Tandleman's Beer Blog

My local is getting a new landlady. The current incumbent has given it a good shot, but has decided it isn't for her. We've known f...

It is one of the finer things that Wetherspoons do. Naming their pubs after local landmarks, historical figures and other such things that i...

Port St Beer House is one of these places that you find the trendy young things of Manchester.  But the neatly trimmed beards - more or less...

In case you hadn't noticed, I am all in favour of Family Brewers stepping outside their comfort zone and doing something different. We ...

That last one was it. If you believe my dashboard in Blogger. If you add up the posts on the left hand side though, it is 945. I don't...

Have I mentioned this before? I can't remember, but JW Lees have available to all their pubs and the free trade, rather a good, genuine...

In our quiz league we visit a few clubs. These are by and large a bastion of smoothflow beer and this often brings a chance to spot some un...

My morning walk in Alkrington Woods was punctuated, not this time by the usual avoidance of dog shit, but the poignant sight along my route,...

Convinced that minimum pricing works, or that increasing prices will sort out the binge drinkers? Watch this and think again. Even if you ...

I was insired by Kristy MacCreadie - as I so often am - to contribute this piece to the session, this time hosted here by Nate Dawg. It i...

"Blog rankings don't matter. Who looks at them or believes in them anyway?" "Nobody with any sense at all worries about t...

One of my local pubs has a Cask Marque plaque outside it. "Nothing unusual in that" I suppose you'll be thinking. But wait a...

The lot of a CAMRA Chairman isn't always a happy one. Relentless hours of voluntary work aren't that much fun you know, but occasion...

The post preceding this and some comments on Boak and Bailey's blog have mentioned stale keg beers. It got me wondering. Now I know a ...

You know how it is. The pint you have just ordered doesn't seem quite the same, or as good as your previous one from the same handpump. ...