Old Engine Oil - Cask 4.5%
Harviestoun Brewery
- From:
- Harviestoun Brewery
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Stout
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.24 | pDev: 10.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 23, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 20, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by captaincoffee from Virginia
4.33/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.33/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pint on cask at Bon Accord in Glasgow. I feel lucky to have been able to get this beer (the 4.5% cask version) as it is only brewed once a year. Pours black with a small dense head that lasts and sticks all over the sides of the glass. Nose is mild, like an iced coffee with roasted malts and toffee. Flavor is a bit sweet. Very creamy, with light roasted flavor and very high drinkability. Mouthfeel was perfect cask.
Overall, really a treat. I wish I could get it all the time. Wish other brewers could do this much with a 4.5% beer.
Nov 30, 2015Overall, really a treat. I wish I could get it all the time. Wish other brewers could do this much with a 4.5% beer.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
4.35/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.35/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Enjoyed by a pint at the John Russell Fox, a JDW pub in Andover, during the chain's recent beer festival. This lighter, cask version of Old Engling Oil seems to be made esp. for the JDW Festival, as indicated in the Festival Beer Programme.
A: deep, dark brown in colour with mahogany hues, coming with a thin, khaki froth and very low carbonation.
S: treacles & chocolate syrup abound, backed by mild roastiness as in crushed roast walnuts; Galena's flowery hoppy scent provides extra enjoyment in the background. Overall, the aroma is deep and harmonious - extremely enticing~~
T: the initial taste of black malts or roasted barley is followed closely by dark fruits and walnutty bitter-sweetness, while the vertical bitterness from mid-taste onwards serves to underline the rich flowery hoppiness, leaving the herbal bitterness with a fantastically dry palate (as in dry-hopped ale!) to conclude the sip... An incredible length & depth of bitter hops lingers elegantly, while a sound sourness from black/burned malts also provides a refreshing edge throughout.
M&D: fresh, smooth, softly carbonated, and superbly bitter... All in all, this 4.5%abv. version on cask drinks like a totally different beer from the 6%abv. bottled one. This is almost like a rich stout to me, a cross b/w dry stout, dry hopped American stout and old ale - a super quaffable one as well! I really wish this version could be made a regular offer by Harviestoun, so that more dark ale lovers (including me) will be able to frequent this black nectar~~
Apr 20, 2008A: deep, dark brown in colour with mahogany hues, coming with a thin, khaki froth and very low carbonation.
S: treacles & chocolate syrup abound, backed by mild roastiness as in crushed roast walnuts; Galena's flowery hoppy scent provides extra enjoyment in the background. Overall, the aroma is deep and harmonious - extremely enticing~~
T: the initial taste of black malts or roasted barley is followed closely by dark fruits and walnutty bitter-sweetness, while the vertical bitterness from mid-taste onwards serves to underline the rich flowery hoppiness, leaving the herbal bitterness with a fantastically dry palate (as in dry-hopped ale!) to conclude the sip... An incredible length & depth of bitter hops lingers elegantly, while a sound sourness from black/burned malts also provides a refreshing edge throughout.
M&D: fresh, smooth, softly carbonated, and superbly bitter... All in all, this 4.5%abv. version on cask drinks like a totally different beer from the 6%abv. bottled one. This is almost like a rich stout to me, a cross b/w dry stout, dry hopped American stout and old ale - a super quaffable one as well! I really wish this version could be made a regular offer by Harviestoun, so that more dark ale lovers (including me) will be able to frequent this black nectar~~
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