The Good Beer Guide 2023: 50th Edition

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Three Tuns in Lower Halstow, near Sittingbourne Right on the roadside in Lower Halstow, The Three Tuns was serving ale to local folk long before cars were using The Street (60692917) In total the Guide contains 146 Kent pubs. New to this year's guide... The Alma in Painters Forstall The 50th anniversary edition of the guide has a foreword by King Charles, who said pubs played a vital role during the pandemic, going above and beyond to supply meals to isolating households, selling necessities such as bread and milk and trying to counter loneliness through virtual events and quizzes. It is our belief that, if a licensee serves an excellent pint of real ale, then everything else in the pub, including customer service, quality of food and atmosphere, is likely to be of an equally high standard.” In total, 200 of the company’s pubs are listed in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2023, the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide.

The Good Beer Guide is a book published annually by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) listing what it considers to be the best 4,500 real ale outlets ( pubs, clubs, and off-licences) in the United Kingdom. [1] Details [ edit ] First edition in 1974 We put theirs on and sometimes it will go in one night and the same with Oakham, it's a very popular beer for us, but they like Bristol Beer Factory and Twisted Wheel. It's giving people a choice really." Queen’s Inn in Hawkhurst, near Tunbridge Wells The Golden Lion sits right at the heart of the village of Luddesdown Each of the pubs always offers customers an excellent choice of real ales, including those from local and regional brewers, as well as hosting its own beer festival.

Wetherspoon’s pubs across the UK have been acclaimed for the quality of their real ale – by members of their respective Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) branches. Another pub to be added to the guide after only being open a short amount of time is Three Sheets to the Wind in Rochester.

The Good Beer Guide has always had an important role in acting as a barometer of the beer and pub industry. We believe information gleaned from the Guide is absolutely vital in the drive to save our pubs from closure and campaign for policies that better support pubs, local brewers and their customers. After two long stints as Editor, Roger Protz announced in autumn 2017 that the 2018 Guide would be his last. CAMRA stated that from the 2019 Guide it would carry the name of the managing editor. Rather than a professionally published volume, it was a collection of sheets of paper stapled together and posted out to CAMRA members. [5] The Little Gem is run by Ollie Aubrey, who is also in charge at the Walnut Tree in Maidstone - another new pub to have made the guide this year. As well as the ‘Famous Five’ (Pubs who have been included in the Good Beer Guide since the first edition) there are a number of other pubs out there that are on a massive streak for inclusion in The Good Beer Guide.More than 4,500 pubs were surveyed by independent volunteers with 387 pubs across the West Midlands region covered as part of this year’s guide. CAMRA also takes into account brewery numbers, noting that the West Midlands lost nine breweries over the past twelve months. The family-run pub opened in April last year on Rochester High Street, selling Austrian and Kent beers to reflect the owners’ heritage.