The Pub Curmudgeon

The hackneyed topic of cask beer premiumisation has recently reared its head again in the shape of comments by Georgina Young of St Austell ...

The Daily Telegraph reports that an increasingly abstemious younger generation are blowing a large hole in the government’s revenue foreca...

It was reported earlier this week that the highly-regarded Elland Brewery in West Yorkshire was facing liquidation . Obviously sympathy has ...

Several industry bodies have joined together to campaign for a reduction of VAT applying to hospitality and tourism from 20% to 10% in the f...

In a move that will surprise no-one, the Guardian reports that the Scottish government are planning to announce a 30% increase in the mini...

Following Tim Martin receiving a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List, J. D. Wetherspoon have achieved recognition as one of Britain’s ...

Last December, I produced a summary of changes resulting from the introduction of the new reduced duty rate for beers of 3.4% or below, whi...

In its dying days, the present government seems to have developed a distinctly illiberal streak. First there was the utterly appalling creep...

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...