Camra Good Beer Guide 2025: Brent and Harrow pubs included

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.

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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

The Beaten Docket in Cricklewood is recognised in Camra's Good Beer Guide 2025 (Image: Google)

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

The Black Lion in Kilburn High Road is Grade II * listed for its Victorian pub interior including etched glass, ornate ceiling and the original U-shaped bar (Image: London Village Inns)

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

The Moon Under Water in Colindale has great beers according to Camra (Image: Google)

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

JJ Moon's in Kingsbury has great beers according to Camra (Image: Google)

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

The Woodman in Pinner is recognised in Camra's Best Beer Guide 2025 (Image: Google)

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

The Castle in Harrow on the Hill is recognised in Camra's Good Beer Guide 2025 (Image: Google)

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 

The micro pub Hop & Vine converted from a café (Image: Google)

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

The Woodman in Ruislip has been identified by CAMRA as having a nationally important historic pub interior (Image: Google)

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

JJ Moons, a Wetherspoons pub in Ruislip Manor is recognised in Camra's Best Beer Guide 2025 (Image: Google)
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.