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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.
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.
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask conditioned at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. Golden / amber colour, low head. Moderate malty aroma with fruity hops. A moderate but nice and crisp hoppiness in the flavour, well balanced with the malts. Easy drinking. A nice little beer this one!
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Aug 2005
at 17:51
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Casked @Charlie’s Pub
Hazy copper brown, small head. Good grassy-hoppy nose. Medium-bodied. Woody, bitter, balanced hops with some malty background. Some earthiness from cask.
Hazy copper brown, small head. Good grassy-hoppy nose. Medium-bodied. Woody, bitter, balanced hops with some malty background. Some earthiness from cask.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2005
at 15:08
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at County Hotel, JDW Ashford. If only all lager was like this. A worthy beer to be my 300th. Golden beer with citrus and tropical fruit aromas, carbonated in the mouth and a bit sherberty but it leads to a nice dry finish with nettle hop. Excellent beer
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jul 2005
at 18:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask. Nice hoppy, citrusy aroma, smells dry-hopped. Yellow colour, small creamy head. Good hoppy bitterness. It never occurred to me that this is not an ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jul 2005
at 06:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle 50 cl) Fully golden and clear, nice, creamy head that leaves a pretty lacework. Very fresh, citrusy nose. Rather light body with the aroma hops in full dominance and - again - with the citrus being most pronounced (and it’s no lie when the back label mentions grape fruit flavours. Pronounced bitterness but never too much. A true beer with character. 180705 and 240603
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2005
at 10:53
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask. Malty flavour, I seem to detect a little smokiness also. Copper colour, looks flat. Bubbly white head. Uncompromising bitterness. Nice aromatic hoppiness, but gone very quickly. Long bitterness, a little harsh.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2005
at 09:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Ship and Mitre, Liverpool Had just been to the Baltic Fleet home of the Wapping brewery and this beer was everything they were trying to be and just failing slightly. This is golden, clear, fresh, refreshing with lots of citrus flavours and acids and hops on the end. Good in mouth with long lasting finish of grapefruit
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jul 2005
at 09:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Cask @ Akkurat, Stockholm 3,8 %) Pale amber with a slight haze. The head is nothing but a thin lid. Fruity aroma. Medium-bodied with a fruity apricot-bitter flavour. I really wish I could get cask-conditioned ales where I live.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jul 2005
at 11:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Hazy deep golden. Citric nose. Medium sweet with soft creamy mouthfeel and lemony hops with notes of tangerine. Long, bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jul 2005
at 02:16
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Cask at Guildford Arms, Edinburgh. this was the the first time I had this beer and it was a complete revelation. I had never had anything that assailed my senses from the get go like this one. I could sit there all afternoon just enjoying the aroma of lemon citrus and floral american hops. The fact it is only 3.8% amazes me that they can get so much flavour into it. I would happily drink this every week 4.8/5.0 Re-rate Cask at Guildford Arms, Edinburgh Nice tea and citrus, but nowhere near the explosion of flavour and aroma when I had this beer here for the first time 5 years ago.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jul 2005
at 09:38