Ashover Brewery Butts Pale Ale

Butts Pale Ale

 

Ashover Brewery in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
6.56
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 12
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.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Cask at CBC, Covent Garden on 3rd August 2025. Clear gold with shallow off-white foam and full lacing. Soapy citrus aroma. Tangy berry fruits, citrus notes and spicy peel in-mouth., and a bitter grassy, dry finish. Medium bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.

Tried from Cask at Craft Beer Co - Covent Garden on 03 Aug 2025 at 22:59

gave a cheers!

7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Petersgate Tap, Stockport. Pours a slightly hazy gold with a sizeable white head and good lacing. There’s floral hops and some citrus in the aroma. In the mouth it is sweet and yeasty. Hops are there from the start, and it quickly becomes quite intensely bitter with traditional hops and lemongrass. Leading to a massively dry finish. This is very good indeed – plenty of the old school hoppiness that I like.

Tried from Cask on 10 Aug 2023 at 20:49


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tried at the Strugglers Inn, Lincoln. Golden colour with a thin white head. Citrus orange and tropical fruit aroma. Taste us light sweet to mid fruity bitter.

Tried from Cask on 28 Aug 2016 at 23:00


6

Tried on 01 Jul 2016 at 18:54


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Craig’s. Pours golden amber, light toffee, bitter and dry, light fruit.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2014 at 12:32


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol, 5/6/2014. Golden with a decent, and frothy, off-white head. Sharp lemon fruits, cereal malts, grassy hops and a decent, dry finish. Fine.

Tried from Cask on 07 Jun 2014 at 08:59


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

bottle at home ... golden yellow amber ... small white head ... soft light orange light dry fruit nose ... soft zezty orange ... light dry hop ... light oily fruits ...

Tried from Bottle on 02 Nov 2013 at 13:27


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Arkwright Arms, Duckmanton, 04/10/13. Clear pale golden with a thin white head. Nose is citrus zest, orange, light hops, lemon sherbet. Taste comprises light grapefruit, orange pith, good hop presence for a GB. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry grassy bitterness in the finish. Decent GB.

Tried from Cask on 16 Oct 2013 at 14:05


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

On cask at Old Poet’s Corner, Ashover - Hazy gold with slight head. Big fruity aroma, peachy then just a touch grainy, malty on drinking. The hops show through, quite citrusy, sharp, the body remains a touch thin perhaps but still pretty drinkable. Still okay mind you.

Tried from Cask on 20 Jul 2013 at 07:14


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Clear light golden colour, white head. Nose is cooked vegetables, bit of malts. Flavour is light malty, cooked vegetables, fairly bitter. Not good.

Tried on 02 Jul 2011 at 10:15