The Biergarten, Milton Keynes

Already well described, Biergarten isn't easy to find being below the level of the main road and tucked into a row of shops amongst the residential redevelopment of railway buildings. Look out for their sandwich board on the pavement and follow the signs. Despite this it was busy enough on our early Thursday evening visit with both inside and outside tables all full of committed beer drinkers. As mentioned, with its concrete floors, industrial beer shelving and patinaed pine furniture it does feel a little like a shop but no more so than many other micros and as long as the beer is good then the atmosphere tends to follow. The offer is both bottles, with well stocked shelves to choose from, keg and cask. On cask was Concrete Cow Fenny Popper with Paulaner Weisse and Lervig Farmhouse IPA on keg in addition to a cider. The Farmhouse IPA was passable but didn't demand another and a bottle from Twisted Barrel was all wrong which I put down to its treatment rather than the brewery. Biergarten clearly has a decent following already and I wish them every success but would really appreciate an improved beer offer.

Official site of The Biergarten - www.mkbiergarten.co.uk

Official site of The Biergarten - www.mkbiergarten.co.uk