Tryd & Tested
Harviestoun in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.69
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Beer With Balls.
A warming rich dark ruby beer with pleasant blackcurrant overtones. The balance of carefully selected dark malts produce a smooth deep fruity background for the hop character to shine through.
A warming rich dark ruby beer with pleasant blackcurrant overtones. The balance of carefully selected dark malts produce a smooth deep fruity background for the hop character to shine through.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2017
at 12:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
1st December 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! A nice crisp dark malt start followed by a pleasantly fruity hoppy finish, slightly bitter.
Warning! Early amateur rating! A nice crisp dark malt start followed by a pleasantly fruity hoppy finish, slightly bitter.
Tried
on 08 Jan 2011
at 12:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel aroma. Sweet malty caramel flavor with some fruity hints. Sweet malty slightly roasted caramel finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2008
at 08:26
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Good cream-coloured, fluffy head, pretty persistent over dark chestnut-coloured beer. Strange woodstainer aroma, fleetingly, then more wood and coffee. Finally dry hops and faint cardemom. All in all a pretty complex and layered nose. Hops, my good Doctor, hops! Noble English ones caress the yearning WoostePattyn palate, as well as some dark malts, just enough to sustain. Faint black cardemom remains, but the beer is too weak - I was going to say "too British" - to have an as complex layered taste as its nose. Still pretty good! Light bodied, but nowhere empty. Harviestoun, undeniably amongst the best on the isles. Póg mo thóin, it has balls - Jezza, you knew!
Tried
on 30 Dec 2007
at 14:49
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home ... deep copper ... musty hop with a little malt nose ... woody slightly smokey dark malts ... little nutty
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2007
at 16:31
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Sainsbury. Very deep chestnut colour with thick lasting beige head. Quite a good malty hop aroma, nice grainyness in mouth and then peppery hop towards the end. Dry malt throughout. Hey, I liked it. Hop on end was good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2007
at 05:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Reddish chestnut with a cream head; berry fruit aroma; good body with a syrupy fruitiness, and a toasty bitter finish; a definite hint of blackcurrant - my favourite berry - makes this an excellent beer in my opinion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2007
at 18:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[i] Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Heyford Hill, Oxford, 21-09-07 [/i] This was a much much better beer than the Gales ’Swing Low’ rugby themed one I’d started the evening with. Poured standard brown colour, some fruit on the nose (but I didn’t get blackcurrants) tasted fruity and malty with real nice hoppy bite at the end which took me quite by suprise, not sure what the hops were but they certainly lashed out. Not bad at all!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2007
at 14:06
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sainsburys. A special for the rugby world cup. Reddish-brown color with a decent off-white head that proved long lasting. Carbonation was moderate. Aroma of red fruit with a whiff of hops. Flavour was of fruity malt with a decent hoppy finish. Not bad for a pasteurised beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2007
at 14:15