Harviestoun Old Engine Oil (Bottle)

Bottle: Deep brown with a smaller brown head. Aroma is full or earthiness, peat, smoke, and eggshells. Flavor is a roasty malt and smokey, but becomes musty and earthy. Kind of like it was stored near a compost pile... Not really what I like.

From an 11.2 oz bottle this poured a black as oil from a 1968 Volkswagen driven 30,000 miles through the desert without an oil change. Medium light brown head and good lacing. Nose of roasted malts with chocolate, coffee, and burnt wood chips. Very rich and creamy mouthfeel. Finish is like bittersweet chocolate. Very nice brew.

Very dark brown beer with small brown head, nice lacing, (quite big bubbly). Sweet, roasted malty aroma got also nice aromatic hoppyness, licorice and chokolate. Flavor is roasted with much chokolate. Aftertaste is rather sweet. Quite full-bodied and oily palate.

11.2oz bottle. Pours dark brown/black with very little, tan head. Smells slightly toasty and sweet malty. Tastes toasty malty, slightly chocolatey, a little coffee, and a little dish towel. Body is not viscous in myopinion. Pretty thin but very smooth with nice smooth carbonation.

Pours silky black with barely any head. Peaty nose, very mild and welcoming. Gorgeous silky body with subtle complexity. Black licorice, peat and chocolate flavors. Low co2 silky and viscous texture. Reaches that wonderful place where the hops and roasted malt resonate on the same bitterness note, accentuated by smokey harmonics. Light feel and absolutely sessionable. Lovely!

Bottle. Smells like a porter, tastes like a porter, looks like a porter. Chocolatey and roastey but not sour and burnt like a stout. Clean yeast character. Nice.

Bouteille 330ml, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti, de chocolat noir, moyennement fruité (prunes, léger de cerises, traces de pommes), léger de caramel, de houblon terreux et avec des notes de café, de noix grillées et de fumée de bois. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture crémeuse et aux notes huileuses. Moyen goût fruité (cerises, prunes, traces de pommes vertes, de figues et de cassis) accompagné d’un léger goût de fumée de bois, de traces de chocolat au lait (petites notes lactiques) et des réglisse noire lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût moyennement amer de malt assez rôti (petites notes brûlées) avec des notes de chocolat noir et des traces de caramel sucré puis en finale vient se rajouter un moyen-léger goût de café ainsi qu’un léger goût de houblon terreux aux notes herbeuses et des traces de noix. Post-goût long-moyen et aux notes sèches, moyennement amer de rôti-brûlé, moyen de houblon terreux, léger de café et de chocolat noir ainsi qu’un léger goût fruité (moût de cerises et pelures de prunes) et des traces de fumée de bois.

Bottle. Black color with a creamy pale brown head. Aroma: Roasted & sweet malt, chocolate, coffee, toffee, dark fruit (plums). Flavor: Roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, caramel, licorice, fruity sweetness and a bitter finish. Smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Medium to full bodied.