The Pub Curmudgeon

Just over three months ago, I wrote about the government’s painfully slow roadmap to unlocking the economy, and in particular the hospitali...

Although pubs have now been allowed to reopen indoors, the requirements for table service and continued social distancing mean that they are...

As of today, pubs in England will once more be able to welcome customers indoors, although they will still have to operate table service. Pu...

Al fresco drinking gets off to a storming start in Scotland Around the time of the implementation of the smoking ban, the question was ofte...

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...