Tandleman's Beer Blog

The news that Heineken is buying most of the tied pub estate of Punch Taverns has been written about on one hand as a great and confident...

Frankfurt isn't exactly known as a beer paradise. It has a few brew-pubs of no distinction and actually, in the centre at least, not th...

When it comes to modern day mild, plenty it seems.  Many brewers of mild have changed the name of the product to something considered more ...

No, I haven't stopped blogging. It just seems like it. It is over three weeks since I did, but largely this is because CAMRA life has i...

Pub Curmudgeon is often banging on about pubs behaving like restaurants and instead of treating food as a supplement to drinking, they rese...

Don't drink beer essentially. Apart from the fact that it is cripplingly expensive, it is piss poor. Rome is the home of Peroni and th...

I'm not quite finished with Amsterdam. I'd always wanted to go to Brouwerij 't IJ after an abortive attempt to do so many year...

I've been away, so haven't got round to writing this up. I went along to IndymanBeerCon on the trade day and had rather a good tim...

It is always good to try the local bars when abroad.  It is there you get the feel for a place, though if course it can be a matter of pot ...

In early Autumn sunshine, Amsterdam is quite delightful. From our hotel near the rather grand Concertgebouw it was a nice stroll across the...

A few weeks ago I was in London having a few pints with @erlangernick. I wrote about some of it here . For our last beers, I took him to on...

Readers of this blog will know I can be a bit scathing about quality of cask beer in London. I don't do so lightly as after all it is e...

Out in Manchester the other day with my oldest friend, our first pint was in Sam's Chop House . There was a middle of the road selectio...

Bank Holiday Monday, being uncharacteristically warm and sunny, E suggested we walk from our house down to the Rose of Lancaster , a Lees p...

Readers of this blog and others will know that there is, knocking about and turning up like a bad smell, an irksome commentator called ...