Tandleman's Beer Blog

It's a rather pretty place Haarlem. There are no chain stores here, or at least very few. Many of the shops are artisanal in some way, ...

I recently did a little poll for a bit of fun, but of course it had, underneath it, a serious point. Here's the result: Choose one: ...

I've been busy today editing our local CAMRA magazine, More Beer , but Twitter has caught my eye in between times. Firstly a spat thi...

Yesterday there was a Twitter post that caught my attention. It referred to an opinion piece in Imbibe Magazine by Jessica Mason in which...

Picture the scene. You park your car up and set off up an unmade farm track which looks as though it has recently undergone an artillery bo...

It has been a very quiet year for the blog for many reasons. I have had the passing of my mother to contend with, been very busy with beery...

I 've been neglecting this for a bit now, largely because I'm to to my eyes in the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival f or which I...

It was the coldest night of the winter so far when E and I made the half hour walk from our flat in E1, across Tower Bridge, at this time o...

Readers will be aware that like a sinner repented, Cloudwater Brewery has returned to the cask fold after a period in the keg wildernes...

I was in Scotland last week to see off my late mother's flat - you know - help my sister with all the  remaining bits and pieces  and d...

It is an opinion that some won't agree with - controversial maybe - but I've usually found craft beer bars a bit samey.  All shiny ...

Three things struck me last week, two of which were writings about beer and the other, more superficially, but much more satisfying - well ...

Following on from the recent cutting articles by Martyn Cornell and Pub Curmudgeon about poor quality cask, I had the opportunity to run ...

Last week two things in the beery firmament really caught my attention. Firstly there was the news that Dave Bailey's Hardknott Bre...

According to the blurb Mercato Metropolitano is a "Community based Food retailer with an Italian soul that promotes sustainability, c...