Tandleman's Beer Blog

I'm stuck in less than optimum beery climes. The West of Scotland can clearly be deemed as such - no bloody arguments please - unless yo...

I've been busy with this and that including family illness, but of course beer has featured. A trip to Glasgow brought two bonuses. Fir...

It doesn't do to go rubbishing other people's choice of drinks does it? We are all more or less agreed on that one I think. Accentu...

Pete Brown wrote an emotional and excellent piece pleading for unity in all things beery a couple of days ago. It attracted quite a bit of ...

Yesterday I went along to the Northern Food and Bar show at Manchester Central (though I still find it easier to call it GMex). My local br...

What is? London is. There is a step change in what is happening in the capital. More choice and better choice, new bars opening, new brewer...

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...