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Tandleman's Beer Blog: Do We Like That One?
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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer. Monday, 27 July 2015. Do We Like That One? I'm not a drinker of own brand beers really. I kind of think they are likely to be not very good with one or two exceptions. These exceptions are usually where a very good brewery has been commissioned to produce a particular kind of beer as part of a range. But what about those low end "cooking lagers" which aren't brands, but are set up to compete with "brands"? First up was Galahad Lager. Gives every impress...
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Tandleman's Beer Blog: Bass in the Sun
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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer. Monday, 15 June 2015. Bass in the Sun. You don't encounter Draught Bass that often these days in my experience. I know of a couple of places where it is sold, but I wouldn't go there just to seek the beer out as such. It wasn't always so. I used to make many a pilgrimage to the White Star. On a gorgeous summer's day last week, I was meeting a friend in Helensburgh, a town I know well from my youth in the West of Scotland. The Commodore Hotel. Draught Ba...
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Tandleman's Beer Blog: Another Thing the Pub is Best For
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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Another Thing the Pub is Best For. One of our Sunday table from the Tandle Hill Tavern has died. We knew it was coming and so did he. Yesterday after his funeral we met, not at the Tavern, but at the nearby Ship, thus allowing the landlord of the THT to join us to see the lad off in a style he'd have liked. We had a piss up. Sounds like the perfect send off for a pub man. 29 July 2015 at 22:46. 30 July 2015 at 08:57. Nautical vi...
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Tandleman's Beer Blog: Fight
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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer. Tuesday, 19 May 2015. We are always being told by the anti drink lobby of "alcohol fuelled violence", but I have remarked here and in comments hither and thither that I can't remember the last time I saw a fight in a pub. Well I can now. Sort of. On my usual Wednesday out at the Regal Moon. An unusual incident I think you'll agree. I'm still guessing though that it will be a long time before I "see" a fight in a pub again. 19 May 2015 at 10:44. This blo...
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A Review of Z a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Ann Fowler. May 7, 2015. May 9, 2015. While I was at the SYP Conference last year, I picked up, or rather found in my free Inspired Selection tote, a copy of. Z a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. By Therese Anne Fowler. I had not come across it before and it just ended up on my shelf. After finishing. And rushing out the house to work, I grabbed it and began a fascinating read about Zelda Fitzgerald, until then, who I knew nothing of. Two Roads, 7.99. The in...
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A Misspent Childhood: Books I Wish I’d Read as a Child, and Well-Loved Books Worth Revisiting | LifeWordsandBooks
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A Misspent Childhood: Books I Wish I’d Read as a Child, and Well-Loved Books Worth Revisiting. August 31, 2014. The Night Life of the Gods. By Thorne Smith something he had read as a child and loved. His copy was well worn, proof of his affection for it 30 years earlier, and as any child might I idolised my father and took on his recommendation. I have a strong recollection of thumbing the fragile pages while we were on an excessively long holiday in California, sitting in the back of a rental car. The m...
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My favourite Christmas books…. And films | LifeWordsandBooks
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My favourite Christmas books…. And films. December 1, 2014. December 1, 2014. With that in mind I thought I would share some of my favourite Christmas books. Most of them have been with me for 20 years, read each Christmas without fail to maintain the Christmas tradition and nostalgia of Christmas as a six year old. The Jolly Christmas Postman. 8211; Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Christmas at Blackberry Farm. Father Christmas, Raymond Briggs. 8211; A Christmas classic in a tiny format. (One of my favs). If yo...
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Tandleman's Beer Blog: Big Brother is Watching Everyone
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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer. Wednesday, 20 May 2015. Big Brother is Watching Everyone. Well forgive me, but this is an economic question as well as a social one. It seems though that there is a problem in Germany. Intervention by doctors at an early stage would cost $228 million dollars more than continuing with existing policies which have seen the large reductions in consumption. Pick the bones out of that. If you really feel depressed you can read the full report here. Claims th...
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Tandleman's Beer Blog: This Is Lager?
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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer. Thursday, 4 June 2015. It isn't often that I disagree with the Beer Nut. About BrewDog's This. Is. Lager. TIL) The caveat is that the Beer Nut describes the bottled version in his post and I have been drinking the draught version. How can this be? I turned to a friend of mine who manages a leading JDW for his thoughts. "It doesn't turn over as quickly as it needs to to be fresh and consistent". He said. "And most people just don't like it.". I disagree&...
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