Yorkshire Terrier Public House, Stonegate, York.

Yorkshire Terrier - A premium bitter with a rich, creamy malt and full hop palate finish (from the York Brewery).

Good Pub (always visit when in York) - nice drink!

That's if you can get into the Yorkshire Terrier. My front from is nearly bigger than the Yorkshire Terrier. Mind you the York Brewery isn't that big itself.

Now you're talking! John Smith's Tasteless, sorry Smooth, is beer for the lager drinker, no more no less ; cold, pasteurised and dead. Yorkshire Terrier on the other hand is a well-rounded premium bitter. Good arrer!

Try the Three Legged Mare in that case, or the Wonky Donkey to the locals

Excellent beers and well kept.

or The Last Drop.

Please note: It seems that this place has gone down-hill in that the owners only open when they feel like it. On Wednesday it should have opened at 5pm but when we called just before 7pm, we eventually got told by some locals that it wasn't opening at all that night!

Clearly, I don't recommend wasting time calling here in future!

We ended up in Weatherspoons, an old picture house (the name escapes me at the moment) A couple of nice beers in there (subsidised by the fact we won a fiver on the quiz machine....well £3.00 profit to be honest). Somethng loke 'Old witches Brew' or something, im sure SO will remember better then i.

Easily the highlight of the evening!

Pendle Witches Brew - a very nice strong malty beer from the Moorhouse Brewery. Wish I'd had some on Wednesday - might have dulled the pain a little!

Gatehouse and Tut & Shive tonight before a trip to the Keepmoat (not for the beer obviously).

Exmoor Stag (5.2%) and Pendle Witches Brew (5.1%).
The Wetherspoons is called The Regal Moon....presumably previously a picture house called The Regal.

Had a few decent brews since posting. Wednesday saw me at the Hare and Hounds in Fishlake where I sampled Boondoggle ( Ringwood) and a rather insipid Marston's Long Hop. Hope that Marston's takeover of Ringwood doesn't result in a dilution of beer quality. Must think Old Empire rather than Pedigree

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Had Spire Sovereign and Whiter Shade of Pale plus Saltaire Olympia ( a re-badged Blonde ), Bradfield Yorkshire Farmer and Ossett Yorkshire Glory at the Bluecoat in Rotherham, all to which I would definitely return.

Sampled a few White Lion from Red Lion Brewery, Ossett these last few days in the Fighting Cock, Bradford. Gorgeous pale ale.

The Gatehouse had Courage Directors last night - lovely drink!

Especially before/after last night results at the keepmoat,Gary

No complaints on either score mate.

The Arkwright Arms had The Brew Company's Slaker, Derby's Fruity Blonde and Newby Wyke's Summer Session, all eminently quaffable light summer ales at around 3.8% ABV each.

Sampled Titanic Red Ensign, Butcombe Blond, Wood's Wonderful and Three Rivers Hilary('s) Gold at the Bluecoat, Rotherham. All very palatable and would/will definitely pay a second visit.

Tried the Red Ensign on Friday in the Gatehouse before noticing the Directors. It was a little on the sour side. Interestingly enough, someone else made that comment whilst we were stood at the Bar later so perhaps it's usually better than that.

Perhaps it was from the bottom of the barrel or, dare I say it, not as well kept as it might have been?

As far as Directors is concerned, it's not a patch on how it used to be, although still infinitely better than the dishwater badged as Smooth.

I agree it's not how I remember it from years ago but still a decent drink all the same.

Directors is brewed by Youngs Wells now.

Sampled the following in No2 Refreshment Rooms on the Station at Cleggy, Saturday afternoon,(excellent little watering hole ) Hardy & Hansons Old Trip (superb) Wold Top's A4 Amber and Cottage Brewing Goldrush(excellent). Just get out of there before the Ladette Lager and black brigade arrive early evening


Carpenters Arms at Tickhill have Everards Tiger on (lovely) and Scarboro Arms (Tickhill) best drop is Abbott (superbly kept and a meal in a glass)

They also have Heart of Hampshire real cider on(more of a scrumpy) brilliant stuff.

A couple of my favourites mentioned there ... Old Trip and Abbot.

Arrived at the Scarbrough Arms, Leeds en-route to Keighley on Sunday to find that they are mid-way through a Yorkshire Real Ale and Cheese week featuring Pork Pie (yes it really did say that on the posters).

Sampled the Abbeydale Black Mass (6.66%) before moving on.

Roosters YPA in Wetherspoons on Leeds Station.

Also visited a couple of Timothy Taylor pubs in Keighley. The Boltmakers Arms and the Volunteers. Sampled Ram Tam in the former, Best Bitter in the latter.