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Harvey's Quatercentenary Ale

Harvey's Brewery
Lewes, East Sussex
Beer style: Strong Ale - English
Ref: ratebeer.com Apr2024

Common descriptors are
Pasteurised and bottled version of Gunpowder "Reminiscent of the strong beers and ’October Ales’ brewed during the seventeenth century in the country estates of the gentry and nobility; strong malt sugars are boiled, heavily hopped, fermented and matured to produce a bitter-sweet beer with a high spirit content. (Brewed for the quatercentenary of ’The Discovery of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot’)."