This year’s guide contains 910 newly featured pubs across the UK, which is a fantastic prospect for the pub trade which has been struggling to stay afloat in recent years following the pandemic and rising fuel costs. Local and national ales including high-end brewers, and there is an extensive range of cider, canned craft beer, wine and spirits. Local CAMRA pub of the year 2023. Two Halves The UK beer and pub guide, owned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) surveys 4,500 of the best pubs across Britain and has long been heralded as the best source of information for people seeking the best pints in the nation’s pubs. By the Mile began brewing in 2016 in domestic premises. Brewing is currently suspended. Four Candles Staff at the pubs work hard to ensure that the real ales on offer are kept in first-class condition at all times – and the pubs’ inclusion in the guide highlights this.”

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Busy Wetherspoon in the town centre, taking its name from the Gaelic for Rutherglen. The single room is long and narrow, decorated in a contemporary style. The bar is half way down and there is a family area at the far end leading to the beer garden. There is also a window into the cellar. Earlier this year, figures released by CAMRA showed that pubs in the UK closed at the rate of 30 a week in the first half of the year. The research gathered by its online database Whatpub, and issued as part of CAMRA’s biennial pub closure figures, show that 772 were classed as 'long-term closed' - the highest figure since CAMRA revised its data collection methods in 2021. I’d encourage everyone to use this year’s guide to visit the very best pubs and breweries across the UK and support them for generations to come.” J D Wetherspoon pub and hotel in the historic town of Ruthin. It has 17 guest bedrooms, and the interior is divided into different historic themes: Owain Glyndŵr, the Myddleton family and Ruthin Castle. A feature is the Barrel Room, which mentions a long-defunct brewery on the premises. Durham - Colpitts Hotel and Dun Cow and Half Moon Inn and Head of Steam and Holy Grale and Old Elm Tree and Station House and Victoria Inn and Waiting Room and Woodman Inn

Each of the pubs always offers customers an excellent choice of real ales, including those from local and regional brewers, as well as hosting its own beer festival. Helter Skelter on Church Street in Frodsham is a lively single-room bar and a multiple winner of local CAMRA Pub of the Year awards. With four regular cask ales and a further four changing guest ales from local and national breweries, the bar also serves food together with the upstairs Grill@31 restaurant.I’d encourage everyone to use this year’s guide to visit the very best pubs and breweries across the UK and support them for generations to come.” Here is a round-up of the North East pubs and breweries, across Newcastle, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham, which have made it into the 2024 guide, which is now on sale. CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2024 - North East Northumberland

The Carden Arms on Mount View in Tilston is an impressive rural free house with rug-covered wood floors, traditional furniture and a real fire. Three regular beers - Coach House Gunpowder, Salopian Shropshire Gold and Weetwood Eastgate - are two guests. High quality food is served in the bar and the stylish dining room. One of the most authentic of all the Ramsgate pubs, this is unashamedly a no-frills real ale boozer with a wide selection of beers on draught. There is a military theme throughout Hovelling Boat Inn This year’s Guide contains 910 newly featured pubs, which is a fantastic prospect for the pub trade which has been struggling to stay afloat in recent years following the pandemic and rising fuel costs. The trade also faces an impending threat from unlawful demolitions, which CAMRA has declared a ‘national scandal’ in the wake of the demolition of the Crooked House in Himley. CAMRA's new 2024 guide, published this September 28, showcases top pubs across Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and Durham and, in more good news for the region, it also features 73 local breweries. The annual guide, dubbed 'the beer-drinker's bible', is eagerly awaited each year by both experts in the trade and ordinary beer enthusiasts. Also making the cut this time is The Lower Turk's Head, which is perhaps most recognisable for its tiled frontage, as well as its original chequerboard floor and nooks to sit in, plus its hidden roof terrace. The guide says: "After being closed and lying empty for over 20 years, this pub reopened in 2013 and was acquired by Joseph Holt in 2021.

Wetherspoon’s operations director, Martin Geoghegan, added: “It’s great news that so many of our pubs have been recognised, once again, for the quality of the beer on offer. Nearby on Bridge Street Row East there's also Cavern of the Curious Gnome, a Belgian-themed bar with red and white spotted toadstool seats and a large papier-mache mascot. Four hand pumps serve changing cask ales from all over the UK. Belgian offerings include lambics, gueuzes and Trappist ales, plus Duvel on draught. The last few years have been an incredibly difficult time for the industry, and we need more support than ever before to keep our nation’s pubs and breweries open and thriving. I’d encourage everyone to use this year’s Guide to visit the very best pubs and breweries across the UK and support them for generations to come.” A modestly sized, industrial-styled and welcoming micropub offering a good selection of cask and craft beers alongside cider and the occasional Bavarian beer or two. Red Lion It is our belief that, if a licensee serves an excellent pint of real ale, then everything else in the pub, including customer service, quality of food and atmosphere, is likely to be of an equally high standard.”