The Branch for the 2025 edition has an allocation of no more than 22 entries in the Good Beer Guide.

Short-listing

The Branch uses the National Beer Scoring System to assist in short-listing the pub/club for survey,

The pub/club should have received:-

20 scores
10 visits (different dates)
5 surveyors
An average score above 3
80% of scores above 3

The pub/club should not have received more than three scores under 2.

Members attending the meeting are asked to survey the pubs and clubs who meet that criteria. If nobody offers to survey a particular pub, the GBG Co-ordinator may ask someone who has not attended the meeting. The Branch may survey as many pubs as it wishes to but they must ideally meet the above criteria by the time of the final selection meeting.

Final Selection

The selection is done by members who attend the final selection meeting.

Members agree on the pubs/clubs to be selected. They are guided by the beer scores submitted, the advice of the surveyor and anyone else who has visited the establishment in the past year. In general, if a pub has met the criteria then normally it is selected. If there is an objection then the Branch will return to the pub/club later in the meeting. The Branch should attempt to create a geographic balance, avoiding concentrating all the selection in one town/area. The Branch should also be minded not to overload our allocation with too many pubs from the same pubco, and also to achieve a healthy measure of ‘churn’ between one issue and the next, in areas where several pubs may be in contention.

For those pubs were there are objections, cases are put and a vote taken. The meeting may decide to submit fewer entries than the notional maximum allocation and/or to submit up to three reserve entries, in order of priority, for consideration at regional level.