Pub Curmudgeon 🏴
Traditional beer and pubs. Pub cats. Dislikes banning things, especially smoking in pubs. Also see: x.com/oldmudgie
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- New blogpost – the whole swathe of mass-market 3.4% kegs are a sorry bunch of forgettable, lacklustre brews that inspire zero enthusiasm. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/11/wate...
- New blogpost - once a community have bought their local pub, they need to find a way to make it a viable business in the long term. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/11/care...
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- New blogpost - the ban on free drink refills has caused commentators to wake up and smell the coffee about lifestyle restrictions. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/10/real...
- Landlords brand Starmer’s late night pub plan a ‘waste of time’ (free to read) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/cf62abd...
- New blogpost - does cask beer suffer from a lack of visibility in the pub? pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/10/out-...
- New blogpost - a journey into Middle England, in the shape of Atherstone, Warwickshire: Part 2. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-jo...
- New blogpost - a journey into Middle England, in the shape of Atherstone, Warwickshire. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-jo...
- I know it's a different society and brewing culture, but it would be nice if we in the UK had a tradition where a wide range of breweries released a special beer in a specific style at a particular time of year along the lines of Oktoberfest.
- Liverpool has the best pubs of any English city - and it’s not even close (free to read) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9379bb9...
- New blogpost - whisper it softly, but I really don’t find Wetherspoon’s congenial places just to go for a drink. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/09/sett...
- If you didn't like Charlie Kirk, that's your right. If you're gloating over his death, you're beneath contempt.
- Pubs are in a financial death spiral (non paywall link) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c94852c...
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- New blogpost – is it really the case that the long-term decline of the pub trade is mostly due to pubs being poorly run? pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/09/only...
- Good to see Sam Smith’s Bird in Hand at Mobberley open again after six years. Apparently the brewery only supplied one cask of Bitter, which sold out on the opening day yesterday. Decent number of customers in 🍻
- New blogpost – nobody should imagine that cutting the drink-drive limit wouldn’t have a significant detrimental effect on the pub trade. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/08/limi...
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- New blogpost - pubs that open short and erratic hours shouldn't really be surprised that they have no customers. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/08/if-y...
- The village pub I run is being taxed to death, by the licensee of the Wonston Arms, Hampshire. Link free to read. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f31f4db...
- The ‘real’ drinking pubs serving £5 pints and no fancy food – and thriving www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1037610...
- New blogpost – reviving Boddingtons Cask Bitter represents a significant declaration of faith in the cask market by one of the international brewers. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/07/fres...
- "The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult before accessing certain features on Bluesky, like adult content and direct messaging." Ah well, not doing that, so that's an end to DM's on here.
- New blogpost – what are the reasons behind the long-term decline in cask ale sales, and can anything be done to reverse it? pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
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- Cask ale volumes down by 7% over 12 months, and it now accounts for only 8% of beer sold in pubs. britishbeerbreaks.substack.com/p/is-cask-be...
- Team bonding exercise.
- The Castle Hotel, Halton, Cheshire in the 1950s. Still open as a pub.
- New blogpost – it comes across as something of a sick joke to expect pubs to display beermats celebrating a swingeing increase in their costs. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/06/addi...
- The Laurieston Bar, Glasgow. If only more pubs could look like this ☺️🍻
- New blogpost – imagining that the pub landscape can be transformed into one of free-of-tie independent freeholders is a “three acres and a cow” fantasy. pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/05/ties...
- Pub numbers down by over 15,000 in the past 25 years ☹️ Public Health will chalk this up as a win, of course. www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...
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