The Pub Curmudgeon

The Lancashire city of Preston is well-known for celebrating its Guild Festival every twenty years, and it occurred to me that the last time...

Last week, Boak & Bailey defended people’s right to make subjective judgments about beer without having their sincerity questioned. It ...

Last month, I wrote about how it was becoming ever harder to find pubs whose decor and general offer hadn’t fairly recently been put under...

The determined band of drinkers who assemble in Wetherspoon’s at 9 am are often viewed with a mixture of amusement, derision and pity. There...

The Morning Advertiser reports on a survey which claims that Millennials feel five times more likely to be pressurised into drinking alco...

The government have, perhaps rashly, pledged to end smoking in England by 2030 , as part of “a range of measures to tackle the causes of p...

It happens as regular as clockwork at this time of year. A few days of hot, sunny weather bring people out into beer gardens for the first t...

In the early years of my drinking career, one of the most interesting aspects was visiting new pubs and finding so many that seemed to have ...

At the end of June, I spent a few days in Cornwall, and on the way back stayed for a night in Gloucester. While I was there, I called in to ...

I recently made a couple of posts that touched on issues of beer dispense. These spurred me to look at what was going on in pubs more closel...

Three weeks ago, as part of our day out in Uttoxeter , we were very kindly given a lift by Paul Mudge’s wife Jacquie to the outlying Plough....

We pick up our story in the back room of the Vaults in Uttoxeter. The next pub on the itinerary was the Plough on Stafford Road, but this w...

The Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter is best known for its racecourse and being the home of JCB and Elkes Biscuits. The name will also...

A Bristol licensee has recently complained that her profits were being adversely affected by customers choosing just to drink tap water wit...

In the early days of CAMRA, a substantial proportion of cask beer, especially in the Midlands and North of England, was served via electric ...