Good Beer Guide 2025
The Good Beer Guide Pubs, Clubs and Breweries around MK & North Bucks
Station Tavern
Woburn Sands
Nag's Head
Great Linford
M K Biergarten
Wolverton
Ship Ashore
Willen
Wheatsheaf
Maids Moreton
Green Man
Mursley
Mitre
Buckingham
Stratton Arms
Turweston
Bell & Bear
Emberton
Frog & Nightgown
Newport Pagnell
Stony Stratford Conservative Club
Stony Stratford
Victoria Inn
Bradwell Village
Lamb
Stoke Goldington
Blackened Sun Brewery Tap
Stacey Bushes
Withdrawn Entry
Ousebank House in Newport Pagnell has been subsequently withdrawn from the Good Beer Guide due to use of misleading dispense.
About the Good Beer Guide
About The Guide
It's the 52nd edition of the best-selling beer and pub guide produced by CAMRA, with a foreword from BAFTA award-winning producer Iain MacLeod alongside consumer features, industry analysis and a comprehensive guide to hundreds of UK breweries too!
As always, our nominees were curated from the highest scoring establishments on WhatPub, CAMRA’s members' scoring portal which allows all members to score the quality of every real ale they drink and might ensure their local is included in the Good Beer Guide in the future.
Congratulations once again to all of our entries – here’s to another fantastic edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide!
Look back on our Branch's GBG Book LaunchGet Your Copy
The Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide – the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide – is celebrating its 52nd edition with not one but two covers featuring two of the UK’s favourite locals: Coronation Street’s Rovers Return Inn, and Emmerdale’s Woolpack - two pubs that represent the familiarity and community spirit of pubs across the UK!
Buy Your CopyWant to get your local pub or club in the Good Beer Guide?
Get Scoring!
If you want to help the Branch choose the GBG pubs, get out and get scoring! Head to over the CAMRA website and start scoring your beer.
You will find guidance on what you need to do if it's your first time or are unsure.
CAMRA Experience ScoringSelection Process
CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide lists those pubs which consistently serve the best real ale. All pubs across our Milton Keynes and North Bucks area which serve real ale are eligible to be included. In making our final selection for pubs in GBG (up to the number we are allocated - currently 15) we only use the evidence of beer quality in our pubs provided by CAMRA members over the last 12 month using CAMRA’s National Beer Scoring System – which they mostly submit through CAMRA Experience.
We do not do any further surveying of beer quality because:
- This eliminates any local bias and the decision does not simply use scores awarded by a few people in a one-off survey.
- Our GBG pubs must have consistent quality over the whole year, not just on the surveyors’ visit.
- To further ensure that pubs are chosen in a fair way a minimum of 15 scores by at least 5 different members must have been completed that year.
To see the document setting out the full agreed process, please visit Branch process for selecting GBG pubs, 2025.