The Saxon Bar Ale House, Christchurch

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.

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.