Harveys Sussex Golden Ale

Brewed by Harveys
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Lewes, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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275cl bottle from brewery shop. Gold with a thin white unlargered head. Full of harveys house characturistics and very similar to their sussex bitter but suffers from pasturisation.

50cl bottle picked up in Hastings. Pale gold with a fast dissipating white head; caramel aroma; soft biscuity malt flavour with a touch of citrus and a lightly bitter finish.

UPDATED: JUL 29, 2011 Bottle. Clear golden with a short off white leaving some lacings. Aroma is grassy and a bit sourish and floral hoppy with some pale malts and a touch of butterscotch. Taste is sweet malty with some butterscotch and a grassy floral bitterness. Medium to thinner body with low carbonation. A bit buttery and creamy. Ok, but pretty boring.

Bottle, Pale amber with no head and moderate carbonation. Sweetish, yeasty aroma with a touch of peach and orange fruit. Earthy flavour, with some more fruit and bitter finish. Ok.

Bottle as Harveys Quidsin. The aroma has flowery hops, some toffee/caramel. Clear, yellow coloured beer with a thin, white head. The taste is fairly bitter, has some malty sweetness and flowers. Light-medium bodied. Okay.

Bottle from the brewery shop, consumed on 30 July 2009. Gold colour but more like a bitter in character than a golden ale. Albeit a fairly soft and easy drinking one. Decent balance of mild earthy hops and toasty malt. Clean enough. Does its job without fuss. A pleasant quaffer.

275ml bottled as Quidsin. Pale golden yellow with a very small off white head. No carbonation. Some citrus and flowers on the nose but the taste was once again dominated by a strong caramel and rather woody taste. This seems to be common in a lot of these small bottles from the brewery. Slightly better than my recent experiences had led me to expect.

Bottle 50cl.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, grain, light toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090730]

Bottled@ChrisO. Golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is flowery hops, some mild nectary notes as well as some wooden stuff. Flavour is a bit eggy along with the same stuff as the aroma. Quite fruity aftertaste.

Bottle of quidds in, from brewery shop in Lewes, had at home. Alround rating: Honey pale malts, harveys minerally water, small apple content, floral in the finish, nice and balanced and tasty.

Bottle from brewery shop in Lewes. Lovely hops. The Harveys "signature note" blend of Fuggles and Goldings with a bit of house yeast (but no Bret). A good quaffing ale - refreshing and flavoursome. Lighter in character and drier than the Best.