3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Light, honey-yeasty ale aroma. Good bottle, light pale amber with an off white head. A little tinny, a little tannic, lightly sweet, not very bitter. Slight woody finish, thin bodied. Thanks to Triock for bringing this back from Sussex.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
50cl bottle picked up in Hastings. Golden amber with a loose off-white head; malty aroma; sweet malty flavour, with a few light hops thrown in. Not my favorite Harveys.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours clear copper with no head. Nose is bit of caramel malt and lemon and fruity hop aromas. Taste is fruity citrous hops and a caramel malt backbone. Bit weak and watery though, probably because pasteurised bottles. Not bad though.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Harveys bitter är en ljus lätt ale med ganska mycket humlenärvaro. Lättdrucken.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle @ pre-GBBF shindig, August 2009. Copper colour. Dry, with some earthy hops. Finishes quite bitter. Not bad as pasteurised bottled weak bitters go (that doesn’t mean it is exactly good). Far better than the Harveys IPA sampled shortly before.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate. Bottle from the glorious Harveys shop in Lewes.
Pale amber brown with a thin, bubbly off white head. Clearly pasturised aroma with hints of caramel and leather plus a very pleasing whiff of the Harveys malt store. A little too basic in the mouth. Very odd minty note to it really isn’t sitting too well with me. Mostly caramalt and some faint mineral notes. Far from their best beer but drinkable all the same.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. An amber coloured beer with a small off-white ring of bubbles. This is very much an old fashioned English bottled beer that I imagine is primarily used these days to water down strong beers or to mix with a mild. Having said all that it has some unexpected sweet boozy notes in amongst the cardboard notes from the pasteurisation and general feel of being brewed down. It’s low maintenance and a bit odd.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
275 ml bottle. Light orange colour with some carbonation but no head. Slighlt oxide aroma; caramel & malt. Flavour is somewhat sweet with a background bitterness. An OK beer but nothing to write home about.
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