The Beverley near Hull mate?

No, the Beverley Court Inn at Edenthorpe on the outskirts of Doncaster.

Ah I see. Beverley is actually meant to be great for pubs (inc The Warton Arms on the way to Beverley if you're coming from Hull) but never been round the town itself for a beer, will have to put that right at some point...

I had a couple of hours at Ilkley beer festival last friday afternoon. It was slightly bizarre, the whole afternoon is a corporate sponsorship thing where (mainly) Leeds' big legal, financial & property companies try to outdo each other by wearing rugby yawnion tops with their names emblazened across them (why it is yawnion & not soccer, league or cricket tops is an intersting debate). Apart from that it was great, all the beer was free, as was an endless supply of Lishman's pies. As my time was short (& you could barely move) I concentrated on local ales, both geographically & within the halls; all were good, most I've since forgotten the name of, though the clear winner, among those I had not tried before, was Gooseye (Keighley) Chinook. A fantastic pale beer.

still cutting down on your beer intake mate ?



or you back to being a complete p***head !!!

Bombadier in reasonable form in the Bay Horse (Bentley) in recent days.

Jaipur in the Old Angel on Sunday after the game.
Heaven!

Exmoor Beast, a dark,dangerous ale ( and gorgeous! ) at 6.6% at the Bluecoat, Rotherham.

I was in the White Swan in Doncaster last night at about 7:30.
They were serving Black Sheep and A Glentworth blond ale at 4.2% at £1.95 a pint.
Had two of the Glentworth ... gorgeous, tasted like Jaipur.
How spooky is that?
Since my last pint in town on Sunday was the real Jaipur.

Going round Hull's Old Town tommorow night, some great real ale pubs around there so fingers crossed will have plenty to report back on on Sunday.

To be honest mate I still go out once a week but that's it now. 3-4 years ago it was Friday, Saturday & Sunday many weeks (probably 25 pints in just over 48 hours which I'm not proud of), but obviously I only go out a third of that now (drinking 6-8 pints I'd say) so I'm happy with that.

Had a good trip down to the Br*dford beer festival, which bizarrely was held in Saltaire last night.

The highlight being a cracking pint of Hill Island Black Thai. I'm not usually a fan of ginger beers but this was a great brown ale with just the right amount of ginger, lemongrass and thai spice coming through.