Crisis , which looked at the reasons behind the decline in cask’s sal...

A Suffolk pub has claimed to be the first in Britain to go entirely cashless and stop accepting any payments in cash. This seems to be a ra...

The industry-funded alcohol education body Drinkaware have recently teamed up with Public Health England to launch a campaign to encourage p...

We now take it for granted that the alcoholic strength of beers and other alcoholic drinks is declared on packaging and at point of sale. It...

Last month, CAMRA reported the results of a survey revealing that a majority of people in the UK now considered the price of a pint in the p...

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...