The Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide has named its best pubs across Northern Ireland for 2025. Celebrating its 52nd edition, the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide is the "definitive beer drinker’s guide" for those seeking the best pints in the UK's best pubs. Listing 4,500 of the best pubs across the UK, the guide helps beer lovers take a barometer of the local beer scene.
Information in the Guide is collated by thousands of CAMRA volunteers who give up their time every year to select the best of the best – including 18 of the very best pubs across Northern Ireland. Up one pub from the 2024 guide, The Deer's Head in Belfast city centre is the newest addition to the list. CAMRA Chairman Ash Corbett-Collins said: "CAMRA’s mission is to ensure support from the both the NI Executive and the UK Government protect and promote pubs as the regulated, responsible place to enjoy a drink at the heart of communities - and modernise outdated licensing laws in Northern Ireland so local independent breweries can get a fair crack of the whip against the global brewing giants.
"By next year’s edition of the Guide, we want to be talking about NI’s local beer and pub trade growing with the support of communities, Stormont and Westminster alike.”.