Home Food Restaurant Reviews Recipes Drink Distilleries Whisky Gin Craft Beer Locations Scran Podcast The Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide is celebrating its 52nd edition with the publication of the 2025 Good Beer Guide. To mark the milestone, the popular guide has two covers featuring two of the UK’s favourite locals: Coronation Street’s Rovers Return Inn, and Emmerdale’s Woolpack. The Guide, which lists 4,500 of the best pubs across the UK is on sale now and a whopping 314 pubs in Scotland feature, including 52 new entries.
The Scottish pubs and bars are part of over 900 featured in the 2025 Good Beer Guide. Despite the tough trading environment facing a lot of licensees, these businesses continue to battle against the odds. 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 across the UK.
As well as covering 314 of the very best pubs across Aberdeen & Grampian, Argyll & The Isles, Ayrshire & Arran, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh & The Lothians, Greater Glasgow & Clyde Valley, Highlands & The Western Isles, Kingdom of Fife, Loch Lomond, Stirling & The Trossachs, Northern Isles and Tayside, it includes 52 new pub entries across the counties. The foreword of The Good Beer Guide 2025 has been written by multi award-winning Iain Macleod, ITV’s Executive Producer for Continuing Drama. In his foreword, MacLeod says: “.
..the story which threatened one of our pubs.
