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If you care about pubs then you probably also care about beer. And if you care about beer you will probably know about CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale). If you don't, or if you want to find out more, we suggest you visit the CAMRA Home Page.

The earliest CAMRA Good Beer Guide on our shelves was produced 23 years before the latest, in 1976. It's interesting comparing the two. In that year, 10 Hull pubs were featured. Of the 8 in the Virtual Crawl area, 6 are still in business: The George; The Minerva; The Cask & Cutter; Ye Old Blue Bell; The "Wellington"; and The White Hart. One further pub that was featured in 1976, the Clarence, continues on the opposite side of the street in spiritual form as The New Clarence. The other "missing" pub is the Zoological, which used to stand on land now occupied by the offices of the Hull Daily Mail.

CAMRA has a local presence in the form of the Hull & East Yorkshire Branch. They produce an excellent free newsletter called the Pub Mirror every two months. This can be found in a number of pubs around the city. Each year the Hull & East Yorkshire Branch also presents a "Pub of the Year" Award to a pub in its area. These are shown in the Virtual Crawl by symbols like the one on the left. Recent winners of the Pub of the Year Award are shown on the right.

Hull & East Yorkshire CAMRA Pubs of the Year:

Each year CAMRA publish their national Good Beer Guide, listing around 5000 of the best pubs in the country from the point of view of the quality and choice of the real ales they sell.

The 1999 Good Beer Guide lists 16 Hull Pubs (down from 17 in 1998); of which 15 are in the Virtual Crawl area. One more is listed in Cottingham. These are shown in the Virtual Crawl by the symbol below. We also show the pubs that were included in the 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 and 1994 Good Beer Guides; and these are shown by similar symbols, on grey, orange, green, blue and red backgrounds.

Pubs featured in the 1999 Good Beer Guide: