Curmudgeon - Beer & Pubs Archive - 2013

INDEX

January

Going to the Dogs - a pub that welcomes man’s best friend is likely to be welcoming to people too
Oh Yes You Are! - claims that anti-drink lobbyists are not being killjoys ring distinctly hollow

February

Dull or Shiny Spoons? - have Wetherspoon’s proved a blessing or a curse for British pubgoers?

March

Not What it Used to Be - the idea that familiar beers have become less distinctive may be more than just nostalgia
Sharing the Pain - the decline in beer sales is now hitting both on- and off-trades equally

April

Pricing Drinkers Back into the Pub? - it is delusional to believe that minimum alcohol pricing will do anything to help the pub trade

May

Twenty Years On - the first ten years weren’t bad, but the second have been disastrous for the British pub

June

Down Escalator - the success of the duty escalator campaign was due to the entire pub and brewing trade singing from the same hymnsheet

July

A Question of Balance - too many pubs fail to put a decent spread of beer types on the bar
Party Pooper - it’s a licensee’s right to bar admission to large parties to maintain his pub’s character

August

Pubbiness - you know it when you find it, but you can’t create it just by ticking boxes

September

A Pint of Two Halves - charging extra for halves is poor business practice that needlessly antagonises customers
The Customer is Always Rude - should staff be entitled to refuse service to ill-mannered customers?

October

Open and Shut Case - the liberalisation of licensing hours has often led to pubs opening shorter hours

November

The World Turned Upside Down - the distribution of cask beer in the UK now is a mirror image of that when CAMRA was formed

December

Reducing Strength, Reducing Choice - initiatives targeted at street drinkers may also hit responsible consumers
Building a Customer Base - the development of town-centre housing may lead to fewer pub customers, not more

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