The Pub Curmudgeon

The sale of Fuller’s brewing interests to Asahi has underlined the highly exposed position in which many of the established, medium-sized fi...

There was shock news this morning when it was announced that Japanese brewers Asahi were buying Fuller’s brewing business for £250 million ....

Over the past couple of years, there has been a marked increase in interest in no- and low-alcohol beers, accompanied by a substantial rise ...

Over the weekend, Boak & Bailey published a long and thorough blogpost on the story of Watney’s Red Barrel , which is well worth reading...

Over the weekend, my attention was drawn to this blogpost entitled Is Craft Beer Burning Out? The opening paragraph immediately grabs your ...

There have been quite a few articles in recent months asking the question of “how to save cask?” Some of these, especially those from across...

For some years now, we have often seen assertions from sections of the beer commentariat that one of the main causes of the decline of the p...

Between Christmas and New Year, the Daily Telegraph reported how Public Health England were urging the government to impose strict maximum ...

The Manchester Evening News has recently published figures showing the shocking extent of pub closures across the region since 2001, as sh...

When it’s a bar, of course. While there’s no specific legal distinction, the two carry very different connotations. However, it’s notoriousl...

This month sees the fourth anniversary of the reduction of the drink-driving limit in Scotland, which I wrote about here . The University of...

If you had said to the people who were in at the birth of CAMRA that, forty-five years later, the organisation would be promoting keg beer, ...

For a number of years, something called “The Session” has been run on a monthly basis amongst beer bloggers. This is basically asking the v...

Regular readers will know that I have often praised the cheap prices, unspoilt character and congenial atmosphere of many Sam Smith’s pubs....

Minimum alcohol pricing has now been in effect in Scotland for six months. I wrote about this at the time . Given that nothing of this kind ...