A bit of a CV. Tandleman is a veteran beer lover, CAMRA Chairman and (local) activist, beer author, beer reviewer and pursuer of all things good in beer. He lives in the North West of England. Despite his CAMRA membership, he does not limit himself to cask conditioned beer, though he believes that cask conditioning, when done correctly and appropriately, brings a quality to beer that is hard to equal by any other kind of presentation. He is a strong supporter of Northern methods of beer dispense and avidly detests poorly presented beer and dislikes pasteurisation. He regularly visits Germany, has conducted corporate British and German beer tastings for CAMRA at the Great British Beer Festival where he has worked for years on Biere Sans Frontieres and was Deputy Organiser at CAMRA's very successful National Winter Ales Festival in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He admires good brewers wherever they are and has travelled extensively in pursuit of good beer to drink.
This blog mentions specifics; pubs and beer, good and bad. The opinions will be forthright, but you can always disagree, just don't be offended.
Brewday Approacheth!
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I brew more Saturdays than not at the moment. I think part of that has to
do with the fact that during the summer I really need to use the storage
room, th...
The Brown Bitter Company
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Imagine a bar dedicated to selling only brown British ales. It’s in central
London — let’s say Bloomsbury — and based in a renovated Victorian pub.
It’s no...
Happy days are here again
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I see today that the evil empire of Tesco have revived their highly
attractive multibuy beer offer, albeit now at £6 for 4 rather than £5. If
you’re just...
Physician heal thyself
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Barely a day goes past these days without the media bombarding us with
scare stories of binge drinking, out-of-control, revellers dragging the
country dow...
The backpacker factor
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It's a few years since I last went beering in Asia. I must confess,
however, that I've never come home hankering after any particular beer I've
tried there...
FABPOW! Sausage Carbonara and Avery Brown Dredge
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Atypical Saturday morning is waking up and spending the next three-or-four
hourssplit between writing, exercising and looking at every recipe book I
o...
Do we live in a Western Free Country?
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In my last post I criticised The Portman Group for seeming to side with the
Government's propaganda regarding the use of so called binge drinking as an
exc...
Poll taxing the beer drinker
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At the CAMRA national AGM in Cardiff in 2008, I went to a discussion group
about the neo-prohibitionists. Who? The people who, flushed by their
success i...
Exciting Developments on the West Kent Brewing Scene
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There's been a lot of exciting new developments on the *West Kent* brewing
scene over the last 18 months or so. I had other concerns during this time
and ...
Its a hop - not an aftershave!
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This week another new hop has come to my attention, this time not from any
of the traditional hop growing regions but from France, or to be more
precise, f...
Please find enclosed herein.....
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Hi Zak,
Please find enclosed herein a bottle of Bear Republic "Racer 5" IPA.
Many months ago, after I posted on the Wine Pages forum, you helped me find
g...
Odessa in London
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Almost a year ago now I went down to Otley Brewing in South Wales and did a
brew with them. Unlike many collaborative brews, they made me come up with
the...
Nip this prohibitionist nonsense in the bud
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Right, this is important. We are facing a potential alcohol ban on trains
in Scotland. It is only a bit of flag-waving at the moment, but it needs a
good h...
Beer is for life and not just for Christmas
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The great thing about being known as an ale fan is that when it comes to
birthdays and Christmas people thankfully plump for the obvious and buy me
beer. ...
The End
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The future
All good things come to and end. Indeed all crap things come to an end too.
It started from reading beer blogs. The curiosity was mild at first ...
Santa’s blotto
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Hitting the booze but learning disgusting. Night on Guinness gave me head
like a quarry, single malts and Champagne left me mellow. Is this a last
hoorah f...
The last post
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I spent the New Year in Prague with my beloved. Regular readers will know that I lived and worked there for a while three years before I started this blog. I...
2 years ago
Contact and General Information
Who is Tandleman?
Read my information and links and then decide for yourself. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes.
Email:
If you wish to email me you can do so by using this address: tandleman[at]yahoo.co.uk
Comments:
These are the life blood of any blog. Please feel free to comment. I do not practice censorship if you stick to the point, but personal insults are frowned upon and may result in deletion. Anonymous entries may have the piss taken out of them or be deleted.
Reviews:
Beer samples are welcome, but I cannot guarantee a good review. You, the brewer, on the other hand can.
Adverts:
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2 comments:
Old enough to remember "Getting Blitzed with Blatz". Cooking Lager would be proud.
I think its like old is gold..i am tingling behind.
Cv examples
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