The Pub Curmudgeon

As craft beer grows in popularity, it gets into a wider range of outlets. And, in the off-trade, that inevitably means that it moves out o...

There used to be a very straightforward ritual attached to closing time in pubs. Ten minutes before the actual time, “Last orders at the bar...

The impact of the 2007 smoking ban on the pub trade has been a perennial source of debate. Only the most blinkered denialist would claim t...

In the past many CAMRA branches produced comprehensive printed guides to real ale pubs in their local areas, and often clubbed together to...

Writing in the Morning Advertiser , Pete Brown wonders whether this is the last time he will have to drop the c-bomb? It is certainly true ...

We pick up the story of our Proper Day Out in Liverpool having just left the Lion Tavern and heading down the narrow street of Hackins Hey ...

The Morning Advertiser reports that the drinks industry are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential introduction of plain packa...

Our latest Beer & Pubs Forum Proper Day Out involved a visit to Liverpool on Friday 4 October. I grew up in Runcorn, from which Liverpo...

The most recent version of the annual Cask Report was published last month. Against a background of falling sales, it argued that the key to...

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 ...