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.

Selection 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.