On the 26th September, MK CAMRA held a social at the Bell & Bear, Emberton to celebrate the launch of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2025.

The Good Beer Guide is CAMRA’s seminal publication featuring 4,500 of the UK’s best real-ale pubs, in rural and urban areas.

Entries from Milton Keynes & North Bucks

• Station Tavern, Woburn Sands
• Nags Head, Great Linford
• MK Biergarten, Wolverton
• Ship Ashore, Willen
• Wheatsheaf, Maids Moreton
• Ousebank House, Newport Pagnell
• Green Man, Mursley
• Mitre, Buckingham
• Stratton Arms, Turweston
• Bell and Bear, Emberton
• Frog and Nightgown, Newport Pagnell
• Conservative Club, Stony Stratford
• Victoria Inn, Bradwell Village
• The Lamb, Stoke Goldington
• Blackened Sun, Stacey Bushes

Pick up your copy of The Good Beer Guide here.

About The Good Beer Guide

Now in its’ 52nd edition, CAMRA’s publication is the best-selling beer and pub guide 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!

Want to get your local in the Good Beer Guide?

If you want to help the Branch choose the GBG pubs, get out and get scoring! Head to WhatPub, login and score beer.
You will see guidance on what you need to do if you aren’t sure.

Can’t score your beer because you aren’t a CAMRA member? Join CAMRA here.