Good Pub Guide out today
The 25th anniversary edition of the Good Pub Guide 2007 is out today - with several retailers reverting to 1983's beer prices to celebrate.
The Five Mile House in Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire came out top of the heap as Pub of the Year 2007.
Guide editor Alisdair Aird said: "The Five Mile House used to be a great traditional, rustic pub with no food offering and when the new owners took over a few years ago and wanted to introduce food, we were nervous.
"But they proved that you can introduce a good, solid food offering into a pub without taking away the traditional pub element. This is mostly why they won."
Sixty-six pubs have appeared as a main entry in all 25 editions and Northumbria's Olde Ship in Seahouses has scooped a special 25-year award for appearing in the book every year since 1983.
Licensees Alan and Jean Glen are celebrating the pub's achievement with a party and lots of drinks will be sold at the same price they were in 1983.
Newcastle Brewery, Hadrian Brewery and Black Sheep will all be selling their brews for as little as 62p a pint.
Aird found the national average price of a pint is £2.33 and the cheapest areas are Lancashire and Staffordshire at around £2.10 a pint.
The most expensive is Surrey at around £2.57 a pint
In 1983 prices ranged from 46p a pint in the West Midlands to 78p in London.
Aird said: "If price changes in the next 25 years come to echo the guide's first quarter century, the national average pint price will be £8.40, with Londoners paying £10.60!"
Award category winners
Pub of the Year - Five Mile House, Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire
25 Year Award - The Olde Ship in Seahouses, Northumbria
New Pub of the Year - Masonic Arms, Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland
Beer Pub of the Year - Market Porter, South London
National dining Pub of the Year - Pear Tree, Whitley, Wiltshire
Own Brew pub of the Year - Brewery Tap, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Licensees of the Year - Paul and Jo Stretton-Downes at the Bottle & Glass, Picklescott
