The Pub Curmudgeon

On my recent visit to Cambridge, I happened to be driving through the village of Harston, to the south-west of the city, and spotted a close...

Over the past couple of years, Sam Smith’s have abruptly closed a substantial number of the pubs in their estate. Where the pubs have car pa...

I’m not generally one for “what I did on my holidays” posts, but last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, which I thought would be worth...

Wetherspoon’s have recently cut the price of some beers by 20p a pint as a way of illustrating the benefits that could be gained from a pos...

Spectator Life magazine recently published a feature on the best country pubs within touching distance of London. I posted on Twitter that...

My recent post about how judging the quality of beer contains a large element of subjectivity was prompted by Boak & Bailey defending ...

Every year, the Good Pub Guide is published around this time, and often courts controversy with the accompanying publicity. As I’ve mention...

We pick up the story of our Proper Day Out in Preston having just left the Olde Blue Bell and retracing our steps along Churchgate towards ...

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...