Articles...
Nov 29 2008
Pubs have been especially vulnerable during this time and the sight of so many lying derelict is enough to bring a lump to the throat of this column....
Nov 15 2008
WITH the credit crunch bean counters baying, the Pub Column took a sentimental journey this week....
Oct 18 2008
MANY drinkers here associate American beer with that insipid gnat’s pee of a pint, Budweiser. Much favoured by bottle swigging unsavvy, chavvy, lightweights, its standing among the cognoscenti plummeted to a new low in the 1990s when its Yankee bully boy brewers tried to prevent Czech company Budvar from using the name Budweiser on their own long- established and far superior ale. ...
Sep 27 2008
A CLASSIC slice of Aussie pop from 1966 was Friday On Mind, by The Easybeats. A hedonistic paean to breaking free from workplace drudgery and hitting the town with your bird (Sheila, surely? – Sir Les Patterson), the Pub Column occasionally hears its chorus joyously ringing through his own mind after escaping the neon dungeon of Castle Greyskull to celebrate the coming weekend with a beer or three....
Sep 20 2008
WHO would have thought that so much pleasure could be gained from the land of the dead?...
Sep 13 2008
THE Pub Column was listening – by accident, it must be said – to one of those local late night phone-in shows last weekend when a selection of misery-moos rang to say what an eight-legged waste of money La Machine was....
Aug 9 2008
THE administrators at Liverpool brewer Cains are working closely with former owners the Dusanj brothers as they seek a new owner for the business....
Aug 2 2008
THE rise of Cains brewery came in tandem with an upturn in its home city’s own fortunes....
Aug 2 2008
IN CLICHED terms, it would be entirely appropriate to have exclaimed: “Eureka! We’ve found it!” and maybe splashed a few pints around to mirror Archemedes’ excitement about water displacement....
Jul 12 2008
ONCE in a while, the Pub Column stumbles on an alehouse with which it immediately falls in love, a traditional British local where good ale and conversation are the watch words....
