Newport Ale House, Newport

Very compact alehouse, really just a micropub, with a limited number of seats between the counter and front window (and less than usual with a singer in one corner on a Sunday afternoon). Decor all pump clips and other breweriana. Beer-wise, there are up to six cask ales on a twin-rack stillage behind bar, with the three offerings when I visited being Island Ales Wight Gold, Back, Sack and Quack from Dancing Duck (£3.65) and Hanlon's Stormsay. There is also a specialist off-licence under the same ownership on the other side of the archway through to the rear yard. Well worth seeking out.