The Pub Curmudgeon

Pete Brown (yes, him again) has recently been complaining in the Morning Advertiser about the poor aesthetic presentation of beer as compa...

This isn’t an overtly political blog beyond the sphere of lifestyle politics. However, for each major national election, out of interest I’v...

Last week, there was a rather odd report claiming that British people were the biggest boozers in the world. This was based on a survey whi...

In recent years there has been a growing amount of interest in and media coverage of vegetarian and vegan diets. The impression given is t...

Yesterday I wrote about how there was a fundamental limitation to the extent to which pubs could diversify their offer to attract non-drink...

A major problem for the pub trade is the growing proportion of young people who have chosen not to drink alcohol at all. In response to this...

We pick up our story having left the Victoria and heading back along Clifton Road towards the centre of Rugby. This brought us to the Squir...

I recently came across this interesting article discussing whether the temperature at which it is served is holding cask ale back. However,...

Our next Beer & Pubs Forum Proper Day Out took us to the Warwickshire town of Rugby on Friday 3rd May. The home of the famous school ma...

Go back forty years, and there were basically just three types of real ale sold on draught in British pubs – mild, bitter and old ale. Each ...

It’s generally taken as read that beer in the North has a thick creamy head, while Southern beer is flat. There’s a fair bit of truth in thi...

Last week I described how the craft beer movement had, in Europe, to a large extent ended up making its pitch against established, indigeno...

I was rather amused by the latest Foster’s ad which pokes fun at beer snobs and their liking for “fancy pants beers”. Note the sandpapering ...

You often nowadays see “craft” and “cask” being treated as two entirely separate and mutually exclusive categories, both in discussion about...

It was disappointing, to say the least, that, earlier today, a motion supporting minimum alcohol pricing was passed at CAMRA’s National Con...