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The Saxon Bar Ale House, Christchurch
Christchurch
BH23 1QN
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Reviews of The Saxon Bar Ale House (Average Rating: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Saxon Bar Ale House
Made a return visit to this micropub yesterday and I still rate it as the best pub in Christchurch. It can't long have opened when I was last here in 2019.
Located in an unattractive shopping development, there was just one other punter inside on our Saturday lunchtime visit. Although there were a few more enjoying a spot of sunshine outside to the front.
The pub is a typical micropub format with bench-type seating in a single room with a corridor alongside the cool room leading to a couple of toilets.
There is a good selection of cask ales, real ciders and craft beers. There were 6 cask ales - Otter Ale, Siren Recurring Dream, Cerne Abbas Blonde, Exmoor Fox, Dark Revolution Let It Flow & Downton Honey Blonde. Between us, we tried them all and they were in good condition.
Ciders were Snail's Bank Rhubarb Cider & Raspberry Ripple, Seacider Blood Orange Cider & Bakewell Tart, Thistly Cross Whisky Cask, Dorset Nectar Elderflower Cider, Top O' The Hill, Dabinett & Wildcat, Tutts Clump Mulled Cider, Cranborne Dry & Vintage & Perry's Barn Owl. Craft beers were Dark Revolution Techno Head, Polly's Eden, Time & Tide Spratwaffler, Boscombe Yard Sale, Double-Barrelled New Science & Vault City Strawberry Banana Milkshake.
With a decent soundtrack providing a nice backdrop, the only slight negative was the lack of customers and therefore atmosphere. But I bet it gets much busier later in the evening.
On 31st March 2024
- rating: 8
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Cask Fan left this review about The Saxon Bar Ale House
A typical micropub in a newish shopping development. Mostly high tables inside and there is seating outside. Three cask ales, a range of keg beers and ciders, wines, and spirits. All the casks that I tried were of excellent quality.
On 2nd October 2023
- rating: 8
[User has posted 46 recommendations about 37 pubs]
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