Harvey's Brewery
Harvey's brews in Lewes, East Sussex, on the bank of the River Ouse, in a Victorian tower brewery rebuilt in 1881 to designs by William Bradford. The business goes back to John Harvey and the year 1790; brewing began as a seasonal sideline around 1820, and his descendants still run the house. Its beers are shaped by Maris Otter malt, hops from Sussex and Kent, water from the brewery's own wells and a yeast strain kept for some sixty years. Sussex Best leads a range of cask ales, monthly seasonals, strong bottled beers and a small keg line.
Beers by Harvey's Brewery
30 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Harvey's Brewery brew a broad range across 8 style families.
Across these 30 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Sussex Best
Their one ranked beer sits in the Top 24% of the catalogue.
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About Harvey's Brewery
Harvey's brews in Lewes, East Sussex, on the bank of the River Ouse, in a Victorian tower brewery rebuilt in 1881 to designs by William Bradford. The business goes back to John Harvey and the year 1790; brewing began as a seasonal sideline around 1820, and his descendants still run the house. Its beers are shaped by Maris Otter malt, hops from Sussex and Kent, water from the brewery's own wells and a yeast strain kept for some sixty years. Sussex Best leads a range of cask ales, monthly seasonals, strong bottled beers and a small keg line.
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