Beer and Leighton Buzzard.

Now here's the thing. What better way to spend an afternoon than drinking good ale & chatting with friends. Julian, Kevin & I went to one of the open days at the Leighton Buzzard Brewing Company on Saturday.  It's a micro brewery that's been in business since 2014 & appears to be doing well, it deserves to, supplying local pubs & selling from their own shop in the brewery. As well as four beers and two ciders on offer today there was food available & even a band!
 The beers then, my favourite of the four was called Restoration Ale 4.6% strength a good nut-brown colour and a nice fruity taste, just my cup of tea......or rather beer. The next beer called Narrow Gauge at 3.9% is named after the LB railway, another very palatable beer, again quite fruity with a nice bitterness to finish, very refreshing. Cuckoo at 3.8% was beer three & another very quaffable drink and finally my least fave (yes there are beers I'm not keen on!) called Black Buzzard, a porter at 5.8%. Far too much like cough mixture for me with a smoky after taste, one  Stan would like I think, none of us tried the ciders

Julian and Kevin enjoying another beer.

The business end of where the beer is brewed.

. Weather was ok so it was a popular event so also difficult to get a seat. We ended up sharing a table with a couple of chaps from the Milton Keynes branch of CAMRA, we had an interesting conversation with them, they waxed lyrical about a festival they have organised for October called the 'Concrete Pint,' ninety beers & a few special editions as well, will see if we can get along to support it. They also told us how the LB beer Borrowers Bitter came by its name. The author of the childrens classic 'The Borrowers' Mary Norton ,lived in Leighton Buzzard. Not alot of people know that.
Well, we tried all the beers and then tried them all again and were beginning to get hungry so we left the brewery & walked into LB to the Wetherspoons pub there The Swan Hotel. Busy but not too busy & surprisingly for a Wetherspoons they seemed to have enough staff on! Had our eats, all of us going for the all day brunch strangely and a couple more beers to round the evening off. Cab home and that was it. Very pleasant excursion.