Tandleman's Beer Blog

There is a sense of grim foreboding that you can palpably sense in pubs at the moment. Having lurched back into business - after a fashion -...

No sooner do we have one new pub opening in my area, but then we have another. Different in scale and target audience to Hogarths in Rochda...

Given that our summer holidays are put on the back burner - assuming they are even on the cooker - I decided some time ago to go and see my...

Pubs are thought in many quarters to be pretty much unmitigated doom and gloom at the moment and although there are some chinks of light, w...

Pubs don't have it easy at all these days. Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on most, if not all pubs. Many have not yet opened ...

Reading this lovely post by Retired Martin about one of my favourite pubs in the UK, the Coalbrookdale Inn in, well Coalbrookdale, just u...

It is true. That doyen of the cheap pint, Samuel Smith of Tadcaster has decided to get out of that particular game, with prices rises all ...

So, the Chancellor, having discovered the Magic Money Tree, gave it another shake yesterday. I'll pass on some of the stuff, but what d...

Well how was it for you? The grand re-opening of pubs I mean. I couldn't go on Saturday as we had a small family function related to E...

As I write this, the clock is ticking. The day has come. After 104 days, pubs are free to open again, albeit with many restrictions to limi...

I left work - forever as it turned out - in 2007. Here's what I wrote in my Tandleman's Musings Blog which, was a kind of personal ...

If today's press stories are to be believed, it appears that the Government will finally make its mind up about pubs re-opening and the...

The trade is in crisis. As UK lockdown and with it the closure of our pubs, now into its 11th week, continues, things are getting seriously...

Those who know me well, know that I don't really drink at home. I presumably thought I did at one time, but the large number of undrunk...

I was looking through old blogposts the other day. This was in a way inspired by Boak and Bailey asking which writing you are proudest of  ...