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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 years

Should pubs and bars be required by law to display a representative list of prices?

Yes

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

I just want to stand at the bar of a wet-led pub drinking a pint of decent cask beer and listening to the crack and feeling the buzz of a proper pub. 😣

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Got married yesterday. Wow!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

Then do not pretend you are a pub.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Didn't I post this before? How cask beer looks when bursting with condition. Weep Southern persons.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Unexpected certificate in the presentation area.😳

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

My first Scotch pies cooling. If they taste as good as they look, I'm happy. Bit bigger than normal but I couldn't find a springform tin under 4 inches.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

10 months

First pint for quite some time. @JWLeesBrewery Bitter. Good to be back in @RoseofLancs

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Cask beer dying on its arse in Pendleton. 🙄

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Vaccinated. Astra Zeneca version. 😊

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Interesting. Both Citra. One muddy and imprecise. One clear with clean flavours. Banging the same old drum, because it fucking needs banging.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 years

Just intervened in a racially motivated verbal assault on a fellow passenge and his wife on the bus from Oldham. This sort of thing is despicable.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

11 months

Our heritage is being pissed away.

Iconic pub 'sold to private buyer and unlikely to open its doors again'

In its heyday, the pub attracted drinkers from across the globe

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Can't remember when I last had a pint of Old Peculier.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 months

Celebrating my 25,000th day on this fine planet with a pint of @redwillowbrew Winter Mild. Very nice too.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Bloody Wetherpoons. Mass Market beer.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Even though I was expecting us to remain in Tier 3 despite tumbling rates, I feel very depressed by its fact and sorry not only for us beer drinkers, but extremely so for my many friends in the trade whose backs are against the wall.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

The Olde Boar's Head in Middleton looking fab in the gloaming last night.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

Today we say goodbye to my friend Paul. He achieved 50 years brewing with @JWLeesBrewery , but sadly he passed away shortly after. Today is his funeral. A very sad day.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

@MrYesWeCan @Lifelandlady Quite right. I was the Y2K Project Manager for the then Benefits Agency. (Now DWP). We spent many millions and huge efforts making all UK Social Security computer systems compliant in such a way that nobody outside noticed.Millions got their benefits as usual. That's success.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Proper pub.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Today's breweriana comes under the heading "Things I didn't know I had". A spirited defence of hazy beer by @marblebrewers Not dated, but I'm guessing around Year 2000. Happy to be corrected.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

An hour out with @totalcurtis Followed by several more hours out with us drinking cask beer of the utmost quality. Cask in trouble? Nope, I am because of aforementioned.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

6 years

Why does almost every brewer feel that you must put coffee in a stout? Stop it.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 years

Listening to lots of Polish voices on the train back to Manchester from Liverpool. It is a delight. Who could say "Go Home". They are home.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Making a murk exceptionl for @HardKnottDave

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Proper beer this. Proper beer. No fruit pulp. ☝️

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

An American mate of mine posted this:

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

It's official. Sam Smith pubs in the North now take contactless. Even phones, but only during the payment process. Still not allowed otherwise.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Pretty happy with this.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Today's breweriana are real classics. First the old Boddingtons Brewery pub sign which adorned all their pubs when independent. It sits on a shelf in my kitchen. Second from my office wall, the newer and better known one. Two beauties though eh?

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

@IndyVoices @JaneFae I hope that the Indie didn't pay you for that claptrap. What about the jobs, the people, the suppliers? This is a huge industry and you just flippantly write it off with throwaway clichés. Dear me.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Reading all last night's exotic brews that folks were drinking, while just little old me was quaffing perfect pints of bitter. Where did it all go so wrong?

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Spot the gulps.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Moonraker on cask. Nice. Price? Bonkers.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Possibly unwise at 6% but who can resist this?

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Handpumps in the @PiccadillyTap much improve the beer. Well done. Mild from rather lush.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Done!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Just a little note to the anonymous git who accused me of writing good things about @totalcurtis book to get a free copy. The time I spent on that piece of work - and effort spent - was worth a hell of a lot more than the cover price. Free?Hardly. 😡

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

The gorgeous birthday girl.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

Great pleasure to present the Rochdale Pub of the year award to Lucy Kelly of the Flying Horse. Well done.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Today's breweriana is a working Guinness clock. Sitting at the top of our stairs where there is a window and shelf, it has blown off a few times! It eats batteries and tells whatever time it likes, but at the moment isn't bad at all. That won't last. Age? 40 years +

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Mmmm. Bitter!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

My freshly poured, sparkled pint settles.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

It has been a fab few days since getting married. Lots of beer and good company. As my old mother would say "Tomorrow it's back to old clothes and porridge'.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Ironic.

Sam Smith's boss spotted using phone in pub after BANNING them in his

It seems pub chain Samuel Smith's owner Humphrey Smith has found a cunning way to get around his own rules of no phones out in the pub - by popping into a Wetherspoon's to check his.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Tandleman

@tandleman

11 months

Home. Thank goodness.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 years

Quick visit to BrewDog Tower Hill. Brewed here 5% Fruit Beer is £10.30 a pint. Nothing under £6 a pint. Craft Beer for the (rich) people!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

No comment needed. 😆

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 months

Having a pint of Cooper's Pale Ale in Melbourne's oldest pub and oldest building. No Sparkling but this is good. Unlike the photo.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

I got my booster Covid jab yesterday. Pfizer as it happens. I have a slightly sore arm otherwise fine and quite pleased to have had it. 👍

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

Last beer of the weekend!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

My case of beer from Germany has just arrived. Ordered Tuesday. Company warns. "No UK orders after 23/12 until we know what's going on." Thanks leavers.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

11 months

Day 6 post knee replacement. (5 in some ways as the op finished early evening). Pain more or less under control. Walking with crutches fairly well. Plenty of exercises to do. Stretches now possible as the leaking from my staples has stopped. I think I'm making progress.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Been saving so much money this lockdown, I'm considering buying some craft beer. 🤔

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

@thetimes Be nice if as a public service you'd remove this article from your paywall.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Bit random Iknow but....anyone remember Huntley and Palmer Lemon Puff biscuits? Fab they were. Sticky and delicious. Need them to return.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Well. Pubs to shut from midnight. I'm probably wrongly in the Ship. I'm going to get completely pissed on my last cask for some time. Stay safe out there.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

You meet all-sorts @gbbf

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Aren't these a handsome pair of Burton Brothers?

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Proper.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

This is really fab. Another not mucked about stout.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Todays little bit if history will bring back memories to some. Now I don't know if this was an early one or just a London only version. I suspect the latter.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 months

Settling. Hare and Hounds.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Really, really fancy a bitter cask conditioned stout. With a thick, creamy, sparkled head.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

@NavyLookout @estrategia161 Wonderful to see two such professional navies at work.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

@Holbornlolz @BeerNouveau The guy coming out of the garage doesn't seem bothered by a dalek going past. 🤔

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Just had to share this wonderful photo of my home town, Dumbarton. Taken by the very talented Tom Gardiner. Isn't it fab?

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 months

Watching RealAleCraft Beer on YouTube. Even he, repeat even he, has finally spotted that all NEIPA basically tastes the same. The craft version of boring brown bitter.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Cask conditioned stout. And it is just the angle that makes the head look too big. Especially with winter approaching more @JWLeesBrewery houses should ask for it. It is very good.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

Atmospheric photo from the Tavern last week.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

New Blog post about pubs re-opening.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

5 years

If you are going to have a pub lunch, might as well have it with the King of Pub Lunches!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Good to have the company of @blackpooljane on @CAMRA_ROB trip to a very sunny LSA.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

No need to say where.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Mmm.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

I've just asked my MP to back @CAMRA_Official 's campaign to treat pubs fairly and let them sell beer to take-away & drink at home during lockdown - just like supermarkets and off-licences can. You can too by following this link:

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Must admit to tearing a big hole out of the 5 litres of cask stout from my friends @SeriousBrewCo And I ain't finished yet. Cask. Unbeatable.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

slightly controversial post which I've been sitting on for some time but hey ho.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Ever wondered exactly when bottle conditioned Guinness ceased in England? April 1993. Seems it went earlier in N.Ireland and Scotland. Who knew that? Today's breweriana reveals almost all.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Still in date too.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

10 months

Another couple of milestones passed. Sat outside in a chair in the garden for half an hour - my first time outside since op on 4th August. Then walked up and down the close we live in two or three times with shoes on. A few clicks from my knee, but fine, though overall.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

7 months

My goodness. E has just pointed out I am quoted in a Sunday Times magazine article. About Sam Smith's no less.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Cob and Coal, Oldham

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Tandleman

@tandleman

8 months

Monday in Tomorden. Pub dying on its arse!

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Still fab.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

1 year

Quite different. Can't wait until they cool.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

2 years

Date for your diaries, Folks.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Today's breweriana will be the last in this lockdown series, as the pubs opening again tomorrow signals the beginning of the end. So let's finish with a cracker from my beloved Higsons. Early 60s metallised showcard. A favourite of mine. Obvs.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

6 years

Bit of a sneak preview as it isn't in trade yet. @JWLeesBrewery new stout shown in nitro and cask formats. Lush either way.

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Tandleman

@tandleman

7 years

Just phoned my 85 year old Mum from Germany. She asked me to phone back as she was off for a drink with her pals. #proud

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Tandleman

@tandleman

9 months

Sorry to say our trip to Buxton, in my opinion, has not turfed up one decent pint of cask ale. The exception, not in Buxton, was @thornbridge which was exemplary. Pretty pissed off. Biggest issue is too warm and poor condition. How to ruin cask ale. 🙁

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Fox and Pine Oldham

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Very sad to learn of the death yesterday of Tony Allen of Phoenix Brewery Heywood. Blonde beer pioneer, a great brewer and a very independent person. We will remember him fondly at our @CAMRA_ROB meeting on Tuesday. Cheers Tony 🍻

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Tandleman

@tandleman

3 years

Bit of a warning from the Isle of Man as Covid flares to a new high. Only a couple if weeks ago it was all systems go. Don't be too complacent people. Nothing is certain without extreme care.🇮🇲

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Tandleman

@tandleman

4 years

Need a bit more kit (banneton) to get the posh look but my rustic sourdough with rye not looking too shabby.