THE THINGS I do for others! Now, just to help those not in a position to judge for themselves, I have been drinking beer. Yes, I know, but that’s me – never a thought of self.

Anyway, did you know that there is a new local brewery? Nothing like on the scale of the mob at the top of West Bay Road but still brewers for all that.

I came across their wallop whilst investigating the wares of the old striped cat in the Bridport street where the soldiers used to hang out. There the pump stood, on the bar, proud as punch and twice as attractive. Cobb is the name of this tipple and it comes all the way from the Town Mill in Lyme Regis.

Neither did I, but apparently it’s a new set up and is a micro brewery, which, I assume, means that you can fold it up and slip it away in your pocket when you’ve finished knocking out the old essentials of life for the day.

As a true connoisseur of these things I can tell you, if you will excuse the technical term, it is not half way bad. In fact it is, as we experts describe, a really decent drop of slurping juice.

Nor am I the only one to hold this opinion. The landlord tells me that it is winning a lot of favour with his regulars and looks set to become a permanent feature in his dispensary of the necessities.

I must admit that the fact that it was local first attracted me. Then I tried it and would honestly choose it purely on the excellence of the brew. So here’s strength to your arms at the Town Mill Brewery – you keep churning out the medicine and we’ll keep on taking it.

Editor’s Note: For the benefit of readers not quite so familiar with the beerography of Bridport , The Red Bladder was visiting The Tiger in Barrack Street. The brewery at the top of West Bay Road is Palmers. I just made the word beerography up.