Harviestoun

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

Established in 1983

Contact
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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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Pitch black colour with minor head. Aroma is vanilla, roasted malts, some toffee and a mild vanillaish and wihiskyish edge to it. Flvour is sweet alcohol, roast, vanilla, mild leathery tones, tobacco, some whisky as well as mild toffee to it. Smooth and complex.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2023 at 10:56


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask. Amber colour with a mediumsized foamy creamy head. Aroma is grass, some floral notes, mild herbs as well as some toffee. Flavour is grassy, floral, fruity and some mild nutty tones. Good bitter, which actually is a border case to an IPA due to the hoppiness.

Tried from Cask on 10 Jan 2023 at 10:56


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

Bottled (From Systembolaget Umeå). Pitch black colour with a creamy mediumsized brown head, which leaves good lace. Aroma is roasted and toasted malts with some chocolate, mild lacose as well as some toffee tones. Flavour is toasted fudge, some chocolate, roasted malts, lactose and some sweet sugary tones. Like a dessert version of the normal one.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2023 at 10:55


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

Bottled. Golden colour, small white creamy head. Aroma is fruity, malty, hoppy and some slight floral and grassy notes. Flavour is sweet malts, some grass, hay, mildsalty and some bitter floral notes as well.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2023 at 10:54


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

Cask. Golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, some citrus, mild sweet malts. Flavour is nectar, some citrus, mild floral and some herbal tones. Easygoing, but pleasantly refreshing.

Tried from Cask on 10 Jan 2023 at 10:53


7

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2023 at 19:42


7.5

Tried from Can on 07 Jan 2023 at 18:31


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottled@Beer Hunters, Pori. Golden colour, no head. Aroma is cardboard, some sweet whisky and mild floral notes. Flavour is floral, mild whisky and quite much cardboard and some earthy notes. Dull and boring. Felt rather old, and maybe has had a cap leak to as it was rather flat.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2022 at 16:59


8

0,33 litre Bottle, from Vinmonopolet Rudshøgda. Almost Black with little head. Roasted malts, whiskey, coffee, Chocolate, oak, barrell, sweetness. Nice one!

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2022 at 21:42


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Black, small off-white head. The fruity, peaty elegant whisky dominates the nose. Mid sweet with medium to full body and rounded mouthfeel. The roasty bready malt seems streamlined by fruity whisky. Oak and honey. Mid bitter finish.

Tried on 29 Dec 2022 at 22:45