Tandleman's Beer Blog

Just thought I'd let you know that the IoM smoking ban came in today. Hooray! I am not sure about the other Crown Dependencies, but only...

Two seemingly contradictory articles caught my eye this morning. In one, the Czech On Line Newspaper the Prague Daily Monitor reports that ...

Yesterday we had a National Winter Ales Meeting followed by the party for CAMRA staff that had worked at this year's event. The meeting ...

Tyson rants on about his JDW in Bury being bad. He obviously knows too little about Middleton's Harbord Harbord , which can be guarante...

I decided that this being Day One of the much trumpeted Wetherspoon's "International Real Ale Festival" that I'd do my sho...

Another silly spokesman for the increasingly out of touch Association of Chief Police Officers has emerged blinking into the light to tell u...

It seems that Mr Darling's recent shenanigans with duty increases have got on the wick of the pub trade more than somewhat. Following ha...

A recent "put down" post on another blog from a professional beer writer to a beer blogger set me thinking. I wonder sometimes if ...

Awaking from a major snoring competition to a beautiful Hanseatic day, we decided after breakfast a walk was needed. Where to? the Reeperbah...

After dumping our bags in our Altona Hotel, we needed a beer to wash away the travel dust. So out we went, round the corner and saw in the n...

I'm off to Germany for a couple of nights. Hamburg is the destination and the first German city I ever visited about 20 years ago. I...

I haven't really written much about Pictish Brewery of Rochdale , but I will sometime soon. Those in the know are already aware that it...

And what a one it was. I tried a pint in the Horseshoe Bar on my way to the station. This time the Caley beers were augmented by two guests,...

This was the slogan employed years ago to attract people to Glasgow and change its image. Yesterday it applied to my beery wanderings. Under...

I am at my mother's at the moment. I arrived to a wet and blustery Glasgow Central station and after nearly four hours on the train, I ...