Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask)
(Batch of Old Engine Oil)
Harviestoun in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.99
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This beer is just the job for anyone who appreciates beautifully engineered stuff that used to be made properly. So undo the top button of your pressed pits overalls, ease into the wingback and roll out a rare taste of a truly great British beer.
Old Engine Oil is a remarkably smooth, creamy brew with a beautiful velvety mouthfeel. Enjoy flavours of coffee, slightly buttered toffee, dark chocolate and earthy hops. You may find some mild cherry fruit within the residual sweetness, neatly accompanying the roasted flavours that ride with you all the way to the finish.
Born in 2000, this winner of the first ever Tesco Beer Challenge was always designed to have a thick, dark, gloopy appearance. We piled in the oats to smooth out the bitterness from the roast barley and laid on a super-high-temperature mash to make the wort less fermentable. The result is a really black beer that has a greater sweetness and fuller flavour than many other stouts and porters, as well as a surprisingly light texture.
HOPS: Galena, East Kent Goldings, Fuggles
MALTS: Roast barley, oats
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Olut (21769) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Tasty porter that is very black and has a nice creamy head on top. Very mild in its roasted aroma and flavour, but also very smooth in the palate.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Red Lion, Knowle, Solihull. Poured a dark mahogany colour with a thick creamy tan head. The aroma is dry and malty which leads to a bitter, creamy flavour with liqourice and dark chocolate. A gorgeous porter it must be said and one of the best I’ve tasted.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ C4, Odense. Pours dark ruby Brown with a small White head. Nose is dark overripe fruit. Raisins and prunes. Ashtray and mild roast. Chocolate and caramel. Smooth. A bit too little body.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at Christian Firtal. Near black with a thin tan head. Aroma of licorice, dark chocolate and dried fruit with a touch of meaty smoke. Dryish and rather thin roasted flavour with some caramel and fruity notes
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask @ JDW Elgin [240313]
Good body, nice strong roast bitterness, great flavour, far better than last time, much less of that sticky sweet treacle - up to 3.8
Cask @ Bow Bar, Edinburgh 140212 7/4/6/3/13 3.3
Black...creamy white head...good lacing
Aroma of treacle...dark caramel...some chocolate..slightly smoky..no hops
Taste of black treacle..dark caramel.... molasses..some plain chocolate..light roast malt..hint of bitter hops..some burnt notes...quite a lot of sweet burnt sugar and treacle which I wasn’t keen on
Palate - soft carb..medium body..bit viscous...very sticky. Finish of bunt candy sugar and treacle.
Overall - I was disappointed with this - it has a lot less complexity than the bottled version and had too much burnt treacle.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Half pint, cask at The Rake, Borough Market. Pitch black, no head, spotty lace. Malt-fruity smell. Ditto taste profile with a touch of anise. Bitter roastiness on the swallow. Easy to drink. A good one (London, 30.07.2011).
fonefan (84534) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) @ Barony Bar, 83 - 85 broughton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 3RJ.Clear dark red brown color with a average to large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, coffee, berry. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, berry notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100205]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the Gunmakers, London on 10th February 2010. Deep red-black with very little brown head. Roast malt much in evidence with a hint of chocolate and spice, touch of aniseed. Slight fishy notes in kick then bittersweet aftertaste on a smooth mouthfeel.
Bullit (6144) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask @ 2nd Larbert Beer Festival. The 4,5% version. Black colour, tan bubbles. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, some smokiness. Flavour of roasted malts, smoke, hint of chocolate. Fairly bitter, fairly dry. Nice one.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Cask, have written down 4.5% in my notes, and called the pub up to ask if this is right, and according to the pumpclip it is 4.5%. The Cask didn’t state any abv. Very deep rubyish colour with small beige head. Aroma is mild caramel and roasted malts along with some chocolate and mild fruityness. Flavour is mild roast along with some woodenness and mild chocolate. A bit watery in the palate. Otherwise nice.