Ashover Butts Pale Ale

Brewed by Ashover
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Chesterfield, England

Cask, handpump at the Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 27-04-09 Pours gold with a thin white head. Like the Mauldons Cuckoo this also has a touch of the floral about the nose along with some honey. The strength is apparent but there it doesn’t detract from the drinking experience. Plenty of honey, sweet malts, quite tangy but backed up with that sweet twist. This is actually quite bitter at times. A nice beer. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov14 3.5

Cask @ London Drinker 25: A vibrant yellow hue and as pale as decently allowable. Almost flourescent and uncomfortably close to urine. Lemon squash nose with the slightest hint of bluke cheese. Interesting. Very lemony, chardonnay style beer. Big, mouth-filling flavours of ripe fruit and a tongue drying bitterness give way to airy summer cereals. This is a very interesting little number.

Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear medium yellow color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, fruity. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (010508)

Cask@Loughborough Beer Festival 2008. Pale golden beer with a quite dry and vinous aroma. The flavour is vinous and malty. Overall a reasonable strong pale drink.

1. Cask Handpump at the New Oxford, Salford 16/03/2007 Hop aroma. Almost colourless and a little hazy in appearance. Some dryness in a crisp full malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Marble Arch Inn, Manchester 17/03/2008 Fruit and hop aromas. Small white head. Clear golden coloured and hoppy with a pineapple fruit flavour. Some bitterness in a crisp and slightly dry lasting finish.