A BREWERY famed for the wacky titles of its beers has christened another brew - thanks to the fertile imagination of a 74 year-old pensioner.

Goose Eye brewery, in Keighley, is brewing Barm Pot Bitter - a name concocted by retired Bradford planner, Stan Brooksbank.

"Barm Pot's a real Yorkshire phrase and means you're a bit mentally unsound. If you drink a lot you could be a bit of a barm pot," said Stan.

"But a barm is also a fermentation of malt liquor - so it's very appropriate," said Stan, of Haworth Road, Bradford.

He rose to the brewery's challenge for readers to invent a name for the new brew.

Brewers, father and son team Jack and David Atkinson, have already come up with a host of off-beat names for the at least 15 new brews they produce a year.

Like, No Eye Deer, Old Three Laps and Over and Stout, a beer brewed at the Ingrow brewery to celebrate the millennium.

Stan, a former Bradford magistrate and keen crown green bowler, called at the brewery this week and is pictured trying a taste of Barm Pot.

"It's very good - not too bitter," said Stan, who went home with a case of Goose Eye bottled Bronte Bitter as a thank you.

Jack, 54, said: "We got a great response from the article - about two dozen suggestions - but chose Barm Pot because of it's clever link with the brewing.

"It's already proved popular - it's at the Corn Dolly in Bradford, the Fighting Cock in Thornton, Fanny's Ale House in Shipley and the Brown Cow in Bingley. Pubs have taken it in Leeds, Dewsbury, Huddersfield and a wholesaler has taken it in Kent."

Barm Pot - a pale session ale - will be on sale throughout January.

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