Pubs in Brent and Harrow have been featured in the Campaign for Real Ale's Good Beer Guide 2025 as selling the best pints.
The Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) yesterday published its annual roundup of the watering holes most likely to serve you a great pint.
Founded in 1971, the campaign represents beer drinkers and pub-goers across the UK, promoting quality real ale, cider and perry and supporting and encouraging the beer and pub trade.
The Good Beer Guide 2025 serves as a compass to find the perfect places to savour a well kept, well poured beer across the UK.
We are sharing with readers, and pub fans, the 10 pubs with best beers chosen in the two boroughs.
BRENT
CRICKLEWOOD
Beaten Docket - Cricklewood Broadway
A Wetherspoon pub named after a losing betting ticket. Framed prints reflect the racing link, which was a feature of this area in the late 19th century.
It is described as having “intimate” booths to drink within as well as a “pleasant atmosphere”.
KILBURN
Black Lion - Kilburn High Road
Opposite the Kiln Theatre, this Grade II*-listed building, is identified by CAMRA as having a nationally important historic interior, which they say is worth a visit "for its fantastic interior decor alone".
The pub won Camra's pub design award in 2023.
Cask beer and cider returned in 2022, after when London Village Inns, took over and installed three handpumps.
Kilburn Park
Carlton Tavern - Carlton Vale
This pub on Brent's border became famous across the UK after the developer who had demolished it illegally was forced by Westminster Council to rebuild it "brick by brick" from original plans.
Much was salvaged from the wreckage, including tiles, reusable bricks, the original bar and fireplaces and some of the decorative ceilings.
It was a local Camra Pub of the Year in 2022.
COLINDALE
Moon Under Water - Varley Parade, Edgware Road
A large Wetherspoon family pub converted from a Woolworth store in 1990.
The back is mainly for food while the front is the more traditional drinking and chatting. The silent TVs show either news or racing.
KINGSBURY
J.J. Moon’s - Kingsbury Road
A Wetherspoon shop conversion dating from 1988 has low ceilings, lots of wood panelling, subdued lighting and a raised section at the rear. Camra says it is "a rare outlet for real ale" in this part of outer London.
HARROW
Eastcote Village
Woodman - Joel Street, Pinner
Overlooking the Eastcote cricket club, this Grade II-listed, two-bar former Harman’s pub dates from the 1640s, and was extended in 2005 and refurbished in 2021.
There's a large function room with a bar and a patio style covered garden.
HARROW ON THE HILL
The Castle - West Street
Built in 1901 and Grade II listed, the Castle has been identified by Camra as having a nationally important historic pub interior.
Three real coal fires help to keep the pub warm and cosy in the colder months, and a secluded beer garden is popular during the summer.
Local CAMRA Pub of the Year 2022.
RUISLIP
Hop & Vine - High Street
A micropub converted from a cafe´ , with seating at low tables with chairs and benches.
The small bar counter dispenses four real ales, four keg beers and two ciders from a temperature-controlled cellar room behind it.
Woodman - Breakspear Road
A cheerful and welcoming two-bar local close to Ruislip Lido and woods has been identified by Camra as having a nationally important historic pub interior.
The lounge bar is open-plan with a dartboard and games machine.
A street food truck on Friday evening changes weekly.
Winner of the Stars of Stonegate Pub of the Year 2022 award.
RUISLIP MANOR
J.J. Moon’s - Victoria Road
This popular Wetherspoon pub has a small garden patio, while the front
has a partitioned-off smoking area on the street.
It was a Local CAMRA Pub of the Year in 2022.
Full reviews of 4,516 pubs across the UK are available in the guide.
Now in its 52nd edition, this year's copy is available with covers featuring either Coronation Street’s Rovers Return Inn, and Emmerdale’s Woolpack.
Camra's Good Beer Guide 2025 is available for £16.99 from https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/the-good-beer-guide-2025/ and booksellers nationwide.
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