Camra Good Beer Guide 2026: Five Eastbourne pubs included

The guide is the "definitive guidebook" to pubs that serve great cask beer across the UK, and uses an independent, volunteer-led selection process that makes it the authoritative and trusted voice of cask beer drinkers.

Here are the five Eastbourne pubs included in the guide.

Cornfield Garage: 21-23 Cornfield Road

The guide says: "A large, extremely popular, single-storey town-centre pub which has kept the name of the former car showroom and workshop built in 1926.

"It opened as a Wetherspoon’s in 1999 and was later extended to the rear."

The Crown: 22 Crown Street

The guide says: "Worth seeking out in the Old Town area is this traditional popular pub, a regular entry in the guide.

"With plenty of welcoming indoor space the surprise is the large secure sunny garden through the pub and up the stairs at the back."

The Crown, on Crown Street(Image: Google)

Lamb Inn: 36 High Street

The guide says: "Warm and welcoming 12th-century pub with three rooms where you can enjoy good-quality food and beers.

"There are four comfortable rooms in which you can stay in on a B&B basis."

London and County: 46 Terminus Road

The guide says: "Wetherspoon’s pub directly opposite Eastbourne railway station and close to town centre bus stops.

"The building is a former London and County Bank, then National Westminster Bank, built in 1880."

Victoria Hotel: 27 Latimer Road

The guide says: "With its high ceiling, flock wallpaper and wooden bar with glasses shelf supported by turned wooden pillars, this feels like a London pub in a quiet back street near Eastbourne’s seafront."

Victoria Hotel made the list(Image: Google)

However, Camra warns the latest figures show another drop in brewery numbers across the UK, almost all being smaller and independent operators, which the it says are vital to consumer choice.

Ash Corbett-Collins, Camra chairman, said: "Each edition of the Good Beer Guide is a collectible snapshot of beer and pub culture that year.

"This year’s guide is a testament to the remarkable resilience of publicans, continuing to achieve excellence and choice for consumers despite a backdrop of sky-high tax bills and a lack of action from government.

"The Chancellor needs to use the upcoming budget to slash the tax burden on pubs, including VAT, duty and National Insurance contributions."

The 2026 Good Beer Guide(Image: CAMRA)

Ash Corbett-Collins continued: "This really is a make-or-break budget for the Chancellor.

"It’s time for the government to decide if they’re pro pubs and independent brewers, or if they are going to reign over the demise of the Great British Pub."

You can buy the 2026 guide from the Camra website at: https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/the-good-beer-guide-2025/