Tandleman's Beer Blog

It's been a funny old week on t'internet beerwise.  The old cask versus keg argument was set alight once more by some offensive ad ...

That awkward sod Cooking Lager is pretty good at reminding us of the futility and foolishness of pub going and cask ale worship. Both too d...

I have a lot of sympathy for my CAMRA colleagues in the South West of Scotland. Real ale is rather thin on the ground around these parts an...

The controversy over hazy/cloudy/murky beer continues apace.  Twitter is full of photographic examples of beer which is so densely cloudy...

The Great British Beer Festival - GBBF for short - is over and once again there is reflection on how it was and indeed how it should be...

I was in Scotland week before last and as usual, in the land of Tennents Lager, was wary about choosing cask beer where there was any. My e...

When I met my oldest friend Mike for a few pints, I made it my mission to take him to entirely new (to him) pubs.  As we met at Piccadilly ...

Sarajevo had it bad during the last war. When they say "last war" in Bosnia, they don't mean World War 2, but the civil war w...

After my less that satisfactory drinking experience written about here , we sought some scenery. You can't go to Dubrovnik without sitt...

It isn't often - if ever - that I post a press release, more or less as intact, but this needs to be done.  Those of us lucky enough to...

Bosnia was reassuringly cheap, but what about Dubrovnik? Dubrovnik, just over the Bosnia-Herzegovina border  is one impressive place.  Well ...

On Saturday I fancied watching the football. OK I dreaded watching the football as it was Scotland v England, but I still wanted to see it....

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...