Tandleman's Beer Blog

One of our Sunday table from the Tandle Hill Tavern has died. We knew it was coming and so did he.  Yesterday after his funeral we met, not ...

I'm not a drinker of own brand beers really. I kind of think they are likely to be not very good with one or two exceptions.  These exc...

It was the CAMRA ROB fortieth birthday bash (yet another) last night. This time it was a curry - a ruby for a ruby. Geddit? We assembled fo...

I read in Jeff Bell's blog that Kernel are ceasing to be part of the Bermonsey Beer Mile, as they cannot cope with the hordes that des...

I was out in Manchester on Saturday night. Unusual for me.  An American mate of mine was in town with his girlfriend, so I made my way acros...

Readers will probably know I don't like murky beer and since Rob Pickering first coined the term, I've become an avid fan of the de...

Manchester Beer and Cider Festival 2016 will be at the amazing venue of Manchester Central .  It's been a long haul but after many mont...

While beer may play an increasing part in the lives of the urbanites of large Spanish cities, in the countryside it is more utilitarian tha...

No, not a run-down of bloggers and their foibles- I'll save that until another time - but a visit, on Saturday evening,  to my Branch a...

After a lovely walk in the sunshine through some of my childhood haunts including Levengrove Park, which is more or less unchanged since I ...

You don't encounter Draught Bass that often these days in my experience. I know of a couple of places where it is sold, but I wouldn...

It isn't often that I disagree with the Beer Nut when he describes and recommends a beer, above all because I rate his beer tasting no...

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...