Harviestoun Old Engine Oil (Bottle)

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

Bottle. Pours a dark oil (I wonder where the name came from) color. Aroma is chocolates and malts. The flavor is roasty and full of coffee and chocolates. Very smooth and has a nice creamy body to it.

Pours nearly black with a smallish head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate and a hint of hops. Mouth feel is thick and creamy. Flavor is mostly roasted with chocolate and a hint of coffee. A touch of hop bitterness rounds out the flavor nicely. A very good beer.

Pours a deep, dark brown, almost black color into the dimpled mug. Scents of roasted malt and coffee. A thick, filling taste with chocolate, malt, espresso and slight hoppy bite in the finish. Wasn’t as complex as I would have hoped for with this old ale.

Bottle at home ... Rate Beer, Beer of the Day, Christmas Day 2007 ... Deep Solid Black with thin tight off white Head ... Lots of coffee and roast malts plus a little sptirit on nose ... Tad cold as i fetched out of storage as it was beer of the Day ... smooth and creamy ... Lots of chocolate little blackcurrent...

Heres to you all at Rate Beer this Christmas moring.

Bottle at home. Deep deep black,rich chocolate, deep roast malt little blackcurrent, little hop resin lot of chocolate. Cask Edinburgh bbeer fest 07 Deep black ... smokey nose ... rich smokey deep sweet roast ... lots fo coffee ... lots of chocolate ... smooth also 3.7

On nitro at Nicholson’s. Pours a very dark brown with a nice quarter inch of head. Smell is malty and some cocoa. Taste is where a good amount of coffee shows up. There is a nice balance of coffee and chocolate. This is a easy drinker and goes down very easily. Well done.

Nice roasted smoky aroma. The malt is big on the nose, but the sweetness isn’t: Indicator of a well-balanced beer? Why, yes it is. The malt is the obvious highlight here, with nice chocolate roastiness and smoke, but it is balanced very nicely with the hops. Tastes like a stout, with a scotch ale kick. Smooth and medium-bodied, at just the right strength. A nice introduction before getting in to the Oaked/Reserve version of this beer.

11.2 oz bottle purchased at Spirits RB. Pours a solid black with small tight bubbly carbonation clinging to the side of the glass and an inch of creamy beige head. Bitter sweet aroma of chocolate with some citrusy hops sweetness and burnt roastiness. Medium boided with lively carbonation that is easilly quaffable. Initial flavor is very sweet, almost a little too sweet, that fades into a nicely lasting raostines that lingers about for another minute or so. Would of liked this beer to have more body and alcohol considering the name.

Draft at Beneluxx in Philly. Pours dark brown with a brown head. Medium bodied, but with a slight watery texture. Aroma of peat, chocolate, and wet grains. Flavor of caramel, chocolate powder, bread, and tobacco with some green apple mid palate. Finish has a slight sourness and astringency, with some dryness as well.