Good Beer Guide
The UK’s definitive guidebook to good pubs that serve real ale across the UK. Refreshed and updated for its 53rd edition, it is fully revised and features recommended pubs across the United Kingdom that serve the best real ale as well as a comprehensive listing of UK breweries. This is the complete book for beer lovers and for anyone wanting to experience the UK’s finest pubs. The Good Beer Guide is completely independent, with listings based entirely on evaluation by CAMRA members. The foreword for this year’s guide has been penned by Ed Byrne, comedian and beer lover. Famous for his #preshowpints on social media, he has posted about the various bars and breweries he has sampled around the UK prior to his shows.
The process for selecting pubs for inclusion in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide (GBG) is a continual process and we need members from across the region to help us gather information about the beer quality in them, preferably by scoring their beers.
Beer scores recorded on CAMRA’s national database – via WhatPub or the GBG app if you’ve downloaded it – are used to compile a shortlist of pubs eligible for consideration, and we need more beer scores for more pubs, particularly those in suburban and rural areas of the branch.
In order to help members with this, Bristol & District will be running minibus trips – probably one per month – to pubs in areas of the branch that are difficult to access by public transport. Many of these more remote pubs receive fewer beer scores than pubs in more populated areas – so we rely on these trips and your scores to help us decide which could be GBG contenders.
We will also be arranging pub walks and trips using public transport to areas closer to the centre of Bristol.
So take a look at the branch diary to see what is currently arranged over the next few months, and come along if you can. As well as assessing beer quality, these events are a great way of socialising and visiting pubs you may not otherwise get to.
Equally, if you are drinking in your local or elsewhere in the country it would be helpful if you could remember to score beers you drink.
Branches across the country use similar methods to select pubs, so you will helping in the compilation of the next Good Beer Guide.