Tandleman's Beer Blog

Kentish Town and its environs are pretty much unknown territory to me, but not so to E who worked there for a bit. Looking at the ads in No...

Here's a question. Anyone care to explain to me why (British) craft keg beer is nearly always sold at a more expensive price than cask,...

The day started promisingly, but late. I took a stroll back to the Dean Swift for another drop of Kernel Citra . The same friendly barman g...

That's me most of this week and this weekend, so I hope to get round a few of  the new wave of boozers, some of which I've been to b...

You can forget all your fancy continental lagers, your carefully brewed to exacting spec rheinheitsgebot German pilsners and helles, put the...

A little bird tells me that Greene King IPA will shortly replace Ruddles Best on their bars, presumably with the happy agreement of GK. I kn...

Yesterday morning I spent several hours doing some work for CAMRA. Not at all unusual that, for me and countless others. In my case it was...

There is much talked these days about the "new wave" of craft brewing and brewers and how keg beer isn't like the bad old days...

I was let loose in Leeds City Centre for three hours on Saturday while E had her hair done, so of course I used the time usefully to view th...

Apart from two visits to the Sheffield Tap (see below) I also thoroughly enjoyed my trip to the Hillsborough Hotel , handily placed on the t...

I grew up to the shrill of the steam whistle and the unmistakable chuff-chuffing as mighty engines took the strain a mere 30 or so feet from...

I've no time to comment really, as I'm off to Glasgow until Friday in a few minutes, but Molson Coors is certainly going for it ca...

There is much said in the blogosphere about the new wave of beer bars that are springing up here and there. I'm talking the like of the ...

What a momentous day yesterday was. Or wasn't. We had two announcements. First of all AB-InBev continued down their blind alley with the...

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,...