The Pub Curmudgeon

People were recently asked on Twitter to name some of their favourite beer books, and one in my collection for which I’ve always had a high ...

This satirical craft beer skit from comedian Alistair Green has been widely circulated recently: punk squirrel IPA pic.twitter.com/pztt7SN...

On Monday, I wrote about how some local councils were doing their best to put a spanner in the works of pubs reopening their outside areas....

Today at last sees the reopening of pubs in England for outdoor drinking, although the weather isn’t ideally suited to it. Obviously, this...

Back in February, I criticised the glacial pace of the Prime Minister’s roadmap for unlocking the country. Six weeks on, and pubs still c...

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...