Sadly, there's no such thing as an on-line Good Beer Guide - yet. In the meantime, here's the next best thing.
This is just a list of links to other folks' sites. It came about some years ago after lengthy discussion in the uk.food+drink.real-ale newsgroup. Most of us rely on guide books like CAMRA's Good Beer Guide to help us find decent beer and decent pubs around the country, but it takes a long time to compile and publish printed guide books. Their information is usually six months old before the book reaches the shops. Each edition is supposedly valid for a year, so the information can be 18 months old before it's updated. One alternative would be an on-line GBG but that doesn't exist yet. On the other hand, many CAMRA branches, and some individual members and non-members of the Campaign for Real Ale, produce and update their own local Guides. This page is to help you find them on the Web.
These days, CAMRA does offer an amendments page for the GBG, where you can at least find details of corrections and deletions for the current (2009) Good Beer Guide, and indeed for the last three editions.
Suggestions for new entries to this list are welcome, but please note that it is primarily about finding real ale - Britain's traditional beer. Food, music, the quality of the darts players and the charms of the barmaids are all secondary considerations. You'll find a definition of real ale on the Ask if it's Cask website.
The following are not local guides but you may find them helpful.
Real Ale Hunter, an interactive map and database for pubs offering cask ale.
The Real Ale And A Bed site includes a search facility.
If you like German beer, check out The British Guide to German Beer. There's also a London Guide to Belgian Beer which has limited coverage of Belgian beer outlets beyond the metropolis.
All About Pubs is a very useful guide to the pub business, with an extensive search facility.
The Beer in the Evening site is a good database of pubs, easily searchable, with comments and ratings submitted by drinkers all over the country.
There's now a similar site at Pub Utopia; it's not been going as long so isn't comprehensive yet but it often tells you whether a pub is known to stock cask ale or just keg.
You can even browse the on-line version of the Good Pub Guide.
And the people at welovelocal.com have launched their own on-line pub directories, featuring "top rated pubs as chosen by members of welovelocal.com". They currently focus on Birmingham, Brighton, Leeds and Manchester.
Finally, Craig Cockburn publishes a list of Scottish pubs with smoke free areas. It's a little academic now that all pubs in the UK are smoke free by law (indoors at any rate), but it's an interesting archive of the all too recent past anyway.
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