The Pub Curmudgeon

While it had been well signalled in advance, the news yesterday that the end of lockdown restrictions was being postponed by a further fou...

The British craft beer movement has been marked not only by a commitment to brewing interesting and innovative beer, but by taking a princip...

The Covid crisis has provided a golden opportunity for the Puritans and bansturbators of the public health lobby. Not content with just deli...

Regular readers will be aware that I have a fondness for authentic German lagers. So I was pleased last September to see Paulaner Münchner H...

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...