The Pub Curmudgeon

Last week’s issue of the Spectator magazine contained a very insightful article by Henry Jeffreys entitled How Britain sobered up , looking...

The Morning Advertiser reports that Carlsberg-Marston’s have decided to discontinue the use of traditional “Union sets” for brewing Marsto...

In a result that will surprise no-one, health campaigners have found that eliminating the largest size of wine glass reduces the amount peo...

The annual Dry January campaign inevitably turns the spotlight on non-alcoholic beers, which in recent years have been the subject of a gro...

As a measure of deregulation made possible by leaving the European Union, the government have announced a modest extension of the permitted...

Elon Musk did a major service to Twitter in 2022 in taking it over and removing the stifling blanket of censorship that had previously appli...

2023 was the first full year since 2019 that the pub trade was entirely free of Covid restrictions or the threat of them being reimposed. Ho...

There’s recently been another outbreak of discussion on the vexed issue of pubs charging more for half-pints than a strict 50% of the price ...

The Morning Advertiser has recently reported on the top ten best-selling cask ale brands of 2023 , as shown in the table below. Doom Bar re...

From 1 August this year, a major reform of UK alcohol duties was introduced. As far as beer is concerned, the biggest change was raising the...

The Morning Advertiser reports that Leeds-based brewery Northern Monk has discontinued two of its seasonal products after complaints again...

The Guardian reports on research that has found that British firms are earning a staggering £52.7bn a year from “smoking, excess drinking ...

At last week’s meeting of the local CAMRA branch at the Blossoms in Stockport, we were given a talk by Oliver and William Robinson of Robins...

The general subject of self-driving cars is really beyond the remit of this blog, but one obvious benefit they might bring is to make it muc...

The well-known Laurieston Bar in Glasgow has been put on the market due to the retirement of the owners John and James Clancy, who have ru...