The UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide is celebrating its 51st edition and features more than 70 incredible Merseyside pubs and breweries.
The Good Beer Guide, which is published annually by The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), helps beer lovers take a barometer of the local beer scene.
Sevety-two pubs across Merseyside feature in the 2024 edition of the Good Beer Guide, including twelve new entries, as well as 25 local breweries.
Here are all the Liverpool pubs and breweries who made into the beer lovers’ definitive guide and what CAMRA had to say about them.
5. The Bridewell, Campbell Square
The Bridewell has been crowned Liverpool’s best for two years running. CAMRA said: “An imposing, Grade II-listed building that dates from the mid-19th century when it was a police bridewell, or jail. The cells are used as seating areas and provide an unusual focus for the downstairs bar.” Photo: LTV
6. The Augustus John, Peach Street
The Augustus John is a popular little pub, in the heart of Liverpool’s student district. CAMRA said: “Run by the University of Liverpool, the Augustus John is an open-plan pub popular with students, lecturers and locals. The cask ales always include a range of styes, plus there are two ciders on handpump and many more in the cellar. Pizza is served at all times. A jukebox provides entertainment." Photo: Google Street View
7. The Belvedere, Sugnall Street
The Belvedere is on old-school watering hole, in the heart of Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter. CAMRA said: “Redeemed in 2006 from closure for housing development, the Grade II-listed building retains original fixtures and interesting etched glass features. It has a pub with a mixed local clientele, where various small cultural groups meet and good conversation thrives.” Photo: The Belvedere
8. Doctor Duncan’s, St Johns Lane
Doctor Duncan’s is named after William Henry Duncan, the UK’s first Medical Health Officer. The pub, dating back to 1901, was built to house Pearl Insurance and is well known for its elaborately tiled interior. CAMRA said: “This former Cains brewery flagship pub has an impressive Victorian interior consisting of four distinctively different drinking areas.” Photo: User Rodhullandemu via Wikimedia