The Pub Curmudgeon

Westerham Brewery have recently announced that they are progressively switching all their packaged beer from bottles to cans . They say that...

Over the past few days, there has been a lot of focus in the media on vaccine passports. These are not a single concept, and obviously if an...

Back in 2016, I reported on how the imminent introduction of the ill-considered “sugar tax” was likely to lead to some popular soft drinks...

With the prospect of three long, dreary months still ahead of us before pubs in England (allegedly) return to anything like the normality we...

When it opened in the mid-80s, the branch of Sainsbury’s on Warren Street in the centre of Stockport, along with the ASDA directly opposite,...

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 ...