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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omhper (44752) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Very dark brown. Roasty and creamy, sweet and fruity. Caramel and coffee with whipped cream and sugar. Fruity chocolate sauce finish with some cocoa bitterness.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Dark brown, almost black, colour with frothy pale brown head. Roasted nose with notes of chocolate, dried fruit (prunes, figs) and freshly ground coffee. Roasted, fruity taste with prunes, chocolate, coffee, ashes and decent amounts of dry coffee bitterness in the finish. A bit thinner than the earlier, stronger version of the beer. Still a nice brew.
Downender (11275) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask-conditioned at the Berkeley, Bristol (JDW) 17/4/08. Near black, opaque with a decent off-white head. Malty, dark fruit aroma with some earthy hops. Flavour had some chocolate, roastiness and a decent bitter finish. Very good.
Fin (18365) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[i] [b] Cask at JDW Penny Black, Bicester, 09-04-08 [/i] [/b] Pours black with a creamy white head. Nice chewy maltiness to this, some roasted and smokiness to this and even a bit woody, quite a tasty beer and actually quite decent but compared to the stronger version it pales somewhat.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask, gravity dispense, at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Dull black with a ring of transparent head, rather like a pint of coke; fruity aroma; in the mouth it’s oily, with fruit, licorice and aniseed; the finish is long and bitter with a touch of coffee.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Old Engine Oil (4.5% Cask) from Harviestoun 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at JDW ... Deep Red black ... Little smokey malt nose ... light roast malts quite thin ... more hops that expected ... mostly hop in linger.