You can now find good beer the length and breadth of the island, according to the latest edition of the popular Camra Good Beer Guide.

A total of 28 pubs feature in the edition for 2019, with boozers to thrill the real ale connoisseur from Port St Mary to Ramsey and Peel to Laxey.

Furthermore, there are yet more pubs that would qualify for an entry, but there simply isn’t space in the guide to feature them, according to Angela Aspin, of Isle of Man Camra (Campaign for Real Ale).

’The island is allocated 28 entries in the GBG so not all the pubs that sell good beer can go in,’ she said, adding a recent fact-finding tour had been especially encouraging.

’I went around the island with a group from the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood this weekend and it was heartening that we never had a bad pint,’ she said.

For central Douglas, the quayside area features heavily with entries for The British, the Hooded Ram, the Albert, the Market and, close by, the Rovers and the Prospect.

But for the capital’s thirstier residents there are others out of the town centre, with the Queen’s Hotel and the Terminus Tavern on the promenades and the Woodbourne, Rosemount and Horse and Plough further west.

The villages seem to do just as well. The west is well represented with the Raven in Ballaugh and the Ginger Hall at Sulby. Foxdale’s Baltic Inn is described as a ’friendly village pub, a cosy local... with a roaring fire in winter’.

Peel has long been represented, with the resident White House sharing a page in the guide with the Marine and the Creek.

Outside Douglas, the Manx Arms in Onchan and the Bridge Inn and Queen’s Hotel in Laxey are the island’s other eastern entries.

Heading north, Ramsey’s Mitre Hotel is noted for its views over the harbour and its entrances, from both the harbour and town sides of the building. The town’s Trafalgar Hotel is another quayside pub and a beer guide regular.

Imbibers in the south are well catered for too, with entries for the Sidings and the Castle Arms, or Gluepot, in Castletown. The Bay Hotel in Port Erin, is described in the guide as ’Bushy’s flagship pub...on one of the best beaches in the island’.

Finally, Port St Mary punches above its weight with three entries. The popular quayside Albert Hotel is described as ’a hidden gem in the heart of this coastal village’, the Railway Station Hotel is in a ’picturesque rural location’, and the Shore Hotel near Gansey commands ’stunning views’ across the bay.

The website Whatpub.com gives more information on GBG pubs and other pubs not in the guide because of lack of space.

Ms Aspin said: ’Camra’s main problem at the moment is keeping pubs open, you can only buy real ale in pubs.’