The Pub Curmudgeon

On the National Bass Day Facebook group , several pubs such as the Old Vaults in Uttoxeter, the Fountain in Leek and the Devonshire Arms and...

The latest imposition on business from the public health lobby has surfaced in Bristol, where the city’s health and wellbeing board has prop...

As many readers will already be aware, National Bass Day is being held for the first time on Saturday 11th April this year, a day that marks...

It’s common to hear people refer disparagingly to “boring brown beer” and dismiss it as all much of a muchness. However, as former Fuller’s ...

Martyn Cornell recently wrote a very interesting post on his Zythophile blog In defence of sitting in a pub on your own . This is a subject ...

As explained on this website , children under the age of 18 are not allowed in a betting shop under any circumstances . This is obviously a ...

I was recently in a pub in central Stockport* when a bloke quickly finished his pint and said he had to leave to put a bet on at the nearby ...

“Dry January” always sees a surge in media interest in low-alcohol and alcohol-free beers, and they are certainly showing a substantial ris...

Well, at last we’ve got there. Forty-three months after the referendum, and ten months after it was supposed to happen, today we are fina...

Martin Taylor has drawn my attention to this brilliant skit making fun of people who take advantage of asking for tasters in pubs. The punch...

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that I’ve not always seen eye-to-eye with beer writer Pete Brown. However, when he puts th...

Over the past few days, the pub closures ticker in the sidebar has passed the 20,000 mark. Now, I’m well aware of the limitations of this da...

Pellicle magazine has recently published an article entitled Pubs, Parenthood and Children at the Heart of the Community advocating a more...

To tie in with Dry January, the Morning Advertiser reports that one in four pub visits no longer involve consuming an alcoholic drink. My ...

For a number of years, we have seen the Dry January campaign run by the public health lobby, which aims to encourage people to abstain from ...