The Pub Curmudgeon

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about declining cask beer sales, and the vicious circle of falling turnover and lower quality acro...

Regular readers will be aware that I’ve not always seen eye to eye with beer writer Pete Brown. He can talk a lot of sense when he sticks to...

Going back sixty years, most pubs in the UK apart from the very smallest had a compartmentalised interior layout. Typically, they would have...

I’ve done an analysis like this before, but it’s worth repeating in the light of the recent highlighting of the widespread quality issues wi...

We pick up the story of our day out in Worcester having just left the Plough, which I wrote about in Part 1 . Crossing over the High Street,...

Our latest Beer and Pubs Forum Proper Day Out took place in the last week of September with a visit to the cathedral city of Worcester. It’...

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...