Good Beer Guide 2026
Published September 2025
The UK’s definitive guidebook to good pubs that serve cask beer 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 cask beer 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.
Nottingham CAMRA’s Entries in The Good Beer Guide
Nottingham Branch contributes to the Nottinghamshire section of the book.
How does Nottingham CAMRA select pubs for The Good Beer Guide?
To be selected each listed pub must consistently serve real ale (and real cider if offered) of good quality. To help us do this, members collect beer quality information through CAMRA’s National Beer Scoring System (NBSS) in which they are asked to contribute scores for pubs throughout the year.
It is easy to score your beers. Log in to CAMRA’s online pub guide, using your membership number and the same password that you use to enter the CAMRA national website. Search for the pub on the main page; (Smartphone users can use the ‘Pubs near me’ tool) and the using the ‘Submit Beer scores’ tab, enter a score for each beer that you drank. Using the Smartphone version you can score your beer in the pub while you drink it!
Having collected hundreds of beer scores over the year, a report is generated giving the average for each pub with a confidence factor based on the number of scores received. The Branch Committee uses this data to draw up a list of eligible pubs with the highest average score, for each sub-division of the branch’s geographical area.
You can help us with the selection process
To make this work better, we need many more members to enter their scores. We value the opinions of all members whether active or not and we need as many opinions as possible for as many pints in as many pubs as possible. This is so we can have confidence in the statistics. We ask members to score the pubs continually not just once or twice. NBSS works across the country not just in our branch. If you are not a member but would like your opinions of beer quality in pubs to count, then please join CAMRA!
If you manage a Pub within the Nottingham Branch area and are interested in promoting the Good Beer Guide and would like more information on the scheme or supporting materials for display in your Pub, please e-mail the Membership Secretary;
