- Nationwide brewery numbers have increased after a drop last year, showing the highest number of breweries on record
- Foreword this year written by singer and publican James Blunt, who encourages consumers to support their local pubs
- Different regions reporting mixed bag of closures and reopenings two years on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic
- Brewers not out of the woods yet, with issues around costs of goods, lack of business rate relief and Small Brewers’ Relief reform
CAMRA have published the 49th edition of the best-selling The Good Beer Guide, with contributors encouraging readers to support their local pubs and breweries in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Good Beer Guide is CAMRA’s premier publication, featuring the very best pubs to find a great pint in the UK. Nationally, the 2022 Guide has found the total number of independent UK breweries has risen to 1,902 in 2021 from 1,816 in 2020* – showing the highest number of breweries recorded in the Guide since publication began in 1974, and a national increase after recording the first decline in brewery numbers since 2008 in the previous edition. However, while 138 breweries have opened this year and are newly listed in the Guide, 75 have closed, with some regions reporting higher or equal numbers of closures compared to new breweries.
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