The Pub Curmudgeon

Well, Budget Day has come and gone, and there has been the usual phenomenon of various unpalatable measures being trailed in advance, and ...

“Craft beer” started to become a widely-used concept in the UK around fifteen years ago. But ever since then it has been dogged by the issue...

Earlier this month, the Nursery Inn in Heaton Norris, Stockport, reopened after a £250,000 refurbishment by Hydes Brewery . This, which is ...

The Sunday Telegraph reports that pub licensees will be turned into “banter cops” under proposed reforms to workers’ rights. Provisions i...

In July of this year, Marston’s sold their remaining 40% stake in the Carlsberg-Marston’s brewing joint venture to Carlsberg, ending a long...

I recently spent a few days in Taunton in Somerset. While it’s an interesting place, and a good base for exploring the surrounding area, it ...

Plans for a new chippy on a North Wales holiday park have met with opposition from the local health board: Plans for a new chippy have com...

It had been widely rumoured, but it has now been officially confirmed that Humphrey Smith, long-standing Chairman of Samuel Smith’s Brewery,...

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...