The Pub Curmudgeon

Last Monday at last saw the arrival of the delayed “Freedom Day”, when all formal Covid-related restrictions relating to pubs were lifted. H...

The trade are often keen to make the point that pubs act as a community hub for a wide cross-section of society and are far more than just c...

Last week saw the untimely death on his 67th birthday of David Thompson , the former chairman of Marston’s, which, it should be remembered, ...

There will have been a huge sigh of the relief in the hospitality industry when the Prime Minister announced last night that it was his inte...

When I was a child, my dad used to sing a fragment of a comic song from before the war that went “I’m going back to Imasas”. But it didn’t r...

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...