Back in the Corner Pin yesterday and an excellent selection of ales available ...

Great Newsome Waste Not Want Not #6 3.8%, an IPA with citrus hints.

Great Newsome Liquorice Lads Stout 4.3%, not in the same league as the brewery's Gem's Stout but pleasant enough and the liquorice isn't overpowering.

Great Newsome Harvest Festivale 4.7%, a copper ale with biscuit and honey flavours, very nice.

Little Critters Nutty Ambassador 6.0%, an always enjoyable coffee and hazelnut milk stout.

Nice one Ian, hope its a success on both fronts. https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/ne ... -1-9355378

Nice one Ian, hope its a success on both fronts. https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/ne ... -1-9355378

Tuesday evening in the Lower Angel, Warrington ...

Wincle Beer Co. Full Fat 4.6%, a chocolate, liquorice and treacle milk porter which was very enjoyable.

Slaters Premium 4.4%, an excellent best bitter, malty with hints of caramel.

A couple of drinks in the Picture Palace, Braintree prior to heading out to Chelmsford races;

St Peters Honey Porter 4.5%, a dark ruby ale with a honey aroma and chocolate, honey and vanilla flavours. Very much to my taste.

Daleside Monkey Wrench 5.3%, a dark chestnut coloured winter warmer with malt and fruit overtones. A familiar taste of Yorkshire in Essex

Welbeck Abbey Duck Decoy 4.6%, was a pleasant surprise in the Corner Pin yesterday. Badged as a fresh and fragrant USA pale, I expected it to be too floral for my taste but with hints of orange and pear and nice and smooth on the palate, I found it very enjoyable.

Are you beginning to see the 'light'?

I don't mind the odd one or two. If I'm having golden or pale ales I prefer to have them before getting on to the darker ales.

Terrapin Beer Co. (USA) Naked Bliss 5.0%, brewed at Wadworth Brewery exclusively for Wetherspoons, sampled in the Friar Penketh, Warrington yesterday was a Porter with roasted malt and chocolate, coffee & caramel flavours. Absolutely wonderful, a thing of beauty.

Also very enjoyable was Weetwood Old Dog 4.5%, a bread and caramel flavoured premium bitter, in the Lower Angel.

Yep wash the taste out of your mouth

Courage Directors located in the Black Bull, Doncaster last night

Also an interesting and welcome find was Kansas Avenue (Salford) Smith and Tinker 4.0%, a chestnut ale packed with molasses, toffee and treacle.

Don Valley Brewery Amber Road 3.8%, an amber ale with hints of apricot and peach was pleasantly surprising in the Queens, Doncaster yesterday lunchtime.

George Gale's Seafarers Ale 3.6%, a golden best bitter in the Corner Pin was also pleasant enough.

Eagle and Child, Auckley, pre game Sunday. Kelham Island brewery 'It's goodnight from him' a 4% stout that my brother in law thought was bloody lovely (had a sip and it was nice) The blurb on the KIB site says A full bodied, smooth stout, brewed with five different malts including oat malt, gives this beer a rich malty flavour with notes of chocolate coffee and liquorice on the aroma.

Gary, one for you me thinks

Newark yesterday en-route to and from Southwell races ...

Peak Ales Paxton 4.4%, in the Ram Bar and Brasserie, a ruby red ale, malty with blackcurrant on the aftertaste. Pleasant without being spectacular.

Terrapin Naked Bliss 5.0%, in the Sir John Arderne, second time in a week and still absolutely wonderful.

Pheasantry Best Bitter 3.8%, in the Fox and Crown, not my favourite of this brewery's ales but always palatable enough.