Tandleman's Beer Blog

I mentioned a little while ago, that we (CAMRA Rochdale, Oldham and Bury) were visiting JW Lees Brewery as their guests, not to tour the ...

Well Folks, put down that glass of Birra Obscura and pin back your lugholes.  This is the feet on the ground, 'Golden Pint Awards. N...

Most - the huge 90% plus majority of beer is sold by big brewers.  That's a fact.  When people slag off big brewers, they are, by and l...

For a change on Thursday I phoned my mate Colin and suggested that most old fashioned of things, a tea time pint. We chose the Ship Inn bec...

Over the last few decades and longer, Britain has lost many of its famous breweries and beers and this book documents a few of them, not so...

Are you passionate about beer? Does it consume your every waking moment,or is it just a drink that you enjoy with enthusiasm, while kee...

Five years ago I was remarking in my blog about the high cost of of a bottled beer in the Marble Arch. I wrote "Also available for pur...

Yesterday's Sunday Times had a substantial piece by Dominic Lawson about minimum pricing of alcohol.  He concluded, correctly, that ...

I was in Dumbarton last week to see my mother. One of the first bits of news she gave me was that Wetherspoons are likely to open a pub in...

 I have always thought that the essence of blogging - beer blogging -is not only opinion, but the relating and contextualising of experienc...

This will appear tomorrow. 1000 posts in five years. That's a lot of posts. Nearly 200 a year. Nearly five a week - well a five day we...

The new landlord is ensconced and his first job has been to fill the oil tank.  For the first time in months (or is it years?) the heating i...

I read this today. Guinness launches holiday beer Guinness Generous Ale    Ireland-based beermaker Guinness has unveiled a holid...

I received a very glamorous bottle of beer from Black Sheep Brewery last week.  It is a fancy 10% abv effort, celebrating 20 years of the c...

I don't bother that much with history in this blog. You have to be a particularly pernickity person that likes facts and exactitude. I...