The first beer from the new Bitter End Brewery will be on sale in the Bitter End pub on Kirkgate in Cockermouth within the next week.

Landlord and brewer Mark Cockbain, originally from Keswick, says it will be a full bodied dark bitter.

Some readers will recall that there used to be a brewery in this pub but the previous owner did away with it.

Mark is an experienced landlord and has run The Wheatsheaf at Lorton for years.

But brewing is a new venture and he is to be applauded for investing and setting up this new operation at The Bitter End.

Mark is pictured here shortly after the brewery plant was installed.

Mark is a real Cumbrian, so no surprise looking at the name of his first beer.