Bring on the Micropub

So Punch Taverns is to dump 2,200 of its pubs. It says that there is 'no future in the traditional drinks led pub'. Well, not the way Punch runs them, there isn't. Looking back on my youth, when there seemed to be a pub every thirty feet or so, the one thing most of them had in common was their size; few of them were much larger than the average living room. And the beer was normally cheap enough to please the customers and make a profit for the licensee. So  I think that, for the British boozer, the battle cry has to be 'Back to the Future'. Make 'em smaller, cheaper, and offering a shorter range of products. Have pubs specialising in lager, pubs specialising in wine, and so on.
  Slowly, the change is already coming. In my own home town of Wolverhampton we have one pub in a back alley which the owner built himself out of breeze blocks. It is tiny, but always packed.
  A few weeks ago there was an excellent article on the subject in The Mail. Read it and ponder.