The Pub Curmudgeon

Although some pedants would argue that it doesn’t actually happen until the end of next year, this month marks the end of what has proved to...

It’s now that time when people turn to reviewing the highs and lows of the year that is drawing to a close. So here are some of my thoughts....

This month sees the fifth anniversary of the reduction of the drink-driving limit in Scotland in December 2014. At the time, the immediate ...

Today we are going to the polls in a general election for the third time in less than five years. As on previous occasions, I created an o...

Last week, it was reported that US drinks conglomerate Constellation Brands was selling craft brewer Ballast Point , which it had bought for...

Regular readers will know that a frequent bugbear of mine is the presence of noisy, badly-behaved children in pubs. Now, I’m not such a curm...

I’ve described before how the British craft beer movement, while taking most of its cues from its American counterparts, chose to direct mos...

Certainly looks like a town to me We recently visited Shifnal in Shropshire, which in its general feel and appearance is undoubtedly a ...

I was recently having a pint in Wetherspoon’s Calvert’s Court in Stockport* and spotted a group including one member with learning disabilit...

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....