The Blue Mugge, Leek

Excellent backstreet local, with a variety of seating areas, side rooms and pool / darts facilities around the island servery (and altogether rather bigger inside than one might expect). All parts very traditional, but seemingly working well for mostly younger customers. Six real ales on offer when I visited, but it's a bit of a guessing game since the handpumps are distributed around the central bar-back rather than being on the various narrow counters. I went for the Burton Bridge anniversary Ruby Red (£3.20) but could happily have gone for several others.