Harviestoun Old Engine Oil (Bottle)

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

Bottle from Chelsea Pub, Parma - with a leaking cork. Liquorice, some sour smoke. Lots of malt, some coffee. A bit oily. I will have to try this again in prime condition when half of the bottle is not spread in my suitcase.

bottle. Dark black pour, with a big tan head, pretty good carbonation. Dark roasty malt aroma. Slight coffee flavor, kind of thin, kind of different compared to the old ales i’m used to. Not bad.

Bottle. Black with frothy light brown head and good-fair lacing. Aroma is heavy roasted molasses coffee malt with a hint of brown sugar. Initial flavor of strong malt sweet one stage roasted malt. Very faint bitter finish. Smells sweet and taste roasted. Good Black Ale.

330mL bottle. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma is very rich, cappucino, chocolate, roasted malts. Flavour has mild coffee-like bitterness, with a warm finish and a bit of chocolately sweetness in the aftertaste. Quite nice overall.

330ml bottle from the LCBO Pours a pitch black with a large tan head The aroma is rich chocolaty roasted malts The taste is bitter dark chocolate and malts Why is this not considered a stout

12oz. bottle. Sweet on the nose like a dopplebock till that subsides and roasted malts arrive. Black body looks like oil with chcolate milk colored head. Flavor is sweet to start with but as this warms a mild chcolate presence is there with a real good roasted malts flavor. Some sweeteener lingers a bit on palate along with some dry coco good brew.

Pours a deep dark brown - black in the glass - with a tan head that dissipates. Smells nice - roasty malts, some molasses and a bit of coffee. Flavor isn’t what I was expecting though - they call it rich and full-bodied, and for something called "engine oil," it’s neither. The flavor adds what is almost a sour note (bad sour, not tart sour), and it’s very watery. The notes are nice, but the mouthfeel just doesn’t do anything for me. This one was a disappointment, even without being an Impy.

12 oz bottle purchased at Frugal MacDoogal’s in Nashville. Poured a dark black color with a two finger brown head. The aroma was largely roasted malt, with a mild note of bitter chocolate. The flavor was very roasty, with only a small bit of chocolate present. The palate was above average, with a creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation and a medium/full body. I was a little disappointed in this beer. I was expecting a lot of chocolate, and a got a lot of roasted malt. This had a really strong "homebrew" character to it. Good beer, but not quite what I expected.