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Belhaven Herok & Howell’s Festival Ale

PubAddressLast Visit Seen
Prince of WalesAberdeen, Aberdeenshire01 Oct 2018
The Bunch of GrapesKnightsbridge, Central London10 Sep 2013
The GeorgeFitzrovia, Central London09 Sep 2013

Tasting Summary

These comments are the opinion of the individual reviewer and represent what they thought of the beer on a particular day in a particular pub. If a review is less favourable, it may be because the beer suffered somewhere in the supply chain between them and the brewery.

Prince of Wales, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire

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McGargleNot Tried01 Oct 2018

The Bunch of Grapes, Knightsbridge, Central London

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Philip PirripNot Tried10 Sep 2013 Assume this is the same beer as recently reported with poor reviews by correspondent Stephen Harris. Here the pump clips simply described it as Festival Ale American IPA 3.8%. The barman thought it might be a Greene King brew (GK IPA with a bit of added American hops) but appalling to see no declared provenance

The George, Fitzrovia, Central London

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Stephen HarrisAcceptable09 Sep 2013 Rather laughably, this is described as an “American-style IPA”. Personally, I have never come across such a low-strength or bland US IPA. I could not see the word ‘Belhaven’ on the pump-clip, although it might be there. Darkish, with caramel and butterscotch tastes. Just a hint of decent hops. Tastes a lot like the regular Greene King IPA with a dash of Cascade in fact.

Belhaven Herok & Howell’s Festival Ale

3.80% ABV.

We have tried this beer once.

We have given this beer an average score of Acceptable.

Other Belhaven beers.