FANCY a walk on the mild side? Like to pace your pints or saunter between sups? Well here's your chance to get fitter with Black Sheep Bitter (enough already - Ed).

Harrogate hiker Mark Reid has published a new and revised version of his popular walking guide The Inn Way... to Black Sheep Pubs.

The first edition sold out last autumn, soon after the Times picked it as one of the "Six Of The Best Guides" in an article praising Mark's "very precise" instructions and the "fatally delicious Black Sheep Ale".

So Mark decided to take the opportunity to re-walk all 25 circular walks in the Yorkshire Dales and update the book.

Three months, 204 miles and 77 pubs later, Mark finished. The Inn Way... to Black Sheep Pubs (InnWay Publications, £6.95) has now been revised and updated with 14 new or revised walks, clearer maps and line drawings and 20 more pages of historical information.

"I've been out in all weathers," said Mark, "most of them wet...

"I have really enjoyed re-walking all of the routes over the last three months. It has been five years since I first began to research the book and I had almost forgotten how wonderfully varied the Yorkshire Dales are and how beautiful the landscape is, especially in some of the more remote corners."

The featured walks range from 5 miles to more challenging 13-mile routes, but they all call at traditional Dales' pubs and inns that serve Black Sheep's fine ales.

We have five copies to give away.

Just answer this tough Bar Talk question:

Complete the title of this popular beer-associated nursery rhyme: "Baa Baa Black..."

Send your answer, on a postcard please, to Chris Titley, Baa Baa Competition, The Evening Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York YO1 9YN, by February 5. Usual competition rules apply.

u MANY may argue that there's not much more space for new boozers in York, but the city's brewery has successfully found a quiet corner, in busy Stonegate of all places.

The Yorkshire Terrier opened its doors before Christmas but had its official low-key opening celebration this week. And Bar Talk can confirm that this business is no shaggy dog story.

The bar is tucked behind the York Brewery shop front, which stocks a variety of branded knickknacks, and boasts two main drinking rooms.

Brewery golden boy James Butler is chuffed to bits with the disabled stairlift, while punters will appreciate the winning recipe of good ale in comfortable surroundings.

Updated: 09:20 Saturday, January 29, 2005