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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omhper
omhper (46303) reviewed
St. Andrews Amber Ale (Bottle) from Belhaven
19 years ago
6.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottled at Loch Ness, Stockholm. Clear amber,rich head. Buttery aramel aroma. Sweet and mildly malty, medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Butterscotch wrapped in a thin blanket of grassy hops,notes of slightly burnt toasted bread. Finishing with medium bitterness. Typical Scottish rainy day beer.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2007 at 15:10
cagarvie
cagarvie (40318) reviewed
Tribute to Sandy Hunter (Cask) from Belhaven
19 years ago
6.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Edinburgh Beer festival 07 ... Hazy amber ... sweet fruity hop ... sweet sharp citric hop ... some sweet malts background.
Tried on 20 Jun 2007 at 13:58
cagarvie
cagarvie (40318) reviewed
St Andrews Ale (Cask) from Belhaven
19 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Edinburgh Beer festival 07 ... Copper colour ... caramel malt ... very fruity ... malty and juicy ... little caramel
Tried on 20 Jun 2007 at 13:34
cagarvie
cagarvie (40318) reviewed
90 Shilling / Wee Heavy (Bottle) from Belhaven
19 years ago
7.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home ... Deep brown ... sweet fruit malt ... deep sweet cherry fruit quite a lot of caramel nice but not sure bottles at best so leaving at 3.6
Tried from Bottle on 15 Jun 2007 at 06:43
Sloefmans
Sloefmans (15815) reviewed
St. Andrews Amber Ale (Bottle) from Belhaven
19 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Medium, whipped eggwhite head, over clear foxy-amber beer. Bit sourish nose at first. Reminds me for some reason of wet moor ground/plants; then a bit of caramel and some discreet hops, ending again leafy/earthy. Ashes taste, as well as earthy. Bit smoked, even meaty but then going deeper, into leafy, mossy realms. Unfortunately, plagued by the British disease, known as too much water. Which makes the flavours fade away into strathospheric space. The onset was glorious, but the campaign drowned itself in the watery lowlands. Thanks, Craig.
Tried on 08 Jun 2007 at 13:07
cagarvie
cagarvie (40318) reviewed
Robert Burns Brown Ale (Bottle) from Belhaven
19 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
bottle at home ... ruby brown ... light hop light malt nose ... very fruity ... very little malt ... quite soft and mellow ...
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2007 at 02:10
cagarvie
cagarvie (40318) reviewed
Best from Belhaven
19 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Light copper coloured, grassy hop, verly light smokeyness quite fruity and mellow malt.
Tried on 01 Jun 2007 at 10:08
cagarvie
cagarvie (40318) reviewed
McCallums from Belhaven
19 years ago
7.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 9
red brown colour with thin bubbly head, thin for a stout, rich malty fruity front leading to a mellow chocolate malt.
Tried on 01 Jun 2007 at 05:23
shrubber
shrubber (16041) reviewed
St. Andrews Amber Ale (Bottle) from Belhaven
19 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Sour barley malt aroma. Clear brown with big head. Caramel malt flavor with light smokiness. Nice beer.
Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2007 at 05:28
TDA
TDA (7102) reviewed
St. Andrews Amber Ale (Bottle) from Belhaven
19 years ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
355ml bottle. beautiful dark orange colour. aromas of hay and reminder of the sea. nicemalty sweetness combined with a pleasing sourness that lingers to a very satisfying finish. Intresting and very good.
Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2007 at 02:20