Lewes Castle
Harvey's in Lewes, East Sussex, England 🏴
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.84
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Best Standard Dark Ale in the 2008 World Beer Awards. A traditional full malty 'Brown Ale' with a creamy head. Mild hop notes with a lingering biscuity sweet palate give coffee and liquorice notes. A bitter sweet finish
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Market Porter, Borough SE1. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel aroma. Slightly roasted malty caramel flavor. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel finish with weak hoppy hints.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Jan 2017
at 03:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask@Charlies Bar, Copenhagen - very dark brown to black with firm beige head. Roasted and toasted malty, some caramel and toffee notes, really smooth creamy mouthfeel, dark dried fruit notes, excellent condition, glad I ordered a pint of this. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2016
at 13:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask. A dark brown beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, and bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, caramel, and bread, leading to a bitter finsh.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2016
at 07:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Many thanks to Bob for bringing this from his Harvey’s Pub. Smooth malty beginning. The beer is smooth and round. Very nice and easy to drink. Fresh and malty, round with a subtle malty-nutty bitterness. Smooth and round on the tongue, malty caramel in the aftertaste, round and great with not too much bitterness there.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2016
at 17:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Rights of Man, Lewes, East Sussex. A dark brown coloured pour with a medium bubbly off white head on top. Sweet, malty, caramel aroma. Tastes quite sweet, malty, caramel, a little dark fruit. This was rather good and really on top form as it should be, the famous brewery is down the road from this pub. I knocked back 3 pints of it.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Aug 2016
at 16:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2015, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Harveys Lewes Castle ].Clear light dark red brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, roasted, dark malt, dark fruit, wood. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, dark fruit, dark malt, sweet malt, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150812]
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Dec 2015
at 07:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the White Hart, Crawley. A headless coke coloured pour; toffee aroma; soft caramel taste, with a malty body; and a light spicy bitterness to finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Aug 2015
at 09:52
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12th August 2015
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Clear amber - brown beer, a few pale tan bubbles. Palate is smooth and semi dry, not much carbonation. Very mild tangy malts. Mild tangy toffee. Tangy dried fruits, a little orange peel. Light dry finish. Mercifully absent of the characteristic ’farty yeast’ (copyright Harrisoni) but same old flat Harveys delivery.
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Clear amber - brown beer, a few pale tan bubbles. Palate is smooth and semi dry, not much carbonation. Very mild tangy malts. Mild tangy toffee. Tangy dried fruits, a little orange peel. Light dry finish. Mercifully absent of the characteristic ’farty yeast’ (copyright Harrisoni) but same old flat Harveys delivery.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2015
at 10:42
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at gbbf 2015 day 4. Black brown coloured pour with a lasting loose tan head. Aroma is odd nutty earthy grains, berry, wood, twigs, some Harveys house character. Flavour is composed of nutty, earthy. Sulphur, fruit and but. Palate is semi sweet, moderate, good condition. Good characterful beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2015
at 10:10
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and breadish. Toasted malty. Breadish. Light caramelish. Toasted dark malty. Bitter, roasted and dark malty finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2015
at 12:10