The Guild Ale House, one of Preston’s popular pubs for real ale, live music, and entertainment is celebrating another major award.
Campaign for Real Ale – CAMRA- has awarded the pub the season for Spring 2024 award for best pub in Central Lancashire.
The landlord Gary Quinn, and his partner Jane Briscoe, celebrated, pints raised, as merriments with the customers continued long into the night at Lancaster Road.
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Chairman for the Central Lancashire region Adrian Smith presented Gary and Jane with a certificate to mark the award.
Gary said: “What makes this award extra special it is the 100th seasonal award.
“The award is not just for the real ale, It’s the whole package, the quiz nights, the live music gigs, the clientele, the decor and furnishings.”
The former charity shop was converted by Gary Quinn in 2016 and has been rammed pretty much ever since with drinkers seeking a good ale.
The friendly welcoming hosts, Gary and Jane, are the driving force showcasing what the pubs achieved for the real ale scene.
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The star of the show is not the pub, not the real ales, not the magnificent furnishings and décor, but Luna the Labrador, the pub mascot, friendly and cuddly, a perfect host to welcome one and all.
Paul Armstrong, a regular customer offered his take on the Guild Ale House,
He said: “Good beer, the decorations are beautiful in here, the beer is always good, the company is good, don’t go anywhere else now, I should get a discount.”
Have you considered lodging here? “I have considered it, yes, a room in the cellar please,” Paul pleaded with Jane.
What is your go to beer? “All of them, prefer Bobo, the Belgian lager, but I like the real ales as well,” added Paul.
In 2018, CAMRA crowned the Guild Ale House as Central Lancashire’s best pub.
The couple opened their second venture six years ago in Preston Market The Orchard opens at Preston Market in the city centre, a stone’s throw from Guild Ale House.
If your out and about in the market area you may spot Gary trundling a barrow laden with kegs of beer to and fro, between the pubs.
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Assistant manager of the Orchard Robbie Gilder said: “We were proud we won CAMRA’s pub of the season for Spring, in 2023.
“We have two real ale pumps, three if busy in Summer, 10 different lines with beers and lagers.
“Saturday is party night, our busiest night, opening into the covered market with live music in summer.”
Gary and team are currently running a crowdfunder to help with putting on their live music every Saturday outside The Orchard bar on the Market.
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