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Harviestoun Ola Dubh 12 Year Old

Name: Harviestoun Ola Dubh 12 Year Old
Brand: Harviestoun
SKU: SAMEAS16
Price: 5.0 GBP
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Producer Harviestoun

Country Scotland

Region Clackmannanshire

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More About Harviestoun Ola Dubh 12 Year Old

Ola Dubh, or ‘Black Oil’ in Gaelic, is masterfully crafted by aging Old Engine Oil in 12-year-old Highland Park whisky casks. This meticulous process infuses the beer with harmonious whisky notes and a roasty, bittersweet, chocolatey finish. It’s an intensive labor of love for the brew team, who fill the mash tuns to the brim with roast barley, pinhead oats, and malted barley, creating a dense and viscous beer that ferments at a slow pace. After at least six months in whisky-soaked casks, the beer takes on the nuanced flavors of the oak, and it’s only deemed ready when their Master Brewer, Stuart, gives his nod of approval.

For those seeking even more intensity, try the 16, 18, and 40-year-aged variations!

Meet the Producer, Harviestoun

Harviestoun

Style: Brewery

Harviestoun is one of those breweries that proper beer nerds always seem to speak about with a weird amount of affection, and once you try the beers it makes sense pretty quickly. Founded in the 1980s in Clackmannanshire, the brewery became a massive part of the UK craft beer scene long before “craft beer scene” was even really a thing. Back then most breweries were still arguing about cask bitter while Harviestoun was busy making hop-forward pale ales and rich dark beers that felt miles ahead of the curve.

Old Engine Oil is still probably the beer most people associate with them, partly because it’s got one of the best beer names ever invented. It pours black as sin and tastes like dark chocolate, espresso, roasted malt and sticky toffee pudding with just enough bitterness to stop the whole thing collapsing into dessert. Somehow rich and ridiculously drinkable at the same time.

Then there’s Schiehallion, their famously crisp golden lager-style beer that became an absolute staple in Scottish pubs for years. Proper clean malt character, gentle hops and no unnecessary nonsense. It’s one of those beers people underestimate until they realise they’ve accidentally finished three pints without thinking about it.

Harviestoun has always had this slightly understated Scottish confidence about it. No massive hype campaigns, no desperately chasing every trend, just really solid brewing and a catalogue full of beers that quietly became classics over time. Even when the brewery experiments a bit, there’s usually a sense that the beer itself still matters more than the branding exercise around it.

A lot of modern breweries owe quite a bit to places like Harviestoun whether they realise it or not. They were making flavour-packed modern British beer before most breweries had even discovered American hops existed.