The Pub Curmudgeon

It’s generally accepted that drinking large quantities of alcohol over a prolonged period really doesn’t do you any good. On the other hand,...

I have written a couple of times about the planned Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) in Scotland, most recently here . I made the point that the S...

From time to time, you see stories about under-18s being ID’d in shops when trying to buy alcohol-free beers. On the face of it, this seems ...

Last Autumn, I wrote about the issues surrounding the Scottish Government’s plans to introduce a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for beverage c...

We live in an ageing society, with an ever-increasing ratio of older people compared with younger ones. However, you would never guess this ...

It’s perhaps surprising that it’s as long ago as 2011 that the government halved the rate of duty for beers of 2.8% ABV or below. However, t...

There has been talk recently of a move away from dining pubs back towards wet-led ones. This is a theme taken up in this BBC report from Fe...

Last year, the government announced that, as part of the general restructuring of alcohol duties to come into effect from 1 August this year...

My pub visits this year so far have reinforced my view that Wetherspoon’s must attract a wider cross-section of society than any other pub o...

Alex Polizzi has presented The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5 since 2008. In the show, she looks at a variety of struggling hotels and guest ...

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...