Tandleman's Beer Blog

Well it had to happen didn't it? "What?" I hear you ask? A good, old fashioned, clean, bright, Sam's pub with no oddball...

It isn't often I have three new things, one after the other, to report, but I have this time.  So, let's get on with it. Up first...

One thing that can generally be said about Sam Smith's pubs is that while they are often rather bare looking, they are always spick and...

There's a tendency among, shall we call them for talking's sake, "new wave" brewers to push the envelope, discard the tri...

Perhaps the oddest of Sam Smith's pubs is its take-off of a German local pub, uprooted it seems, in looks if nothing else, from Garmisc...

Add caption Well that's another Oldham Beer Festival over and it's time to reflect on a few things beerwise.  Firstly it was a...

This on the face of it, located as it is on the corner of a main road,  an awkwardly situated pub if you approach it, as most do, going to ...

The Eagle is rather an imposing building and viewed from the outside, all lit up, it looked rather fetching as I trudged towards it in the...

It isn't often I get invited to a "do" at a foreign embassy or indeed a non foreign one, so when the Embassy of Ireland inv...

With many pubs already facing difficult trading conditions, more misery is being heaped on the pub trade with huge rises in the amount of b...

What has Admiral Lord Nelson got to do with Rochdale? Nothing it seems, other than I suppose being a national hero a long time ago.  So the...

One of the things you can do on the background system to CAMRA's WhatPub , if you have the right permissions, is download all the data ...

OK. That's Barr's Irn Bru , but when it comes to pilsner style lager, Pilsner Urquell is the one that begat all the others.  It ha...

I often look at old blog posts to see what I was writing about years ago. A sort of  "On this day..." kind of thing. On this da...

Is it a sign of the times that London’s latest craft brewery is to focus entirely on low and no alcohol beer?   Nirvana Brewery Co , is a n...