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Bernie Brewsniffer the Beerhound has compiled this list of regular outlets for stuff other than your basic John's and Tetleys. Please email the webmaster if you have any updates.

Acorn   Anglers Retreat, Wintersett 

Anglo Dutch three miles over the border at the West Riding Licensed Refreshment Rooms, Dewsbury Station; 

Banks's Quarry Inn, Horbury

Bass/Worthington possibly at some of these pubs: Bulls Head, Horbury;  Castle Inn, Sandal; Red Kite, Durkar; Ship Inn, Horbury Bridge; Blue Bell, Wentbridge

Black Sheep Bradley Arms, North Featherstone;The Bridge, Whitwood; Liquorice Bush, Pontefract; Waggon, Wakefield; Fox & Hounds, Newmillerdam; Bull's Head, Horbury; Three Houses, Sandal; Bay Horse, Wrenthorpe; Blue Bell, Wentbridge; Carleton Grange Club

Bob's Brewing Red Lion, Ossett, Brewers Pride, Ossett

Brown Cow a couple of miles over the boundary at the Chequers Inn, Ledsham nr Castleford, or the George & Dragon at West Haddlesey beyond Knottingley

Cains As a result of the takeover of Honeycombe Leisure by Cains it's likely that Cains will appear at the Bulls Head, Horbury and possibly at Last Orders in Featherstone.

Caledonian-Deuchars IPA New Inn, Walton, Beastfair Vaults, Pontefract; Bradley arms, North Featherstone

Camerons Quarry Inn, Horbury; Kings Arms, Horbury;  possibly at the Windmill Inn, Foulby near Crofton

Clark's Kings Arms, Heath Common; Boons, Horbury; Henry Boons, Wakefield and not infrequently as a guest at the Crimea Tavern, Castleford

Courage Directors Star Inn, Sandal; possibly at Parkside Hotel, Pontefract; 

Elland Brewery occasionally at Navigation, Calder Grove, and quite regularly at the Six Chimneys (Wetherspoons) in Wakefield

Fernandes Fernandes Brewery Tap, Wakefield

Greene-King Abbot Jolly Miller, Kettlethorpe; Three Houses, Sandal

Greene-King Old Speckled Hen Carlton Hotel, Pontefract

Hardys & Hansons, (subject to any decisions made by Greene King), Holmfield Arms in Thornes Park (Bitter and Olde Trip), also over the boundary at the Chartist, Skelmanthorpe 

Jennings Pledwick Well, Newmillerdam; New Inn, Walton; Ship, Stanley Ferry

Marstons British Oak, Calder Grove;  Quarry Inn, Horbury;  British Oak, Aberford Rd, Wakefield;The College, Wakefield; Malt Shovel, Carr Gate; Horse & Groom, Heath Common; Malt Shovel, Pontefract; Cross Keys, Old Snydale; Boot & Shoe, Ackworth (most will be Pedigree, some may be Marstons Bitter)

Old Mill Kirklands, Outwood; often at Brookside Commercial Club, South Elmsall

Ossett Brewers Pride, Healey; O'Donoghues, Wakefield; Wakefield Labour Club; Harry's Bar, Wakefield; Brewery Tap, Ossett: Fernandes, Wakefield from August 2007

Roosters Wagon, Wakefield; Red Lion, Ossett

John Smiths Magnet please tell us if you find it! (all former entries have discontinued it as a regular beer)

Samuel Smith White House, Featherstone (uses aspirator on dispense); Star, Netherton; Horse & Jockey, Ossett; Albion, Stanley Rd, Wakefield;  Wheel Inn, Wrenthorpe; Anglers Retreat, Wintersett; Bull's Head, Horbury?; Boot & Shoe, Ackworth; Lord of the Manor, Crofton

Stones Bitter possibly at the Castle Inn, Sandal

Taylors  Kings Arms, Heath Common;Boons, Horbury; Bradley Arms, North Featherstone; George, Ossett; Harry's Bar, Wakefield (2 sorts of Taylors); Henry Boons, Wakefield; Harewood Arms, Wakefield; Redoubt, Wakefield; Talbot & Falcon, Wakefield; White Hart, Wakefield; Blue Bell, Wentbridge; Rising Sun, Whitwood; Bingley Arms, Horbury Bridge; Ship Inn, Horbury Bridge; Victoria, South Ossett; Sportsman, Ryhill

Tetley Mild British Oak, Calder Grove; Shoulder of Mutton, Castleford; Redoubt, Wakefield; Alverthorpe WMC;

Theakston Boot & Shoe, Ackworth; Rogerthorpe Manor, Badsworth; Glassblower, Castleford; Bridge Inn, Whitwood; Crofton Arms; Bulls Head, Horbury;  Victoria, Horbury; Lupset Hotel; Railway Inn, Mill Dam, Pontefract; Raven, Wakefield; Plough, Warmfield; Anglers Retreat, Wintersett (don't ask which Theakston we mean, though)

Thwaites  Coopers Arms at Ossett has Thoroughbred; the Little Bull at Ossett Spa has Original and just beyond Knottingley at the Plough, Burton Salmon there are at least two Thwaites brews

Wentworth for regular Wentworth beers you need to go a little way South from our area to the Market Hotel at Elsecar or the Commercial at Chapeltown, but the Spread Eagle at Darrington features many South Yorkshire Brewers as guest ales.

THESE MAY ALSO BE FOUND ELSEWHERE AS GUEST BEERS, AND A LISTING IS NO ASSURANCE OF QUALITY. PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU HAVE ANY AMENDMENTS OR ADDITIONS