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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: May 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Lilacs out of the Dead Land. Beer duty cuts have driven a striking recovery in the pub trade, but it’s by no means universal. And our local family brewers have been spending large sums on revamping pubs such as the Baker’s Vaults, Platform 5 and the Griffin in Heald Green. There’s certainly a new sense of confidence in the air. Pubs are serving food on anything but plates, no matter how ludicrous. Column which appea...

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: April 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Not Fit to be Out. Breath-testing clubbers could easily set a precedent for ordinary pubgoers. Don’t Drink and Walk. Some countries are even considering alcohol limits for pedestrians. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is a record of the monthly Curmudgeon. Column which appears in Opening Times. The magazine of the Stockport and South Manchester Branch of CAMRA. The Campaign for Real Ale. Campaign for Real Pubs.

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: March 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Goodbye to the 19th Hole. Nobody should delude themselves that cutting the drink-drive limit wouldn’t lead to wholesale pub closures. Variety Isn’t Everything. Drinkers may prefer continuity over constant change. THE LATEST version of Pete Brown’s Cask Report was published last autumn, and again it recorded a story of success in a declining market, with cask beer continuing to gain absolute volume, not just ma...

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: August 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Coffee shops aren’t direct competitors to pubs, even if they sell alcohol. At the Sign of the Crossed Legs. Micro-pubs should not mean micro-facilities. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is a record of the monthly Curmudgeon. Column which appears in Opening Times. The magazine of the Stockport and South Manchester Branch of CAMRA. The Campaign for Real Ale. Please feel free to leave a comment. Lost Pubs Of Bolton.

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: June 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. A Little of What You Fancy. Moderate alcohol consumption really is better for your health than total abstention. 8221; when offering someone a drink. The Holy Grail for the anti-drink lobby is to find conclusive evidence that any amount of alcohol consumption is detrimental to health. But, unfortunately for them, the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence points in the opposite direction, and those who suppo...

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: November 2014

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. It’s Kicking off Again. Pubs are starting to realise that TV football may not be the money-spinner they thought. Nobody asks for piped music in pubs, yet still they play it. 1 November 2014 at 08:57. Occasionally though a couple of my friends need an excuse to go to the pub. Invariably we hardly watch the game and just chat, but they might not have gone had their not been a reason. I personally dont need an ...As fo...

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: September 2014

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Faith in the Future. New-build dining pubs reflect confidence in the future of the British pub trade. But applying the formula to existing pubs may seem insensitive and ill-considered. 5 September 2014 at 02:24. Looking foward for this situation to gets better soon. Pub tradition is in the beer lovers souls. Cheers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog is a record of the monthly Curmudgeon. Info AT pubcurmu...

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: October 2014

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Let’s hope the award given to Taylor’s Boltmaker leads to a revival of “ordinary bitter”. Scattered in the Plough. Scatter cushions are a pointless, fussy attempt to make pubs seem more “female-friendly”. Where do all these peculiar pub trends come from? 1 October 2014 at 11:19. Dear Mr John Clarke, Editor of this tosh,. How can your magazine claim to campaign for the Great British Pub whilst containing these ill-in...

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: January 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. A “cask-strength” bottled beer is not at all the same as a “cask-strength” whisky. No Pub for Old Men. If pubs want to live up to the claim of being community hubs they need to be more welcoming to older male customers. Feel free to leave a comment. Please note that, to deter spammers, comments are moderated on all posts over three months old. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Column which appears in Opening Times.

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns: March 2015

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Curmudgeon's "Opening Times" Columns. Ranting monthly about pubs and beer since May 1993. Goodbye to the 19th Hole. Nobody should delude themselves that cutting the drink-drive limit wouldn’t lead to wholesale pub closures. Variety Isn’t Everything. Drinkers may prefer continuity over constant change. THE LATEST version of Pete Brown’s Cask Report was published last autumn, and again it recorded a story of success in a declining market, with cask beer continuing to gain absolute volume, not just ma...