More than 25 pubs in Powys 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 Powys pubs in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024

There are 29 Powys pubs in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024 and eight breweries.

This includes 6 new entrants to the guide (five pubs and one brewery).

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

  • Abermule Inn, Abermule
  • Horesehoe Inn, Arddleen
  • Fountain Inn, Builth Wells
  • Oak Inn, Guilsfield
  • Kerry Lamb, Kerry
  • Watson's Ale House, Knighton
  • Goat Hotel, Llanfair Caereinion
  • Cain Valley Hotel, Llanfyllin
  • Angel Hotel, Llanidloes
  • Dragon Hotel, Montgomery
  • Brew Hub, Newtown
  • Old Bakehouse, Welshpool

The full list of pubs in Powys 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, North East Wales had 42, North West Wales 46 and West Wales 70.

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".