The Pub Curmudgeon

The government have announced that the £2 cap on bus fares in England is going to be extended until the end of June . Some eyebrows may have...

Earlier this month, the local branch of CAMRA held its annual Good Beer Guide selection meeting in the upstairs room of the Magnet pub in S...

Simon Everitt recently spotted this sign on his GBG ticking travels in the Split Chimp micropub in Whitley Bay, Northumberland. It comes ac...

Back in December 2021, I reported on how New Zealand was planning to introduce a kind of creeping prohibition of tobacco , with the legal pu...

It was reported recently that Guinness had overtaken Carling * to become, for the first time, the best-selling beer brand in the UK. The mak...

In the face of rocketing energy bills, many pubs are currently reducing their opening hours. They really can’t be blamed if turning the heat...

In my Review of 2022 , I mentioned that I had visited 128 different pubs during the year. This was considerably more than in the two years o...

In my post about Falling out of love with alcohol , I mentioned the British Beer & Pub Association’s detailed table of beer sales statis...

Over the weekend, there was an interesting article in the Observer entitled Last orders: how we fell out of love with alcohol . This isn’t ...

Wetherspoon’s are currently running a January Sale including price cuts across a whole range of food and drink items, including reducing the...

July saw the fifteenth anniversary of this blog, which of course was originally sparked by the smoking ban. Sad to report that I have achiev...

This time last year, pubs had been spared the Covid restrictions that had been reimposed on large sections of the economy due to concerns ab...

A significant development of the past few years that has perhaps not received the attention it deserves is the rise of franchise models for ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote about how the unintended consequence of banning displays of “HFSS” foods in supermarkets had been a mushroom...

Regular readers will know that I’m an enthusiastic user of Twitter. In recent weeks, there has been a mixture of excitement and consternatio...