Tandleman's Beer Blog

One of the things I do like is travelling by train. I come from a railway family and somehow it really is in the blood. Short or long, I li...

Those of us who do their drinking in pubs, rather than bars or at home, have a cross to bear and it is one I am always banging on about. It...

I think it fair to say that I was as surprised as anyone by the announcements that Charles Wells had decided to sell the majority of its...

It is a decent 20 minutes walk from the excellent Laurieston Bar (see below) to Macgregors Pie and Ale Howff , the next recommendation fr...

Following a recommendation by @robsterowski I thought it was about time I visited the Laurieston Bar in the South  Side of Glasgow. He is ...

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...