More than 85 pubs in North Wales have been named among the best in the UK as part of the 2024 Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide. 

The 2024 guide is the 51st edition and outlines the best places for the "very best pint" across the UK for those keen beer drinkers. 

It reviews 4500 UK pubs and breweries which it recommends visiting for a pint, including 318 in Wales. 

There are 910 newly featured pubs in the 2024 guide which CAMRA said was a "fantastic prospect for the pub trade which has been struggling to stay afloat in recent years following the pandemic and rising fuel costs".

CAMRA Chairman Nik Antona added: “The last few years have been an incredibly difficult time for the industry, and we need more support than ever before to keep our nation’s pubs and breweries open and thriving.

"I’d encourage everyone to use this year’s Guide to visit the very best pubs and breweries across the UK and support them for generations to come.” 

The North Wales pubs in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024

There are 88 North Wales pubs in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024 and 29 breweries.

This includes 20 new entrants to the guide (all pubs).

Some of the pubs named among the UK's best in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024 include:

  • Glynne Arms, Hawarden
  • Market Cross, Holywell
  • Sun Inn, Llangollen
  • Mold Alehouse, Mold
  • Bar 236, Prestatyn
  • Dove at Rhyl, Rhyl
  • Acton Park, Wrexham
  • Black Bull Inn, Bangor
  • Black Boy Inn, Caernarfon
  • Pen-y-Bryn, Colwyn Bay
  • Bay Hop, Colwyn Bay
  • Bank of Conwy, Conwy
  • Cottage Loaf, Llandudno
  • Liverpool Arms, Menai Bridge
  • Australia, Porthmadog

The full list of pubs in North Wales among the best for a pint in the UK can be found in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2024, which can be purchased via their website. 

Glamorgan boasts the most pubs in Wales to make the guide with 92, including 15 new entries.

Gwent had 39 pubs in the 2024 guide, West Wales had 70, while Powys/Mid Wales had 29.

The CAMRA Good Beer Guide – the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide – 2024 is the 51st edition and has a striking cover and a foreword supplied by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson.

Dickinson in his foreword, CAMRA says "shines a spotlight on the cultural tradition of pubs within the United Kingdom, the importance of protecting the heritage, charm and welcoming nature of pubs and clubs, and not taking them for granted".