Pubs in the Oswestry Area are celebrating after being recognised CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide.
Multiple pubs in the area made it to this year’s guide which “is the definitive beer drinker’s guide for those seeking the best pints in the nations’ pubs”.
The Bailey Head made the guide for an eighth year in a row topping off a hugely successful year which has seen them already pick up multiple CAMRA awards earlier.
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Grace Goodlad, landlady of The Bailey Head said; “It is great to be included in the Good Beer Guide again and we know that it brings many beer tourists to us and as a result to Oswestry. Duncan and I are absolutely delighted to be in the Guide again”
Her husband Duncan Borrowman added: “It is very appropriate that the West Midlands launch of the Good Beer Guide is happening at Shrewsbury Beer Festival this week, as we are one of the festival sponsors and gave our expertise and services cleaning all the beer lines for the bar handpulls.”
Oswestry’s Stonehouse Brewery were also delighted to make the guide again for the brewery and the visitor centre bar.
Director of the Brewery, Alison Parr said: “We at Stonehouse have a passionate brewery team who work in conjunction with the bar staff to ensure that the quality of our beer is always spot on and it is testament to all their efforts that we have achieved entry into the CAMRA Good Beer Guide once again.”
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In Ellesmere, Landlady of the Grade II listed White Hart, Beth Rees was full of pride after she made the guide only a year after taking over.
“I’ve only been a landlady for a year,” said Beth. “I only just started dealing with real ales. I’m just so proud of my team and myself. I had worked in the White Hart under the previous landlord’s management and he trained me up to where I am now.
“We use three different breweries each month and continually change them.”
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Steve Kennedy the landlord of the Swan Inn in Pontfadog on the other hand was celebrating after reaching it every year since he took over.
“We have made the good beer guide every year for the last seven years,” said Steve. “You do, once in a while, get a big mini bus of CAMRA people who come out and test out our real ales.
“We are a 16th Century Inn, we always have two cask ales on, which we used ot change quite a lot but we have settled down to about four.”
They were joined by Froncysylte’s Acqueduct Inn, which was praised as a “welcoming freehouse” with “panoramic views” of the Llangollen canal.
In Llansilin, the 200-year-old Wynnstay Inn reached the guide for the first time much to the delight of Nia Lloyd and her business Thirst Quenchers.
She said: “Thirst Quenchers at the Wynnstay Inn, Llansilin are delighted to be included in the 2025 Good Beer guide for the first time this year, and we look forward to welcoming old and new customers to the Wynnstay to sample our choice of beers.”
They were joined by the Dolphin Inn in Llanymynech which made it this year being praised for its “wells sourced beers” and “refuge” of a beer garden.
For more information, you can purchase the 2025 Good Beer guide here
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