Windsor & Eton Express

Pubs and breweries in Good Beer Guide

East Berkshire: Campaign for Real Ale reveals 2022 edition

- By Kieran Bell kieranb@baylismedi­a.co.uk @KieranB_BM

Pubs across East Berkshire and South Bucks have once again been recognised in a Good Beer Guide compiled by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

Watering holes and breweries across the two counties have been praised for their resilience in the pandemic, during a time when hospitalit­y was hit hard by lockdown restrictio­ns.

CAMRA is a not-for-profit consumer group championin­g UK pubs and breweries, with more than 160,000 members.

The 2022 Guide – complete with a foreword by musician James Blunt – is the 49th published, with 26 new pubs listed from the Thames Valley this year, which includes Oxfordshir­e.

Six of these are in Berkshire and seven in Buckingham­shire.

Nationally, it also contains 1,902 independen­t UK breweries, up from 1,816 last year, which represents the highest number of breweries recorded in the guide.

Four of these new breweries are located in Berkshire.

CAMRA’s national chairman Nik Antona said: “After the struggles of the past 18 months for the industry, it is great that

The Good Beer Guide figures are showing the resilience of pubs and brewers in the face of strife. However, the industry is still vulnerable in the aftermath of COVID-19 lockdowns.”

Blunt, who also owns a pub in Chelsea, added: “Whilst, in recent years, there might have been a trend for people to drink cheap supermarke­t beer at home, those people have been locked away for the best part of a year, and now those people want out.

“They can taste real beer from the tap, and food cooked by a pro, and they can meet legally and joyfully.”

The Good Beer Guide 2022 is available from the CAMRA shop at bit.ly/30BLGHa, and there is an app version available for download on iOS and Android.

Drinking establishm­ents in our area which have made it

on to the Good Beer Guide 2022:

■ The Swan, Mill Lane, Clewer

■ The George Inn, Eton

■ The Barleycorn, Lower Cippenham Lane, Cippenham

■ The Moon and Spoon, High Street, Slough

■ A Hoppy Place, St Leonard's Road, Windsor

■ The Acre, Victoria Street, Windsor

■ The Carpenter's Arms, Market Street, Windsor

■ The Corner Ale and Cider

House, Sheet Street, Windsor

■ Windsor and Eton Brewery Taproom, Vansittart Estate, Windsor

■ The Windsor Trooper, St Leonard's Road, Windsor

■ The Perseveran­ce, High Street, Wraysbury

■ The Black Horse, Slough Road, Iver Heath

Breweries:

■ moogBREW, Ye Meads, Taplow

■ Windsor and Eton Brewery, Vansittart Estate, Windsor

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A Hoppy Place in Windsor features in the Good Beer Guide 2022.
Ref:133422-4 A Hoppy Place in Windsor features in the Good Beer Guide 2022.

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