Keighley and the Aire Valley is becoming a craft brewers paradise.

Another micro brewery, based in Keighley, is the latest to join the stable of micro breweries which get a mention in The Good Beer Guide.

Bridgehouse, set up in March by Grahame Reynoldson, in Pitt Street, Keighley, is one of seven new breweries from Yorkshire included in the 2011 edition published today.

The ten-barrel brewery produces six beers including a Best bitter, Buffers bitter, Barn Stormer Headshunt stout and Diken Gold and Tyke bitter.

The Keighley and Craven area now boasts at least six craft breweries, excluding the award-winning much bigger regional leader Timothy Taylor and the larger “micro” brewery Copper Dragon at Skipton.

On the list of small-scale outfits are Goose Eye at Ingrow, Keighley, the Old Bear in Pitt Street, Keighley, Naylors at Cross Hills, Old Spot at Cullingworth, the Dark Horse at Hetton and Litton brewery at Litton, both near Skipton.

Bradford is home to Salamander brewery in Dudley Hill and Saltaire has its own brewery, as does Ilkley.

Most of these real ales can be sampled at Keighley Beer Festival which is being held from September 23 to 25 at Victoria Hall, Keighley.

Lynda Smith, membership secretary of Keighley & Craven branch of CAMRA, said: “We are very lucky to have so many craft breweries producing such good beer and it’s great to have another set up in the area.

“It shows that though the industry is having problems, there is still a market for cask beers.”

The Good Beer Guide reports that 79 new breweries have opened in the past year, seven from Yorkshire including Bridgehouse, Ridgeside in Leeds and WharfeBank, in Pool.

Yorkshire also celebrates another piece of brewing history with the re-launch of Barnsley Bitter, last brewed in the 1970s.

Guide editor Roger Protz said:“The real ale revolution goes on in.

“The breweries section of the Guide is full of stories of small craft breweries that are booming and growing.”