Ashover Brewery

Hand crafted ales from Derbyshire
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These are the beers that we produce on a regular basis.
Beers in this list should be available all year round, providing we can source the correct ingredients.
 
 
 Golden Valley Ale 3.5%Easy drinking session beer, created for the Poet & Castle pub in Codnor which stands at the end of "Golden Valley".

Light Rale

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Castle Light

3.7% 

Light with slight citrus hop, very pale and easy drinking session beer.

 

The names reflect the fact that Ashover once had a light railway servicing the local quarries, and that Codnor once had a castle

 

Poets' Tipple

4.0%

Chestnut to amber balanced malt beer. Triple hopped with English challenger hops for a traditional bitter flavour. Designed for the Poets Corner, home of Ashover Brewery.

  HYDRO 4.3%Created for Chesterfield Market Festival in October 2009, this pale beer well hopped with New Zealand varieties of hop was the favourite for the tasting panel from the Derbyshire Brewers Collective. Ashover was known as a Spa town to the victorian tourist trade, and had two hydros!

Rainbows End

4.5%

Pale beer with plenty of malted wheat for a balanced mouth feel. Well hopped with cascade hops for both bittering and Aroma. Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light Railway which is to be returned to its original site in 2008.

 

Coffin Lane Stout

5.0%

Warming chocolate and coffee flavours are enhanced by a slightly bitter finish of Fuggles hops.

 Liquorice Alesort 5.0%

 This rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the boil. Together wit a gentle hopping for a very palletable finnish.

 

 Butts Pale Ale 5.5%

Strong and pale with plenty of American hops, in the style of a west coast IPA. The Butts refers to the local quarry and the address of the brewery.

*Beer of the festival - Chesterfield 2008.*

All Saints

5.5%

Brewed in the Belgian style, this pale wheat beer is enhanced by the addition of Curcao orange peel and hand crushed Corriander seeds. Abbey beers are often named after saints, this one is named after the parish church.

 Seasonal ~ May

Malthouse Mild

3.5%

Complex malt flavours in this low gravity and low coloured mild are enhanced by subtle hop character.

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Specials ~ 'One off' beers you may have encountered. 

 

 Ashover Tit 7.0%Massive and flavoursome Winter Warmer, may be brewed again.

 

 

Amber Rambler

 

 4.3%

Special for John Collins walking 700 miles or so for charity! 10p per pint donated to Billy the Kidney. 

 

 

Dark Dragon

 

4.9%

Our first dark beer, brewed for St Georges day (but supporting the other side!) 

 

 

Rainy Daze 

 

 4.5%

For the terrible summer floods, lots of Sheffield Pubs under water, local breweries losing lots of beer. 

 

 

Tri-Decade

 

 4.3%

Celebrating Chesterfield CAMRAs 30th birthday. 

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 Blackmores Bitter

 4.4%

Festival Special - brewed for Derby CAMRA and named by them to commemorate a founder member. 

 

Rattle 

Imperial Red

 7.5%

First Brewed November 2008

 Janine & Dominic return from the west coast of America, fired up with enthusiasm to create a strong red ale. The name comes from an area of Ashover once renown for the noise of the frame knitting machines.