Tandleman's Beer Blog

Now that the two main traumas of January (NWAF and GBG Selection Meeting) are behind me and my nerves are returning to a more settled state,...

A few German stats for you to start the week off. I know it is lazy blogging, but I couldn't be bothered tarting this up too much. M...

Following on from my rather depressing report about the pub trade I read this in the Morning Advertiser. Here is a man that is running a p...

The latest beer sales figures make grim reading as volumes, particularly in the on trade continue to decline. It is a horrible picture. Of c...

There's nane that's blest of human kind But the cheerful and the gay, man. Here's a bottle and an honest friend! What wad ye wis...

The end comes suddenly, but like a resinous, hoppy beer, it finishes long. I'll be back there today and maybe after I've had a rest ...

Sorry for the virtual silence for the last week or so, but I've been organising a big fuck off sized beer festival. Well deputy organis...

After meeting the Chairman of the CAMRA Review Group yesterday we needed a little refreshment, so nipped into the Bank (Nicolsons) for some...

It used to be common practise to filter overspilled beer - beer from the drip tray or from the pipes when cleaning - back into the cask. Th...

One thing about beer festivals is that once it is all set up, it tends to flow fairly smoothly. Not so in the period beforehand . It has be...

Of course you do. Everyone likes a really good do, so why the heck not? There will be beer too. Lots of it. There will be 254 cask ales at ...

So the Gummint is hastening along the introduction of the two thirds of a pint measure. Some will welcome this, but for me it is somewhat o...

The recent increase in duty and VAT has caused howls of anguish in many circles and predictions of meltdown in the on trade. True it means t...

After a lot of buggering about on New Year's Eve due to sick visiting, we finally made it to the pub at around half past three. We had ...

Well that's nearly it. 2010 has gone bar the shouting, though there won't be much of that from me. By half past midnight the New Yea...