CAMRA Good Beer Guide: Bradford pubs and breweries make the cut

The prestigious guide features the very best pubs to find a great pint in the UK – and there’s plenty to choose from right on our doorstep.

The Good Beer Guide, which is published annually by CAMRA, helps beer lovers take a barometer of the local beer scene.

Salt Beer Factory and Kitchen (Image: Newsquest)

Here are those in the district featured in the guide: Baildon – Junction; Bingley - Chip N Ern, Peacock Bar; Bradford - Boar & Fable, Corn Dolly, Exchange Craft Beer House, Fighting Cock, Jacobs Well, Record Café, Sparrow; Brighouse - Crafty Fox, Market Tavern; Eccleshill - Greedy Pig; Goose Eye - Turkey Inn; Greengates - Cracker Barrel; Guiseley – Coopers, Guiseley Factory Workers Club; Haworth - Fleece Inn; Horsforth - Granville’s Beer & Gin House; Ilkley - Bar T’at, Flying Duck; Keighley - Brown Cow; Liversedge - Black Bull; Oakworth - Oakworth Social Club, Snooty Fox; Otley - Black Horse, Junction Inn, Old Cock; Oxenhope - Bay Horse, Dog & Gun Inn; Pudsey - Manor Inn, Fleece; Saltaire - Cap & Collar, SALT Bar & Kitchen, Salt Cellar; Scholes - Stafford Arms; Shipley – Fox, Hullabaloo, Sir Norman Rae; Stanbury - The Friendly, Wuthering Heights Inn; Thackley - Black Rat; Thornton – Watchmaker; Wibsey - Hooper Micropub.

The following breweries are also featured: Amity, Farsley; BEEspoke, Shipley; Bingley, Wilsden; Bini, Ilkley; Bone Idle, Idle; Bridgehouse, Keighley; Briscoe’s, Otley; Chevin, Otley; Cobbydale, Silsden; Ghost, Baildon; Goose Eye, Crossflatts; Horsforth; Ilkley; Junction, Baildon; Marlowe, Otley; Old Spot, Cullingworth; Salt, Shipley; Saltaire; Shadow, Otley; Stubbee, Dudley Hill; Tartarus, Horsforth; Timothy Taylor, Keighley; Wharfedale, Ilkley; Wishbone, Keighley.

As well as covering 401 of the very best pubs across Yorkshire, it also keeps track of brewery numbers.

While 10 new breweries have opened over the last year, 10 have closed their doors.

CAMRA National Chairman Nik Antona said: “For nearly five decades, the Good Beer Guide has been a comprehensive guide to the UK’s breweries, their ales, and the best outlets to find them in across the country.   

“Whilst we experienced a boom in the brewing industry over recent years, it’s clear that the effects of Covid-19 and subsequent cost of living and cost of goods crisis has been keenly felt. I’d encourage everyone to use this Guide to seek out the very best examples of pub excellence and support these locals by visiting them.”  

The guide can be purchased via CAMRA’s website.