Tandleman's Beer Blog: Wikio

Friday, 2 October 2009

Latest Wikio Rankings Exclusively Announced

On about the third time of trying to arrange it, the very nice Wikio Blog Rating people and me have finally managed to sort out me hosting the latest blog rankings for the Wine and Beer category.

So I can reveal that the table for October is as follows:

1	Pete Brown's Blog (=)
2	Brew Dog Blog ()
3	Pencil & Spoon (-1)
4	Tandleman's Beer Blog (+2)
5	Spittoon (-2)
6	Stonch's Beer Blog (-2)
7	Brew Wales (-2)
8	Woolpack Dave's beer and stuff blog (+6)
9	The Beer Nut (-2)
10	The Pub Curmudgeon (+13)
11	Bibendum Wine (-3)
12	The Bitten Bullet (+12)
13	Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog (+5)
14	Jamie goode's wine blog (-5)
15	The Wine Conversation (-5)
16	Called to the bar (-3)
17	`It's just the beer talking` ? Jeff Pickthall's Blog (-2)
18	Pubology (-6)
19	Impy Malting (-8)
20	The Good Stuff (+6)

Ranking by Wikio

Naturally I am pleased that I have crept up two places to fourth, so I'll need to change my badge as soon as it is available on line. Thanks to everyone who reads my blog, links to it and comments on it. I'm now breathing down the neck of the leaders, but this is a fickle game, so who knows next month? Pete Brown still leads the field - well done Pete - and a surprise entry to me at least is Brew Dog, who have shot straight in at number two.Congratulations to all my fellow bloggers that have done well this month, particularly Woolpack Dave, the Bitten Bullet and Curmudgeon, who have shot up the rankings.

Given that beers blogs occupy the vast majority of the top 20, maybe Wikio should rename the category Beer and Wine?

Welcome

A bit of a CV. Tandleman is a veteran beer lover, local CAMRA Chairman and activist, beer writer, beer reviewer and pursuer of all things good in beer. He lives in the North West of England and London. 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, 2011 and 2012 and at the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival from 2013 to date. He admires good brewers wherever they are and has travelled extensively in pursuit of good beer to drink. He also judges beer at both the International Beer Challenge and the World Beer Awards.

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. Comments from those mentioned are particularly welcome and a right of reply is hereby offered.