The Pub Curmudgeon

Takeovers of up-and-coming craft breweries by international brewers have now become so commonplace that they no longer produce the gasps of ...

The mention in my account of our trip to Huddersfield of the Sportsman pub, which had been built by local brewer Seth Senior in 1930, promp...

I’ve recently been re-reading The Brewing Industry 1950-1990 by Anthony Avis, a fascinating memoir to which I will devote a longer blogpost...

If you asked most people about their reasons for choosing a particular pub, they would list factors such as the company, a relaxing atmosphe...

We pick up our visit to Huddersfield having left the Slubbers Arms and making our way back towards the town centre. Our next call was the S...

Our latest Proper Day Out organised via the Beer & Pubs Forum took us across the Pennines to Huddersfield on Friday 8th March. While ...

While I help run my local one, I can’t say I’m much of a fan of beer festivals as a customer. Standing around in a draughty municipal hall d...

On February 1st, there was another small turn of the anti-drink ratchet when a new higher band of cider duty was introduced for products bet...

The Morning Advertiser has recently reported how pubs have grown to rival restaurants , with no less than seventeen now possessing Michelin...

Earlier this week, I reported on how craft beer enthusiasts were outraged at being subject to the same restrictions on large containers of ...

Alcohol watchdog the Portman Group have recently published new guidelines on the packaging of alcoholic drinks which seek to impose a limit...

The March edition of CAMRA’s monthly newspaper What’s Brewing contained a long letter from seven representatives of young members’ groups c...

Recently, somebody posed the question on Twitter as to which subjects did not get sufficient attention from beer writers. There were the pre...

Whenever people best known for their writing on wine venture on to the subject of beer, they invariably shoot themselves in the foot. And ra...

There was good news for the British brewing industry in the beer sales figures for 2018 released yesterday by the British Beer & Pub As...