Most of the pubs once owned by Buntings Uttoxeter Brewery came under the control of Allied Breweries which, in the 1970s, was infamous for its preference for keg beers.

Predictably then, a glance at a twenty year old pub guide reveals just a third of Uttoxeter's pubs selling real ale and the choice limited to only four beers, all from Allied or Bass.

Things have improved considerably since then and a survey during the evening of Thursday 9th December found cask beer in all the town's sixteen pubs, with seventeen different brews on handpump:

BLACK SWAN, Market St.: Bass.

LIMES, Cheadle Rd.: Banks's Original, Marstons Pedigree.

OLD STAR, Queen St.: Gales Admiral Bitter, Worthington Bitter, Bass.

PLOUGH, Stafford Rd.: Ind Coope Burton Ale, Worthington Bitter, Bass.

ROEBUCK, Dove Bank: Fuller's London Pride, Ruddles County, Theakstons Bitter, Theakstons XB, Courage Directors.

TALBOT, Market St.: Bass.

THREE TUNS, Cheadle Rd.: Worthington Bitter, Bass.

VAULTS, Market Place: Marstons Pedigree, Worthington Bitter, Bass.

WELLINGTON, High St.: Bass.

WHEATSHEAF, Bridge St.: Bass.

WHITE HORSE, Bridge St.: Bass.