The Conqueror Alehouse, Ramsgate

Compact alehouse without a counter, with up to six beers on stillage in a back room (which you need to pass through to find the toilet). The choice this time was Gadd's No 7, Wold Top Headland Red (£3.00) and Pig & Porter Slow Back, with a couple of boxed ciders available too. Limited amount of seating (mostly tall stools) and decor mostly historical information about the eponymous paddle steamer. With its friendly banter and decent beer, this micro-pub is well worth seeking out.

A brilliant idea for a straight forward ale stop (well, number of ales in fact!) COMPACT in every sense of the word yet has all you need including a proper "enthusiast" in charge. Only recently opened on our visit there was already a cadre of regulars and the beer was in top form. From Ramsgate station, aim right down the road, across at a set of traffic lights and keep going then, at the end of a long terrace it springs out on you from the right! If you reach the sea you've gone too far! Well worth the walk! Note, the hours on our visit were 1100-1400 and 1700-2100.