A SHEEPSCOMBE landlord and landlady are raising a toast after their pub was named in the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide for the tenth year in a row.


Mark and Sharon Tallents are celebrating after the Butchers Arms was featured again in the pub group’s annual guide, used by beer lovers to discover the best hostelries up and down the country.


To mark the occasion, Stroud CAMRA held a launch event for the 2022 edition of the ‘beer lovers’ bible’ at the pub on Saturday.


Tim Mars of Stroud CAMRA said: ‘It was a thoroughly enjoyable occasion thanks to the beer, the company, the ambience, the warmth of the welcome as well as the stove. The Good Beer Guide is about real ale first and foremost, and the pub did not disappoint with a choice of three beers in superlative condition from three local and regional breweries at a range of strengths.”


The guide’s entry for the Butchers Arms describes it as a ‘handsome 17th-century Cotswold-stone pub overlooking a wooded valley [with an] adventurous range of ales from across the country’. 


There are eight pubs from Stroud CAMRA’s patch in the 2022 edition of the Good Beer Guide:


The Ale House, Stroud
The Bowbridge Arms, Bowbridge
The Butchers Arms, Sheepscombe
The Crown & Sceptre, Stroud
The Crown Inn, Minchinhampton
The Prince Albert, Rodborough
The Stroud Brewery Tap, Thrupp
The Vine Tree Inn, Randwick

The 49th edition of the guide was published on Friday, November 12.