COLCHESTER and Tendring boasts a large number of pubs and bars serving up a variety of real ales.

Every year the Campaign for Real Ale organisation, known as CAMRA, puts together its Good Beer Guide.

We’ve been through the 2016 guide and put together a list of the featured pubs in our area.

To read more and to order a copy of the book, which includes 4,500 pubs across the UK, click HERE.

The Colchester and north Essex branch of CAMRA has also just launched its local guide, which can be found HERE.

Scroll through the pictures above (they are in no particular order) to see the pubs you need to try if you’re a real ale lover.