Doncaster Brewery Tap, Doncaster

We paid a return visit to this Brewery Tap early on a midweek evening. Being a converted shop, it very much has the feeling of a micropub. It was quite busy whilst we were there, with quite a few regulars and beer tickers. Sand House is the regular beer. Additional beers from the brewery were 203 Minutes, Cheswold Bitter & Wishbone T'Pol. However, as with my last visit, the excellent cider range drew me in - Village Green Classical Dry & Sweet Country, Udders Waterloo Sunset Perry & Lindley Gold, Abrahall's Strawberry & Lime Cider & Ascension Champing At The Pit. I tried a couple that I'd not had before, leaving me no time to try the Doncaster brews. There is a reason why this is the local CAMRA cider pub of the year. Whilst I used to like Cask Corner when it was open, I believe this is now Doncaster's best pub.

I called in here on my way to Peterborough, having arranged a gap between trains to take in a pub or two in Donny. The pub had only just opened (12 noon on Saturday) but there was a ukulele player already warming up and a couple of people on their way to a Pride march through the town. More pertinently, there were a large number of beers and ciders arrayed across a dozen hand pumps on the bar. Service was friendly and the beer I had, the brewery's own Cheswold Bitter in reasonable condition, though a little underwhelming taste-wise. I'm sure I'll be back when Luton Town appear here later in the season. (The toilets are upstairs, which involves going through the door at the back and through the brewery premises and another door - to the right rear - to access the stairs.)

Having opened in 2014 this is now a veteran micropub. It is a proper one with no TVs etc. It's on the larger side and was doing a good trade on a Saturday afternoon. There are now twelve hand pumps which had six ciders, four Doncaster ales and two guests Muirhouse Greedy King and Half Moon Dark Masquerade. I went for the Doncaster Mucky Bucket (£3.00) which was excellent. It's well worth a visit and is GBG 2018 listed.