Good Beer Guide 2026
The Good Beer Guide Pubs, Clubs and Breweries around MK & North Bucks
Blackened Sun Brewery Tap
Stacey Bushes
Mitre
Buckingham
Club Hanslope
Hanslope
Bell & Bear
Emberton
Stony Stratford Conservative Club
Stony Stratford
Station Tavern
Woburn Sands
Chequers
Fenny Stratford
Captain Ridley's Shooting Party
Bletchley
New Inn
Bletchley
Wetherspoons
Central Milton Keynes
Green Man
Mursley
Cannon
Newport Pagnell
Wheatsheaf
Maids Moreton
Ship Ashore
Willen
White Hart
Sherington
About the Good Beer Guide
About The Guide
Now in its’ 53rd 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!
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The UK’s definitive guidebook to good pubs that serve real ale across the UK. Refreshed and updated for 2026, it is fully revised and features recommended pubs across the United Kingdom that serve the best real ale as well as a comprehensive listing of UK breweries.
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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.