The Bald Buzzard Ale House, Leighton Buzzard

Enjoyed our visit to this busy microbar which features in the 2019 Good Beer Guide. Beers on offer were Oakham Dragon in Bavaria and also Green Devil, Chiltern 300s Old Ale and Honey Porter. We had the Honey Porter which was fine. Also serve bottled beers,cider and wine, and various snacks.

This is now one of the older micropubs being well over two years old. It's run by a friendly couple who are a bit more mature than some micropub owners but younger than me! It's well described below and is a proper micropub with no TVs or music. I saw no sign of any spirits either. As far as size goes it's probably average or slightly smaller but there is low seating. There were four beers on and three ciders on an early Thursday afternoon. These were Oakham JHB, Moon Landing & Black Hole Porter and a local Rockhopper Lonbrew. I went for the Moon Landing and Lonbrew both £3.60. The Moon landing was a new beer to me and was excellent while the Lonbrew was a lowish ABV pale with English hops so was very similar to countless beers. It was unfined but only had a slight haze and tasted fine. I noticed the cider was the same price as the Black Hole Porter (£3.80) so went for one of them which was also excellent. This was easily my favourite of three Leighton Buzzard pubs visited and is a worthy GBG 2018 entry. My only disappointment was missing out on Dark Star Revelation which was due on next.