34 pubs in Preston, Chorley, and Penwortham named in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2027

The UK has always been a proud nation of drinkers - but if this year’s Good Beer Guide is anything to go by, there’s never been a better time to be a beer lover in Preston.

The Good Beer Guide is the publicans’ Bible released each year by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale.

It lists the top pubs and bars across the nation based on its volunteers’ ratings of beer quality, environment, service, and others, and this year features a whopping 34 pubs in Preston, Chorley, and South Ribble, plus another nine across West Lancashire.

“The main thing about CAMRA is promoting good quality beer and the pubs that sell it,” Central Lancashire CAMRA chairman Adrian Smith told the Lancashire Evening Post.

“Once a year, we get to put together the list of the pubs across the country that sell the best beer. I think we get better every year at refining the selection, but getting the best of the best is always a challenge.

“It’s great that we’ve got so many good pubs that are deserving of getting in there, because if they weren’t good enough, we wouldn’t put them in.”

Some of the pubs included in this year’s edition are long-time staples of the Good Beer Guide.

Both the Guild and Ale House in Preston and the Red Lion in Wheelton are both set to receive the Dave Linley Award for 10 years in the guide.

Also included in this year’s list is a host of first-time winners, including the Sir Tom Finney in Penwortham and the Our Lady and St. Gerard’s Parochial Centre in Lostock Hall.

“If we didn’t have enough good pubs, we wouldn’t put them in,” Adrian said. “The fact that we could pull up with 43, and the fact we could have come up with another 10 or 15 that are good enough, just shows how good the beer is around here.

“We start looking at beer scores as soon as the guide is out - we work almost one year to the next. But it’s very important to us because it’s our way of saying to a select number of pubs out there, ‘You’re doing a really food job’. “

See the full list of Lancashire’s best pubs and bars below:

Adlington

- The Old Post Office

- The Spinners Arms

Bamber Bridge

- The Beer Box

Banks

- Ralph’s Wife’s

Burscough

- The Thirsty Duck

Chorley

- Baaa 38

- Ben’s Tap

- The Flat Iron

- Inn the Dog House

- Malt ‘n’ Hops

- The Mason’s Arms

- Riley’s Taproom and Wine Bar

- Shepherds’ Hall Alehouse and Victoria Rooms

Croston

- Wheatsheaf

Lathom

- The Ship Inn

Leyland

- The Golden Tap Ale House

- The Market Ale House

Lostock Hall

- Lostock Ale

- Our Lady and St. Gerard’s Parochial Centre

Ormskirk

- Cricketers

- The Kicking Donkey

- The Prince Albert

- Tap Room No. 12

Penwortham

- The Sir Tom Finney

- The Tap and Vine

Preston

- The Black Horse

- The Chain House Brewing Co. Taproom

- Crafty Beggars Ale House

- Fulwood and Broughton Cricket Club

- Guild Ale House

- Moorbrook

- The New Continental

- The Old Vic

- Orchard

- Plugs and Taps

- The Tap End

- The Vinyl Tap

- Winckley Street Ale House

Rivington

- The Rivington Brewery Co. Tap

Rufford

- The Hesketh Arms

- The Vestry Tap Room

- The Red Lion