The Pub Curmudgeon

The Morning Advertiser reports that the craft beer sector has started to see a decline in sales . This has started with packaged products, ...

We pick up the story of our day out in Shifnal with us having just left the White Hart and crossing the road in the steady rain to reach th...

Our latest Proper Day Out organised through the Beer & Pubs Forum took us on Friday 22 November to the small Shropshire town of Shifnal...

At a recent meeting of the local CAMRA branch at the Sun & Castle in Stockport, we had a very interesting talk from Jane Kershaw of Holt...

A new bar has recently opened in Nottingham called the Tap House where customers are allowed to pour their own beer . It’s difficult to avoi...

It seems as though elections have become a regular fixture nowadays. We’ve just embarked on the fifth national poll in less than five years....

The other week, I was served a pint in a pub that tasted distinctly off to me. It was a beer I’d never had before, so it’s possible that it ...

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...