Peak Ales

Microbrewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2005

Contact
The Barn, Chatsworth, Bakewell, DE45 1EX, England
Subsidiaries
Peak Ales owns 1 brewery:
Description
Peak Ales Brewery is a real ales craft brewery based in the Derbyshire Dales, UK. Run by Robert and Debra Evans and their team, they have over 100 years of combined knowledge and experience in producing Real Ale Craft Beers.

Born out of love and the challenges of setting up their own micro-brewery Robert and Debra have successfully produced National Award-Winning Ales in casks and bottle beers.

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Brown 500ml bottle, best before Sept 2007, drank Feb 2007. Poured into a pint sleeve a deep red mahogany body with an off white tight foaming head, looked a picture, a real bitter, not one of these new light coloured bitters that are flooding the UK market at the moment. Aroma of biscuity malts with a hoppy undertone. Good malty flavour, strong bitter taste, fine example of how a good British bitter should taste like. For a UK non-bottled-conditioned beer, this is as good as it gets, heavy malts stay, the 5% is evident, but not overpowering. Very impressed with this beer, interesting stuff on the label too, all about why its got the name and some history about one of Englands most visited stately homes (where the brewery is), Chatsworth House.

Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2012 at 02:54


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

24th Oct 2010: My first Christmas beer this season (the bottle is best before the end of Oct, so it’s last years brew). Poured into an ’Abbot Ale’ tankard. Dark ruby red in body colour a good foaming head of a light tan hue sat on top. The smell is of toasted/roasted barley, they also dominate the taste. This is a true, sit by an open fire sort of winter warmer and evokes all the traditional thoughts of a Victorian Christmas. Fuggles hops ensure the malts don’t have it their own way and the beer has a nice balanced feel to it, dark and malty throughout, but with a hoppy bitterness under the surface with comes out as the mouth dries. A difficult to find beer; but well obtaining and trying.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2012 at 13:26


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

cask at 5lamps ...golden amber ... chlorine mellon hop nose ... sweet orange hop ... light ruit zezty ... little mellon

Tried from Cask on 21 Oct 2011 at 06:12


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask @ Bon Accord. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma is soft malty, some hops. Flavour is malty, hops, citric. Juicy. Good drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 12 Feb 2011 at 08:22


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask, handpump at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Castleton, Peak District, Derbyshire 20.09.10. Pours chestnut in colour with an off-white head. Nice light nuttiness and lighty malty. Tasty bitter beer with good bitterness, very pleasant some vanilla also showing, some citrusy streaks also. Really good beer in a very good pub. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.6

Tried from Cask on 21 Sep 2010 at 09:55


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On gravity at the Rising Sun beer festival, Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire 29/08/10. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Sweetish aroma of caramel with some fruit. Flavour was similar, with some biscuit malt, a touch of grassy hop and bitter finish. Fine.

Tried on 03 Sep 2010 at 23:57


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ 3 Judges. Amber colour, off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, slightly fruity. Flavour is caramel malts, some biscuit. Slightly bitter finish. Very average.

Tried from Cask on 17 Jul 2010 at 12:37


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask @ 3 Judges. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma of cooked vegetables. Flavour is light hopped, biscuit malts. Fairly bitter.

Tried from Cask on 10 Jul 2010 at 11:43


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled. Clear orange color, medium off-white head. Aroma of toasted malt, some cookie, bit hop. Bit bitter taste, toast, cookie, bit earthy. Ok bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jul 2009 at 10:39


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

Cask, gravity dispensed, at the 2nd Beer Festival at the Cambridge Blue, Cambridge. Amber with a ring of white head; floral aroma; flowery hop flavour; light bitter finish, slightly sticky. Rather one-dimensional.

Tried from Cask on 23 Jun 2009 at 17:35