Hucknall pub celebrates making CAMRA Good Beer Guide for third year in a row

Byron’s Rest on Baker Street, has flown the flag for the town in the revered real ale lovers guide for three years in a row now and landlord Richard Darrington was delighted to be included in the guide again.

He said: “That’s three years on the bounce now and we’re delighted to fly the flag again for Hucknall, that’s what we aim to do.

“I think consistency is what keeps us in the guide each year, we’re consistent with the ales we keep and we’re very conscious of that.”

The pub is well known for regularly having ales like Titanic Plum Porter on draught and Richard added that they usually have always have an ale from the Black Iris Brewery available too.

Ales from Nottinghamshire breweries Shipstones and Blue Monkey are also part of their core output, along with real ciders as well.

In its guide notes, CAMRA referred to the pub’s former life as a sewing shop before it was converted into a micropub in 2018 and praised the ‘covered secret garden’ which ‘provides a tranquil oasis in the heart of Hucknall’.

Richard also thanked the regular customers and supporters of the pub for keeping the Byron’s ratings high with CAMRA and earning it its place in the Good Beer Guide.

He continued: “CAMRA base their guide on the ratings, obviously you get into the Good Beer Guide based on your scores from what people are putting into CAMRA each week.

"It’s our regulars and people from Hucknall that are keeping us in the guide and I want to say a big thank you to them for that.

"We’re obviously doing something right in their eyes and they have rewarded us by praising us to CAMRA and keeping us in the guide.

"And we’re the only Hucknall pub in the guide again this year, which is a feather in the cap we’re proud of.”

The 2023 CAMRA Good Beer Guide is available now to order online at shop.camra.org.uk/product/the-good-beer-guide-2023.