Aurora Ales

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

Established in 2016

Closed in 2022

Contact
Gallows Industrial Estate, Unit 6, Furnace Road, Ilkeston, DE7 5EP, England
Description
Our beers will take you on a multi-flavoured ride through the beer landscape and leave you with some beautiful and inspiring taste experiences that you will want to relive again and again.

Believed to brew on the old North Star Brewery kit.

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Tried on 01 Jul 2018 at 11:52


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Tried on 01 Jul 2018 at 11:49


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2017 [ The 42th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 10th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Aurora Big Dark ].Clear dark black - red brown colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted - chocolate, dark malt, sweet malt, light licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, dark malt, roasted - chocolate, wood, light licorice notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171011] 6-3-6-3-13

Tried from Cask on 27 Feb 2018 at 14:03


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

Gravity cask at the Little R'Ale House, Wellingborough. Deep reddish brown, translucent with almost. No head. Malty aroma with milk chocolate and redcurrant notes. Flavourful on the tongue with the breadiness of the intense malt balanced out by leafy bitter hop. Good, if much of a muchness.

Tried from Cask on 10 Jan 2018 at 02:31


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On cask at Barrow Hill Rail Ale Festival 2017 - Clear gold body, solid white top. Nose very citrus centered, taste a little grassy. Nice all round quaffer. ,

Tried from Cask on 28 May 2017 at 15:02


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2016 [ The 41th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 9th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Aurora Ales Lightshow ].Unclear medium orange yellow colour with a small average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, light yeasty, UK yeast, apple notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, hop bitter, pale malt, fruity malt, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161014] 6-3-6-3-13

Tried from Cask on 24 May 2017 at 14:34


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

Tried at the Nottingham Beer Festival 2016. Hazy pale gold colour with a crisp white head. Light citrus aroma. taste mid sweet to bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 14 Oct 2016 at 23:00