The Pub Curmudgeon

One of the motivations behind CAMRA’s Revitalisation Project was a widespread feeling that the organisation too often insisted on a nitpicki...

In the wake of the latest Cask Report, Pete Brown (yes, him again) has recently made some interesting observations on The Market for Flavour...

“Are we having another one here, or do you want to move on?” is a familiar question asked in pubs on countless days and nights out. But it’s...

I was recently looking at one or two lists people had compiled of their favourite pubs, or ones that had impressed them recently. One thing ...

I’ve discussed in the past the key role pubs can play in alleviating loneliness and social isolation , especially amongst older men. This is...

I have a local pub, and indeed an architecturally distinguished one. Five years ago, I wrote about how the Sunday lunchtime drinking experie...

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...