Harviestoun Old Engine Oil (4.5%)

Brewed by Harviestoun
Style: Old Ale
Alva, Central, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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On cask at The Heriot-Watt Beer Festival, 2012. 4.6%. A black beer with an aroma of chocolate, coffee and caramel. Similar flavours with a lovely oily mouth-feel. Lingering chocolate and caramel flavours. Very nice.

Pint draught listed at 5% abv. Sandy head dissolves in five minutes to a thin covering over a dark red body with thick, frosty, covering lacing. Nose is slightly vinegary. Taste is bitter band aid. Carbonation is fine and lively. Body is light. A porter with some craftsmanship and character.

Cask@C4. Pours brown woth a beige head. Aroma is roasted caramel, toffee and fruity notes. Flavour is roasted malt, ash, coffee and light chocolage. Dry aftertaste.

Cask @ Charlies, Cph. Pours deep ruby red, lovely looks with a firm, creamy, beige film head. Aroma has deep, dark chocolate, soft smoke, coffee, blackberries, mild tobacco. Low carbonation, dry and light creamy mouthfeel. Flavour has mild roasted malt, black currant astringency, smoke. Heavy malty bitter finish with piney and ashy notes. Nice.

Cask @ C4, Odense. Pours dark ruby Brown with a small White head. Nose is dark overripe fruit. Raisins and prunes. Ashtray and mild roast. Chocolate and caramel. Smooth. A bit too little body.

Cask at Christian Firtal. Near black with a thin tan head. Aroma of licorice, dark chocolate and dried fruit with a touch of meaty smoke. Dryish and rather thin roasted flavour with some caramel and fruity notes

Cask by handpump at The Doctors, Edinburgh (20 Feb 12) - weak roasted malt aroma, very dark red ale, almost black with a small tan head, flavour is coffee / chocolate with a sour aftertaste

Cask @ Bow Bar, Edinburgh 140212
Black...creamy white head...good lacing
Aroma of treacle...dark caramel...some chocolate..slightly smoky..no hops
Taste of black treacle..dark caramel.... molasses..some plain chocolate..light roast malt..hint of bitter hops..some burnt notes...quite a lot of sweet burnt sugar and treacle which I wasn’t keen on
Palate - soft carb..medium body..bit viscous...very sticky. Finish of bunt candy sugar and treacle.
Overall - I was disappointed with this - it has a lot less complexity than the bottled version and had too much burnt treacle.

Real dark color with a slight tan head that disapates quickly. Smells of chocolate, burnt oak and roasts. Tastes of pal, crisp, chocolate. Overall good beer.

On tap at the Rieger Hotel in Kansas City. A tan head that doesn’t linger with a pitch black color. The aroma is mostly coffee and toffee with a little bit of chocolate. The flavor is the same with the coffee staying strong in the aftertaste. A great ale.