Good Beer Guide 2027
Published September 2026
The 54th edition comes with a foreword from bestselling crime writer Sir Ian Rankin, whose detective Rebus drinks at The Oxford Bar in Edinburgh, the pub on this year’s cover.
Inside there are over 4,500 recommended pubs and clubs across the UK, along with listings for over 1,500 breweries and 5,000 beers. 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!
Pub Support
If you are a publican and want to increase awareness of the Beer scoring process to encourage your customers to score your beers, we can help!
The image to the right below is available in two versions as a PDF download, click on the links below.
If you are a CAMRA member, you can access a specific scoring poster that is customised to your venue, with a QR code that takes the customer directly to the beer scoring option for your pub. In order to do this, please follow these steps:
- Find your pub on the national site, camra.org.uk/pubs
- Go to the “Beer Score” logo and click the + next to it.
- This brings up a drop down selection and at the bottom is a “Download NBSS Poster” (image as shown below)
- The poster is then generated with a QR code for the pub
Resources available to help promote beer scoring:
If you have any questions regarding the GBG or beer scoring process, please e-mail:
membership@nottingham.camra.org.uk
