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Harveys (Free House)

Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Best Bitter (use Marston's entry now please)Acceptable1
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Bombardier (was Bombardier Glorious English) (use Eagle entry now please)Acceptable1
Archers - Golden BitterPoor1
Everards (see entries against Joule's & Robinsons whilst its new brewery was being built) - TigerNot Tried0
Thwaites - Lancaster Bomber (please now use the Banks's entry)Not Tried0
Marston's - BassNot Tried0
Picture 1. Harveys, Folkestone, Kent

Visits Details

09 Jan 2015 (Magnus Greel)
Fairly busy late afternoon.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Bombardier (was Bombardier Glorious English) (use Eagle entry now please)4.10AcceptableWhat no Doom Bar? I was pleased to see a national bland on offer and it lived up to its expectation.
04 Sep 2012 (Philip Pirrip)
2110 hours visit. Nothing like I remembered it when it had a thriving range of real ales including Harvey's. Consequently perhaps it was sparsely populated with customers.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Courage Best Bitter (use Marston's entry now please)4.00AcceptableOK but no more
Eagle (formerly Wells & Young's, formerly Charles Wells, formerly Wells) - Bombardier (was Bombardier Glorious English) (use Eagle entry now please)4.10Not Tried
24 May 2005 (Ian)
L shaped bar in basement of large Victorian building. 2 regular beers, 2 guests. Seemed pretty quiet when we visited. Quiet pub with juke box.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Archers - Golden Bitter4.70PoorGolden bitter. Tired thin nose, some citric acidity, bit of hay on nose, normally one of my favourites, but rather poor here
Everards (see entries against Joule's & Robinsons whilst its new brewery was being built) - Tiger4.20Not Tried
Thwaites - Lancaster Bomber (please now use the Banks's entry)4.40Not Tried
Marston's - Bass4.40Not Tried

About the Harveys

The pub sign. Harveys, Folkestone, Kent

Summary of Beer Scores

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Exceptional-
Excellent-
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Acceptable2
Poor1

The pub is found in Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2EA.

Cellar bar with entrance located in Sandgate Road but is part of the Langhorne Garden Hotel. Used to be called Harveys Wine Bar but has lately lost the Wine Bar epithet. Now 2024 no handpumps and no real ale sold. Cellar bar to a hotel above.

We have visited this pub 3 times, seen 6 different beers and tried 3 of them.

Map location

Postcode: CT20 2EA