Tandleman's Beer Blog

I see Tyson is back. Hooray!

Lees, the district of Oldham, not the brewer, is 700 feet above sea level and is a bloody chilly place , believe me. Two overcoats colder t...

They say if you give a monkey a typewriter and leave it to it, sooner or later a coherent sentence will be produced. Whether the monkey wou...

I am not the biggest fan of Greene King though I respect them as Britain's biggest producer of cask ale, but they have just done somethi...

Cold, rainy weather resulted in lower beer sales at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Six million visitors drank only 6.6 million litres,...

On a rare Sunday lunch out, I perused the bar at the Royal Toby near Rochdale for inspiration. They used to serve Draught Bass here until ...

I see that the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) are proposing in a consultation document that two third of a pint measures b...

It isn't that usual for me to spend a day drinking with the legendary Beer Hound, Tyson, late of this parish, but yesterday, in a persi...

There is a long and interesting piece, titled as above on the plight of pubs in the Guardian today. Read it here

Way back in December last year, I mentioned I had CAMRA business at Sam Smith's Yew Tree , just outside Rochdale. A committee meeting to...

I complained about pubs being empty the other day. Not so the Marble Arch . When I picked E up off the train, we popped in for one, but wer...

The Beautiful Beer Awards scheme was launched in March 2006, to recognise and reward pubs who deliver ‘excellence in beer’. To gain an award...

Long established Regional Brewer Everards of Leicester has picked up three awards from SIBA , the Society of Independent Brewers , the most...

Quite a few years ago, I visited and toured the Duvel Brewery in Moortgat, In the hospitality suite afterwards, among the beers offered, was...

All of JW Lees current range of beers can be seen in this photo. Certainly makes me thirsty! The bitter has a flash to denote its status as...