The Creeker's Tap, Faversham

Micro-pub located at the station end of the Preston Street, with a limited amount of seating around the periphery on the Hop Festival Sunday (so there may be more furniture at other times). Fairly rustic in appearance, helped by the fresh bines adorning the compact bar, and the enlarged B&W local history photographs add interest. As an (unbranded) Whitstable Brewery outlet, it was no surprise to find three of their beers on the gravity taps, plus Hophead and two from Holler Boys: Brass Hand (£3.60) and Bevvy Beast. Three real ciders are also available, together with six craft keg beers.

Previously the Able Glass glazier's shop, this superb micro was opened at the end of 2016 as the tap for Whitstable Brewery. There is a main bar, Spartan and timber clad as many of these places are, and a small rear lounge with comfortable seating. A blackboard lists the ales on, which are dispensed from taps on the wall behind the bar. From Whitstable's own stable were Native, Oyster Stout, East India Pale Ale, Christmas Spirit, Kentish Lager and a raspberry wheat beer. Guests were Northern Whisper's Beltie, Arbor Ales's Blue Sky Drinking, Gamma Ray from Beavertown, Black Hag's Eureka Ekuanot and Hacker-Pschorr pils. There were 3 ciders on, one from Duddas Tun, a mango cider and one from Somerset. There was also a good selection of gins and a surprisingly reasonable wine list, though the tone was lowered by the offer of cheap (and, by definition, nasty) Prosecco. Expensive bar snacks were the food offering. An excellent addition to Faversham's non-Shepherd and Neame drinking scene, and I shall certainly be back.