Harviestoun Schiehallion (Cask)
Cask and bottle: Unfiltered.
Most bottles are filtered, but there is a special unfiltered release sealed with a swing top.
Brewed with lager malt and Hersbrücker and Challenger hops. Fermented with a lager yeast, but treated in every other way as a cask ale, save for a week or two of cool conditioning prior to release.
Named after the misty mountain near Pitlochry. Has won numerous awards as a cask conditioned beer, including three times gold winner at the Great British Beer Festival.
Most bottles are filtered, but there is a special unfiltered release sealed with a swing top.
Brewed with lager malt and Hersbrücker and Challenger hops. Fermented with a lager yeast, but treated in every other way as a cask ale, save for a week or two of cool conditioning prior to release.
Named after the misty mountain near Pitlochry. Has won numerous awards as a cask conditioned beer, including three times gold winner at the Great British Beer Festival.
3.3
193 reviews
Alva, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Community reviews
Cask @ GBBF 2016. Pours a slightly hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grassy grainy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grainy grassy hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty malty grainy grassy finish.
De perfil más maltoso y un poco dulce. Espuma efímera y sin gas. Probada en Cask, pero el formato no le aporta mucho.
Well nothing to say, this is a Pils, and that’s pretty much it. I’m not a Pils fan hence the bad notes, but is this really a bad Pils regarding the other, I can’t tell...
Nice glue like Aroma. Not much in the way of foam. Standard pilsner beer. Refreshing for a hot day.
Mousse très faible. couleur jaune vive. Je la trouve très floteuse. Très quelconque
thats cos its majestic
This is my favorite beer followed by a warm glass of Super Tennents
Creamy white head stayed well on a hazy straw coloured, still body. Very smooth on the palate - minimal carbonation. This is a creamy lager - like a cross between a bitter and a lager. Mildly hoppy, grassy & hints of yeast. For a lager this is good.
Cask Pint at Wibbas Down (JDW), Wimbledon, London in July 2011 - Mildly bitter citrus fruity. Hops override malt. Sweetish with bitter edge. Dryish finish. Not bad.
(2011-07-25)
Refreshing, slightly bitter, slightly sweet, hint of hops, a little bit floral. It’s a very good lager - just perhaps too carbonated but that helps it be drinkable to the bottom of the pint. Quenching. Nothing groundbreaking but you don’t need that all the time.
Sampled @ GBBF Day 2. Clear yellow golden color, small to average sized white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, somewhat hoppy, slightly sweetish hoppiness, lightly bitter finish. Average to decent body, average carbonation. Decent.
Cask at GBBF day 3 11/08/2016. A pale yellow golden coloured pour with a sticky white head . Aroma is crisp pale grains, little apple . Flavour is semi sweet apple, pale grains apple, Palate is semi crisp, semi sweet moderate carbonation, meh. A bit sweet and muddled
Gbbf. Klares hell goldgelbes Bier. Geruch mild zitronig hopfig, grasig, helles malz. Geschmack mild hopfig helles malz, citrus.
Cask at The Green Dragon, Leek (JDW) A clear golden colour with a frothy white head. Aroma of bready malts, some fruit, slight lemon and herbal, grassy hops. Taste of bready malts, some fruit, slight lemon, a little kali plus herbal, grassy and floral hops. Medium bodied and soft carbonation. A dryish, slightly bready, grassy hops bitterness in the finish. A really well balanced cask lager, full of flavour but not that bitter. Sweet bready malts, a little citrus and a soft but lingering hop backbone. Great for its style.
Nice bitterness. Well balanced and fair strength. Quite tarty with nice citrus notes. Golden with fair head. All in all respectable.
Poured clear golden with a bubbly off white head. Aroma of effervescent citrus hops. Light body, flavour is medium sweet, moderately tart and bitter.
Cask at ’The Inn On The Mile’, Edinburgh, june 17th 2015. CLear golden body, small white head. Flowery aroma with pilsner malt. Taste is sweet with herbal hops and a light bitterness. Finish of bread and flowers. Decent.
Real ale draft. Pours a clear golden yellow with a half finger, off white head that leaves a thick coating. Fine sediments rising to the top. Aroma is mildly creamy with hints of fruity esters. Taste is balanced with notes of creamy fruity esters, and traditional spicy/earthy hops. Medium-full body with a low-medium carbonation and a dry finish. Overall a nice cask ale. Fruity Easter, traditional hops, and a great cask mouth feel.
Cask six chimneys wakefield. Golden ok head lace aroma is pale malts taste same nice sweetness decent hoppy dry botter finish. Good larger easy drinker.
Cask at Counting House. Hazy pour, though it does clear. Golden colour and thick white head. Light citrus smell. Flavour is crisp, sour lemon, hops and as mentioned in other posts an almost earthy, smoky taste underneath all that too. Quite a creamy mouthfeel too. Nice, interesting lager.
Gravity dispense at the Happy Man Spring BF ’15, 20/03/15.
Clear golden with a moderate off white covering.
Nose is pale malt, lemon drizzle, grain husk, light bread notes.
Taste comprises more soft bread tones, light citric, caramel, faint cereals.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with light citric hop bitterness.
Refreshing stuff, solid for a cask lager.
19.2.2015. This has taste for a lager, quite punchy bitterness and malts. Grains, slight toffee.
Cask at the blue blazer. Pours clear golden, nose is dull toffee, grassy, taste is sweet toffee, floral, a little watery.
Cask pint at The Captain James Lang (JDW) in Dumbarton. Medium golden colour. A largish head.
Cask at Ship Inn North Berwick. Lovely and smooth. Creamy mouthfeel. I agree with comment about subtle undertones of perhaps smoke. Few went down well
Surprisingly smokey aromatic undertones, given that this isn't a dark. Syrupy on the palate and quite smooth.
Cask at the Stein Inn, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Pours orange with very small white head. Malty and lightly hoppy. Looking other ratings there is a chance something was wrong with this one.
September 20, 2014 - handpull at Craft Beer Co (Islington). Deep clear refractive gold with a very small bubbly off-white head. Light and somewhat fruity aroma with some light green not-very-acidic hop bitterness, not much alcohol - sort of grassy, but sort of not; has a bit of a "tang" to it Taste is simple - grassy, slightly tart, with a hint of green apple and a slightly larger hint of appleseed. Light, slick body, building bitterness, a little still, nice dry and somewhat bitter longish aftertaste. I quite enjoyed this.
Smooth malty beginning. Fresh, grainy, smooth with hints of lemon. The aftertaste is smooth, malty-grainy. Nice.
Pint at the Flying Standard, Coventry. Aroma is of some lemon and corn, taste is pretty sweet with some citrus and malt coming through. Medium
Bitter in the end. Prefer the bottled version!
Cask @ White Hart, Todmorden. Golden with a creamy head. Has a potent sugary nose with a malty character.