Urban Chicken Ale

Microbrewery in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2016

Contact
Heathfield Avenue, Ilkeston, DE7 5EH, England
Description
We are a nano brewery producing small batches of exciting, tasty beer in casks and cans. We brew from a residential garage in the ex-mining town of Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Our beers are mainly found in Ilkeston, Derby and Nottingham, but we have also supplied beers further afield.

Our aim is to provide quality, hand crafted beer to the surrounding area. We brew a variety of styles which are available in 9 gallon firkins, 4.5 gallon pins or 500ml bottles. With a passion for great beer and homebrewing, in 2016 we registered commercially to supply local outlets. Nothing beats seeing people enjoy our beer!

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Smithfield, Derby. Pours a dark reddish-brown with a small cream head. There’s toffee and treacle in the aroma – plus the expected malts. In the mouth malts are the mainstay along with treacle , autumn fruits and parkin plus hints honey and oats. Later on the there traces of dates as well. Finish is sweet with a slight boozy character. This is an excellent strong mild – not quite up to Sarah Hughes standards, but still great.

Tried from Cask on 20 Jun 2023 at 21:48


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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tried at the 2022 Nottingham Camra Beer Festival. Pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are citrus and herbal dry. Light body.

Tried from Cask on 14 Oct 2022 at 14:24


3.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5

Cask at Smithfield Derby. Pours golden yellow with minimal off-white head. Tropical fruits are the mainstay of the aroma. In the mouth it starts off sweet with langerine, floral hops and hints of pepper. Pretty soon though sticky citrus hops come in and ruin everything. Finish is dry snd sticky. This beer left a horrible taste in my mouth that it took literally hours to get rid of ! Ugh !!

Tried from Cask on 12 Jul 2022 at 22:11


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

Gravity cask at the 2022 Rutland CAMRA Festival, Rutland County Museum, Oakham. At 5.6% It's black all right, opaque with the thinnest ring of off-white head. Massive pine aroma with tons of gritty black malts. Sweet taste but just at first with a lot of chewy malt creating an jbtense bitterness. More hop toward the end of the sip with a long pine-laced finish. A Black IPA on steroids. Wonderful.

Tried from Cask on 24 Jun 2022 at 13:54


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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the Nottingham Beer Festival. Deep chestnut brown colour with a thin head. Full body malty and sweet.

Tried from Cask on 14 Oct 2021 at 10:45


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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Tried at BeerHeadz Lincoln. Hazy pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are light sweet citrus to slight dry finish. Medium body.

Tried from Cask at BeerHeadZ on 03 Jul 2021 at 15:09


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Tried on 21 Mar 2020 at 00:20


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Cask (gravity) @ RHBCF2018 [ The 11th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival (The 43th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival) ], The Motorpoint Arena, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA. [ As Urban Chicken / Dirty Monkey Slowly Slowly Catchy Monkey ].Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, sweet malt, light roasted, moderate hoppy, fruity hops, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, dark malt, roasted, fruity hops, wood, citrus, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20181018] 7-3-8-3-15

Tried from Cask on 01 Jan 2019 at 13:07


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


Cask (gravity) @ #RHBCF2018 🧙‍🍻🇬🇧 [ The 11th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival (The 43th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival) ], The Motorpoint Arena, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.

[ As Urban Chicken Mildly Urban ].
ABV: 6.0%. Cloudy dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark malt, sweet malt, bread. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, dark malt, bread, roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20181018]
6-3-7-3-14

Tried from Cask on 23 Oct 2018 at 04:45


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

18/10/2018. Cask at the Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival 2018, Nottingham. Pours very dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, dark fruit, hops and light chocolate. Medium plus sweetness and moderate bitterness. Medium body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation.

Tried from Cask on 18 Oct 2018 at 16:33