THE WINNERS of this year’s best pub awards have been revealed.

Mid-Chilterns Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) have announced the winners of the coveted Pub of the Year 2023 awards in Bucks and Herts.

The overall ‘champion of the year winner’ was The George Ale House in Great Missenden.

Boot and Slipper in Amersham was crowned the ‘Best Improved Pub’. 

A special recognition of long service and dedication was given to Ciprian ‘Chippy’ Chelsau.

Bucks Free Press: The Chequers in Amersham was named The Chequers in Amersham was named (Image: Mid-Chilterns CAMRA)

He was nominated for his brilliant hospitality and management at the Chequers Inn in Amersham, spanning twenty years behind the bar in Buckinghamshire.

READ MORE: Great Missenden: HS2 reveals Chiltern Tunnel key design

CAMRA branch chairman Jared Ward said: “Drinkers may not realise that cask beer is a fresh product (hence the phrase ‘real ale’), and even once it has left the brewery, requires constant attention across a myriad of areas to serve a perfect pint.

“The awards are a great time of year for the branch, we embrace them as an opportunity to showcase local pubs, with publicans that are as much impassioned about beer as we are.”