Green Dragon, Beverley

Old building thoroughly modernised interior. Some bits work but a lot doesn't and its a bit cheap in places, fake grass in the courtyard and some tacky fittings. Nice enough though, 9 real ales, mainly standards.

Unbranded M&B (Oak Tree) pub whose narrow façade belies the extensive seating within the elongated rectangular interior. Pleasantly semi-traditional appearance both inside and out. Further seating in the side alleyway. I found a cider and eight real ales on the ten handpumps - not that exciting a selection, but my pint of Sharp's Rising Tide red ale (£2.80) was nice enough.

Although we were here on a quiet Monday rather than a busy Friday, our impressions were much the same as Aqualung's (below). In fact, nearly all the beers were the same too (see photos). I suppose it's encouraging that a market square pub has so many real ales to chose from, but it's difficult to feel at home in a building that's been mucked about with to the extent that this one has - and in this regard it is typical of a market square pub. If you're after a good selection of well kept but not terribly interesting beers, this would be a good call, but if you want somewhere to relax and look around, try somewhere else. Date of visit: 1st August 2016

As noted below this is a very long narrow pub with a low ceiling, beams and generally rather dark. A quiz was advertised as well as live music & karaoke to drive you into going somewhere else. It was fairly busy early on a Friday evening. There are ten hand pumps here one of which was unused and one taken with a cider. One was taken up with the most ridiculous guest ale ever "Sky Sports New Season". Only a global abomination could come up with as naff an idea as this, in this case Mouldy Corpse. To cap it all this lightweight 4.2% rubbish was priced 40p dearer than the Summer Lightning so presumably the Dirty Digger is getting a cut. Other beers were Doom Bore, GK IPA, Harviestoun Summer Legend Easy IPA, an Inveralmond beer, Adnam's Ghost Ship and York Terrier. I went for the Summer Lightning (£2.85) which was in good nick. I didn't really take to this pub but it was OK.