Old Ale
(has 3 batches)
Harvey's Brewery in Lewes, East Sussex, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Winter|
Score
6.68
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Old Ale is a firm favourite during the autumn and winter months. A dark, warming brew. Burnt sugars and roasted malts compliment the premium Maris Otter barley, supplanting the light bitterness of aroma hops. With hints of dried fruit and dates, this rich ale has been likened to the oak: steadfast throughout the year, regardless of the season.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask-conditioned at the Royal Oak, London SE1 16/10/08. Dark brown with reddish undertones and a slight, off white head. Aroma of red fruit, caramel, nuts and milk chocolate. Easy drinking, with a sweetish flavour, repeating many of the notes found in the aroma, with some grassy hops and a short, dry finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Oct 2008
at 03:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask gravity at Oxford Beer Festival 16-10-08 Pours brownish colour, it’s difficult to be more exact in the light of the Town Hall. Good maltiness and some sweet slightly tangy fruitiness. Reminds me of old furniture in many ways, its a bit creaky, bit dusty but well made and comfortable once you’ve settled into it. I really rather liked this and was glad that Neil Hoggarth Oxford CAMRA recommended me a beer like this that I might ordinarily have overlooked.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Oct 2008
at 03:02
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
275ml bottle. Beige head over a dark ruby coloured body. Black malty aroma followed by a sweet malty, almost candy sweet taste sustained by liquorice and slightly offset by the addition of spicy tartness. Weak and thin palate (Thanks to Wivi-Ann, 17.03.2008)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 00:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. A dark amber beer with a red shine under a small tan head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of fruity, malt, and hops. The flavor is sweet malty with primary notes of straw, but also hints of fruit.
Earlier Rating: 12/22/2002 Total Score: 3.6
From cask: a brown beer wiht a fine head. The aroma is very faint but malty. The flavor is malty, smokey, and caramelic with a great balance between the sweetness and the bitterness. It has a great smokey dty finish that lingers (almost citrus notes). A really good beer.
Earlier Rating: 12/22/2002 Total Score: 3.6
From cask: a brown beer wiht a fine head. The aroma is very faint but malty. The flavor is malty, smokey, and caramelic with a great balance between the sweetness and the bitterness. It has a great smokey dty finish that lingers (almost citrus notes). A really good beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2008
at 14:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From cask at Charlies. Pours deep amber with a little lacing head. Slight herbal aroma. Flavour holds a rather dry bitterness and a quite dry malt flavour. Slight fruity note. Ends bitter and dry. Decent, but clearly somewhat off and not fresh.4-3-4-2-9=2.2
From cask at Charlies. Pours dark brown with a golden orange/redish glare and a small bubbly andoff-white head. Mild roasted malt aroma with a light hint of liqourice. Flavour has a more pronounced liqourice and chocolate malt presence. Smooth and easy with a mild bitterness in the finish.6-3-7-3-14=3.3
From cask at Charlies. Pours dark brown with a golden orange/redish glare and a small bubbly andoff-white head. Mild roasted malt aroma with a light hint of liqourice. Flavour has a more pronounced liqourice and chocolate malt presence. Smooth and easy with a mild bitterness in the finish.6-3-7-3-14=3.3
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Nov 2007
at 05:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask. I’m sorry for being a bl**dy Continental, but is "Old Ale" allowed at 4.3%? That’s a boy’s ale in Belgium... B.C."H."; beer is dark ruby to the point of being black. Fresh hops nose, bit of rosewater taking over. Soft sweet taste with a bit of dark, but not (overly) roasted malts. Generally sweetish-malty, with some backthroat complexity. Medium bodied, grist slickness, suave . Nice beer, overreaching its 4.3%, but then again, "old ale"?
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2007
at 11:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Cask at Royal Oak, Borough, London, 23 Nov) Dark brown colour with ruby notes, small head. Malty, nutty nose with caramel and notes of earthy hops in the finish. Malty, nutty taste with chocolate and caramel. Slightly sweet, but with notes of earthy hops in the finish. Nice, but more subtle than Harveys ales tend to be. (6/3/7/3/13=3.2) Rerate: (Cask at Royal Oak, Borough, London, 18 Nov 2023) Dark brown colour, almost black, with foamy beige head. Malty, roasted nose with chocolate, coffee, caramel and oak wood. Malty, roasted taste with notes of coffee, chocolate, liquorice and a mild earthy bitterness. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Tasty and well balanced. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Nov 2006
at 15:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Lord Nelson, Brighton. Deep ruby, thin beige head. Harvey’s yeast aroma. Bit of sour dark fruit. Drinkable in mouth. Some brown sugar. Very nice. Some good biting hop on end. Nice dark fruits in mouth. Very drinkable and slightly sweet.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Nov 2006
at 04:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small light beige head. Translucent dark red body. Sweet caramelly aroma with notes of cream. Mild sweetish caramel taste with more creaminess. Aftertaste is vaguely roasty. Interesting! (0.275 bottle.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2006
at 14:51