Harviestoun

Commercial Brewery in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 1983

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Hillfoots Business Village, Alva Industrial Estate, Alva, FK12 5DQ, Scotland
Description
When we started making brilliant, innovative beer back in 1983, the craft beer thing was just a glint in Harvie’s eye. Now, more than 35 years later, we are proud to be the forefathers of this movement to better beer. Harviestoun is a proud, family-run business, our Chairmen Sandy Orr and Donald MacDonald champion a dedication to the craft that produces award-winning, natural brews made using the finest ingredients and purest Scottish water.

Founded in 1983 by Ken Brooker, the Scottish brewery has grown steadily to become renowned for their award winning beers. Head brewer, Stuart Cail, joined Harviestoun in 1995. Over the years the brewery has found new and innovative ways to create truly unique beers from their whisky cask aged Old Engine Oil to Bitter and Twisted, aged in Gin and Pinot Noir barrels.

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6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the SO...lovely amber ...thin tan lacing ..soft bready caramel ..soft sweet caramel caramel metalic

Tried on 22 Sep 2025 at 11:50


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Bohemian Pilsener or 'světlý ležák' by Scottish Harviestoun; enjoyed from a bottle at Aberdeen airport as the last Scottish beer of my trip in Scotland (ignoring a Punk IPA by BrewDog). Snow white, bubbly, medium thick, lightly lacing, breaking head over a crystal clear pale 'metallic' brass-golden robe with lively sparkling. Aroma of dried white bread, grass, petrichor, wet cereals, ferrous spring water, dried flowers, green tree leaves in spring. Rounded grainy onset, sweetish with lots of prickly carbonation forming an important minerally undercurrent, running through the whole like a babbling mountain brook. Greenish-cereally malts remain pure till the end, rounded and thereafter bittered by a grassy, even rooty, 'green', very credible, even somewhat 'raw' hoppiness. Quite a solid and pure Pilsener, above average for one not made in its home region, I would say.

Tried on 05 Sep 2025 at 22:27


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Fass 1 pt (0,568l) @The Pine Trees Hotel, Pitlochry: Bernstein, dezente Trübung, kräftiger stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; fruchtige + würzige Nase, dunkle/eingelegte Früchte, kräftige florale/kräutrige Hopfenaromen, kräftig Malz, Karamell, leichte Röstaromen, malzig-würzige Bitterkeit; fruchtiger + würziger Körper, kräftige trockene Hopfennoten, floral/kräutrig, dunkle/eingelegte Früchte, kräftig Malz, Getreide, cremig, mittlere Kohlensäure; würzig-trockener Nachgang

Tried from Draft on 31 Aug 2025 at 09:28


5.6
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

tap at GreyFriars pub in St Andrews Scotland. Nice local lager, easy to drink, great post round

Tried from Draft on 30 Aug 2025 at 05:51


6.5

Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2025 at 13:43


6

Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2025 at 20:32


7

Old Beer52 tick

Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2025 at 19:02


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at The Howff, Aberdeen. It pours crystal clear golden witt a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is fragrant, floral, orange blossom, tangerine, kumquat, apricot and biscuity malt. The taste firmly dry, decent bitterness which builds, snappy biscuit, pithy, zesty, grapefruit, waxy orange peel, dull marmalade and floral accents with some toasty grain through quite a bitter finish. Average body a decent fluffy cask carbonation. Easy going hoppy blonde ale. Far from a game changer, but drinks fine.

Tried from Cask at Howff (PBDevco) on 07 Aug 2025 at 12:37


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On cask up the White Lady.
Appearance -;golden and clear. White head.
Nose - lemon, biscuit and caramel.
Taste - more of the same.
Palate - light bodied, fairly zesty finish.
Overall - quite nice.

Tried from Cask at White Lady (JDW) on 28 Jul 2025 at 17:01


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma has some gentle smokiness from the barrels and soft English bready malt. Flavour is surprisingly muted, with gentle whiskey barrels, soft toasted malt, and some earthy breadiness. Surprisingly mellow.

Tried from Bottle from Sterk Avondverkoop on 11 Jul 2025 at 05:45