Belhaven

Commercial Brewery in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Owned by Greene King
Associated with 6 Venues

Established in 1719

Contact
Brewery Lane, Dunbar, EH42 1PE, Scotland
+44 (0)1368 862734
info@belhaven.co.uk.
Description
Established in 1719, Belhaven is Scotland’s oldest working brewery. With abundant local barley, fine water from the brewery well and access to markets up and down the coast, Belhaven was the perfect place for a brewery back then, and it still is today. In 1719, Dunbar market gardener John Johnstone erected a brewery close to Belhaven Bay and founded a brewing dynasty which was to last for 250 years and a brewery which would last much longer. The brewery and maltings persevered through the wars and upheavals of the early 20th Century and was eventually sold by John Johnstone’s descendants in 1972. In 2005 is was taken over by Greene King who kept the Brewery open in Scotland.
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dforslund
dforslund (3311) ticked
90 Shilling / Wee Heavy (Bottle) from Belhaven
2 years ago
5/10
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2024 at 01:22
hawthorne00
hawthorne00 (10233) reviewed
McCallums from Belhaven
2 years ago
5.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Nito can, as McCallum's Sweet Scottish Stout. Clear dark brown with a good cm of crema head. 3+ Cereal and caramel aroma with some singed and metallic notes. Oof, they're not kidding about sweet. Mouthful of cotton wool texture.The singed notes and just a little bitterness do rein things in rather well at the end. A relic.
Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2024 at 12:10
dgh
dgh (418) ticked
Black Scottish Stout (Bottle/Can/Keg) from Belhaven
2 years ago
5/10
Tried on 06 Apr 2024 at 19:32
octal
octal (3610) ticked
90 Shilling / Wee Heavy (Bottle) from Belhaven
2 years ago
6/10
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2024 at 01:06
EricTheFox
EricTheFox (10806) ticked
80/- (Cask) from Belhaven
2 years ago
7.5/10
Tried from Cask on 21 Mar 2024 at 20:04
Olut's photo of 80/- (Cask)
Olut
Olut (22594) reviewed
80/- (Cask) from Belhaven
2 years ago
5.8/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Olut's photo of 80/- (Cask)
First tried at the 2016 Huddersfield Oktoberfest Beer Festival Ale, but basing this one on a cask conditioned pull at the Station Hotel, Larbert, on the way to Stirling and the lovely surrounding areas around the River Forth. Dark clear copper with a thick creamy-frothy head. Lower bitterness brew, slightly floral, light caramels evident.
Tried from Cask at Station Hotel on 11 Mar 2024 at 16:00
efeesse
efeesse (1819) ticked
Black Scottish Stout (Bottle/Can/Keg) from Belhaven
2 years ago
4.5/10
(#1558)(#5 SCT)(#1 East Lothian)
Bought it at "Trinkgut - Haenlinstr.", Ingolstadt, DE
Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2024 at 11:26
thanatosti
thanatosti (4633) reviewed
80 /- (Bottle) from Belhaven
2 years ago
6.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
50 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Lidl Cuemborg. Clear copper with a white head. Malty aroma with some nutty tones. Light sweet taste with a low bitter finish. Nice malty ale
Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2024 at 22:43
Franclh
Franclh (7993) reviewed
80 /- (Bottle) from Belhaven
2 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 7
Fles 50cl thuis. Toffee, grainy, caramel, hoptonen, bittertonen, maltig, fruitig. (8-3-2024).
Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2024 at 21:16
Ken1
Ken1 (6363) reviewed
Robert Burns Brown Ale (Bottle) from Belhaven
2 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Aroma: Malt and caramel with sweet berries. Flavour: Malty sweet with caramel and notes of sweet berries. Aftertaste is malty sweet. Colour: Reddish brown with an offwhite head. From: Bottle @ A good case webshop.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Feb 2024 at 16:29