The Pub Curmudgeon

The contents of the Prime Minister’s announcement last Monday of the roadmap to unlocking were widely leaked in advance, so none of the cont...

I didn’t really see much point in blogging about yesterday’s announcement about the snail-like pace of reopening the country. It has all bee...

Next month will see the 50th anniversary of the Campaign for Real Ale, which was started by four young English journalists in Kruger’s Bar i...

Very little in our daily lives has escaped the reach of Covid over the past year, not least in the sphere of beer and pubs. What follows is ...

Many people have been complaining about the unreasonableness of the rule that, before the lockdown, only allowed pubs and restaurants to ser...

This Spring will mark forty-five years since I first bought myself a pint in a pub at the age of sixteen. Since then, obviously many things ...

As I said in my previous post, “It may seem a distant pipedream at present, but the day will eventually come when the pubs are allowed to op...

It may seem a distant pipedream at present, but the day will eventually come when the pubs are allowed to open again. When it does arrive, t...

Just before Christmas came the news that Brains Brewery of Cardiff had signed a 25-year deal with Marston’s to take over the running of thei...

Each December, I’ve usually produced a summary of the past year’s events as they’ve affected me. This is what I wrote last year ...

The tier system in England as at 19 December 2020 Going back a couple of months to October, although it seems much longer ago, many people...

While writing my post last week about Stella Artois , I did a little research to find out where it stood in the league table of British be...

From today, while the pubs remain firmly shut in over 40% of England, including my local area, in just over half the country they will be al...

Amidst all the excitement surrounding news of lockdowns and tiers, Budweiser Brewing Group UK & Ireland (which seems to be the new name ...

Tom Kerridge’s TV series on saving the British pub has turned the spotlight on the activities of the large tied pubcos. To many people, the ...