East Anglia's booming beer scene

The local brewing and pub scene in East Anglia is booming, according to the Good Beer Guide 2020, CAMRA's premier publication featuring the very best pubs to find a great pint in the UK.

It reports that across the region there are 11 new breweries including Cambridgeshire's Roughacre Brewery and Wylde Sky Brewing, Norfolk's Fengate Brewery and Suffolk's Stansfield Ales and Weird Sisters Brewery. Good news for beer lovers in the region wanting to treat their wedding guests to a local ale or two!

The Good Beer Guide, which reviews over 4,500 pubs across the UK, is the definitive beer drinkers' guide to the very best pints. Compiled by thousands of independent volunteers, it helps identify significant trends and themes locally and nationally. Tom Stainer, CAMRA's chief executive said, "For nearly five decades, the Good Beer Guide has been a comprehensive guide to the UK's breweries, their ales, and the best outlets to find them in across the country. What makes the guide unique is that all the entries are compiled and vetted by a huge volunteer team, based around the country. We work hard to ensure that all areas of the country are covered and inclusion in the book is dependent only on merit, not on payment.
"The guide has always had an important role in acting as a barometer of the beer and pub industry. We believe information gleaned from it is absolutely vital in the drive to save our pubs from closure and campaign for policies that better support pubs, local brewers and their customers." To find out more visit www.camra.org.uk

(Pictured:The Red Lion, Preston named one of the best pubs in the UK)