The Pub Curmudgeon

The past three months have seen a deluge of policy proposals being floated that, either directly or indirectly, would be damaging to the pu...

The Daily Telegraph reports that Tesco are contemplating using data collected via Clubcards to issue health messages to shoppers : Tesco c...

On the morning after the General Election result I posted this tweet, which I really should frame, as I fear it will become only too pro...

Over the past decade or so there have been endless discussions around the subject of trying to define “craft beer”. Was it a question of the...

After a successful introduction in Ireland, Draught Guinness 0.0 is now being rolled out in Great Britain . Both in canned and draught form,...

As I mentioned in my post about the pub garden smoking ban, the government are now also threatening the drinks industry with Minimum Unit Pr...

The past fourteen years of Tory-led governments have not been good ones for lifestyle freedom, and I have criticised their actions on many o...

I recently saw an interesting report that young drinkers have started to rediscover the delights of traditional pubs . I have to say I see v...

X/Twitter have recently improved the functionality of their Grok AI application, in particular enhancing its ability to produce images. The ...

Last month, I wrote a review of Historical Building Mythbusting by James Wright. In this book, the author debunks most of the familiar clai...

There are a number of pubs around that make claims to be the oldest, whether in their own city or county, in England or in the whole of the ...

My recent post about authenticity in lager reminded me of Devon-based Utopian Brewing , who specialise in making classic lager styles using...

The Co-op convenience store chain has come under fire for an advertising campaign urging people to watch the European football championship...

As with previous General Elections, I created a poll to gauge the sentiments of blog readers. The 2019 equivalent can be seen here . This ...

Last month, US beer writer Jeff Alworth ruffled a number of feathers in the British beer community with this controversial post on the subj...