Tandleman's Beer Blog

I haven't read much about this event in blogs and was expecting the Manchester bloggerati to save me a job, but looks like I'll n...

We often see the Health Lobby (whoever they may be) producing blood curdling statistics about alcohol and how it is killing us all.  The Org...

Among the stuff kindly sent to me last night and referred to here , I was sent this poster of the Saddleworth Beer Festival.1985  Hand desi...

Boak and Bailey have an interesting article on the issue of the CAMRA view of lager many years ago. They are right to point out at the sta...

We are always being told by the anti drink lobby of  "alcohol fuelled violence", but I have remarked here and in comments hither ...

Despite having been to Brussels quite a few times, I've never been to Cantillon, mostly because E hadn't fancied going. She doesn...

I was in Belgium at the weekend. Brussels to be precise. Belgium is a nice place with nice Belgian people. They speak better French in Brus...

Like my good friend Jeff , I've been busy lately, hence the silence.  I'm off to London in a few minutes, but I just thought I'...

It's nearly that time of year again where we present some beers to the general public at the 27th Oldham Beer Festival. I've been ...

One last post about Nottingham and the CAMRA Members Weekend, this time about that often overlooked subject beer and pubs. Nottingham is ...

By way of either a little light relief or as education, the guest speaker spot at the CAMRA's Annual Conference is eagerly awaited by m...

Well that was a more interesting weekend than I thought.  The recent CAMRA Members Weekend was much more far reaching than I predicted it m...

Tomorrow I'm off to Nottingham for the CAMRA Members Weekend and AGM.  I'm quite looking forward to it, especially as I've lai...

The good old Morning Advertiser has this piece here which explains that following an HMRC ruling about "yields" per barrel, they...

As someone that has been actively involved in beer since 1974,  I reckon I have a fairly broad view of things in the UK beer world. I hav...