The Pub Curmudgeon

Well-known beer writer Pete Brown has been given a weekly column on beer and pubs in the Sunday Times magazine. He says this will be the on...

From 1 April 2025, a new tax on the packaging of a wide range of consumer goods will be introduced, known as Extended Producer Responsibilit...

The Daily Star has recently posed the question of whether craft beer is dead in the UK. This is actually a considerably more informative a...

The weight loss drug Semaglutide, variously marketed as Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and Rybelsus, has been much in the headlines recently. Man...

On Christmas Eve, I walked to my local pub at lunchtime for a couple of pints. It wasn’t packed, but there was a decent scattering of people...

A couple of recent press articles make pretty grim reading for the pub trade. The Guardian reports that the number of pubs in Britain has f...

The Daily Telegraph reports on yet another threat to pubs from the present government: Pubs could be under threat after the Government sc...

Well, another year draws to a close, which has been very eventful both in the sphere of beer and pubs and the wider world. The idea that we ...

The government have announced that they are going to trial a scheme to allow people to use a form of digital ID held on smartphones for age...

As a key plank of their strategy to combat child obesity, the government have announced restrictions on the advertising of so-called “unhea...

Hard on the heels of the announcement of the closure of their Wolverhampton brewery , Carlsberg-Marston’s have informed us of their plans to...

The philosopher George Santayana is reputed to have said “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” . And it looks like ...

A shock report in the Guardian highlights claims of the immense cost to the British economy of health problems resulting from poor diets. ...

Last Autumn, there was a bout of excitement on Twitter over the appearance of the Kalea Wiesn-Tragerl ten-pack of Bavarian festival beers a...

A central London branch of the O’Neill’s chain has been in the news for imposing a surcharge on drinks prices after 10 pm. The Soho branc...