Tandleman's Beer Blog

No visit to the West Midlands is complete without a visit to Ma Pardoes , or, as it is really called, the Old Swan Inn .  Set on a busy mai...

In Stourbridge for two nights, we stayed in the recently built - within the last two or three years that is - Premier Inn. This proved to b...

The home of Batham's Brewery , officially the Vine , but known by many by its alternative name as above,  is a fine place indeed.  The ...

I mentioned as a footnote in my latest blog that we had visited the Beacon Hotel in Sedgley on our recent Black Country trip. This pub is ...

Are snacks in pubs a good thing? I'd say so, but in the never ending search for margin and profit - just look at the good old Morning A...