The Seven Stars

Armada Ale was one of the first new ‘Golden Ales’ that emerged in the 1980s. It has a pronounced yet balanced hop character, derived from Fuggle and Golding hops. Robust, refreshing and still a port of call in any beer-drinker’s voyage of discovery.

Tasting Notes: Dry-hopped. A golden ale with a vibrant hop tone and a dry finish.

Every bottle of Becks is brewed according to the uncompromising German Reinheitsgebot (Purity law). With a strong and committed heritage, Becks has had only 6 brew masters throughout a 125 year history.

Tasting Notes: Our original Becks is a classic German lager beer with a distinctive full-bodied taste, fresh "hoppy" bouquet, golden colour and a full rich head. Adding to its complexity is a slightly fruity but firm crispness and a dry, clean finish.

A dark amber beer with a full malty palate. Slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste, and a superbly smoky flavour. A staple of Bonfire Night festivities.

Tasting Notes: A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a, slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A strong ale with a superbly smoky flavour.

Carling has been Britain’s best selling lager for more than three decades. It is brewed to have the perfect balance of sweetness & bitterness ensuring it is as brilliantly refreshing from the first sip to the last.

Tasting Notes: Carling has been skilfully brewed using lightly kilned British malts, aromatic hops and Carling's unique yeast to create a malty, sweet flavour, balanced with a hoppy ''clean flavoured'' bitterness and the aroma of freshly harvested grain.

Carlsberg is a Pilsner style lager originating from Copenhagen, Denmark. Carlsberg is light, easy drinking and refreshing. The all malt recipe and Carlsberg yeast strain gives the balance between body and depth of flavour and a clean refreshing palate.

Tasting Notes: Carlsberg is a pale blonde Danish pilsner style lager, with a flowery subtle aroma, and hoppy fruity flavours with a soft lingering finish.

A festive delight, this traditional barley wine exudes biscuity malts and rich vinous fruits, all balanced by a strong hop bitterness. Warm the soul with this award-winning beer which embodies the essence of Christmas spirit.

Tasting Notes: A Strong Dark Barley Wine. Full of Festive Spirit.

Brewed with malted wheat and barley, this ‘Kristal Weissbier’ contains only English aroma hops. The gentle texture of the wheat subdues the soft hop bitterness and imparts a suggestion of cloves.

Tasting Notes: Clear wheat beer with a light hop bitterness.

Foster's is the ultimate ice-cold refreshment. Its balance of subtle fruitiness and vanilla is ideal for the sweeter-toothed lager lover. The perfect session beer to enjoy with mates.

Tasting Notes: A light-coloured lager style, it presents full malt character with a balanced clean hop bitterness. Combined with a slightly hoppy, but yeasty/malty nose, Foster's lager is a full bodied beer with excellent drinkability.

One of the world's best-loved beers, with sweet smelling aromas of coffee and malt, from the first velvety sip to the last, lingering drop, every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between is pure beauty… pure Guinness.

Tasting Notes: Unmistakeably GUINNESS®, from the first velvet sip to the last, lingering drop and every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between.

Swirling clouds tumble as the storm begins to calm.

Tasting Notes: Unmistakeably GUINNESS®, from the first velvet sip to the last, lingering drop. And every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between.

The Kent village of Hadlow, in the fertile Medway valley, is in one of England''s last hop growing areas and has a great brewing tradition. Harveys acquired a pub in Hadlow and to celebrate this event we brewed an ale using only these local hops.

Tasting Notes: This hoppy pale ale is a recent evolution from the successful bitters of the last century and is an ideal lunchtime pint.

Harveys Porter is brewed from our own recipe dating from 1859. In 1999 it was chosen as the ‘Ultimate Pizza Beer’ in the Beauty of Hops awards.

Tasting Notes: A complex, dark and full-bodied beer with prominent roasted malts, reminiscent of date sugars, and a restrained fruitiness.

Brewed to celebrate the return to Lewes of Rodin’s world famous sculpture The Kiss in 1999. The brew also marks St. Valentine’s Day. A light coloured honeyed brew from a special mash including malted oats.

Tasting Notes: Light in colour, with prominent floral and ginger notes that mellow into a gentle sweet bitterness.

This ruby coloured light mild imparts a delicate hop fragrance on the nose. Originally brewed in 1995 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of this local women’s team of Morris Dancers. Part of CAMRA’s ‘Mild in May’ initiative.

Tasting Notes: This refreshing beer is both soft and full, with a light nutty flavour and delicate green herbaceous notes.

Old Ale was Harvey's Brewery's first beer to win a National Award in 1952. Soft and full bodied, with hints of dried fruits and dates, this is a dark, warming brew that's a firm favourite during the autumn and winter months. Burnt sugars and roasted malts compliment the premium Maris Otter barley, supplanting the light bitterness of aroma hops.

Tasting Notes: Soft and full-bodied, with hints of dried fruits and dates. Rich, dark and warming. To be enjoyed in the autumn and winter months by a roaring fire.

It was first produced in 2005 to celebrate our major summer award at Kensington Olympia for Best Bitter.

Tasting Notes: A cool golden summer ale. Very refreshing with a balanced complexity.

This is an all-malt single hop brew, using freshly harvested Sussex fuggles together with our own spring water to give a ‘taste of the South Downs.

Tasting Notes: Three types of hop and three different malts culminate on the palate providing soft, sweet biscuit flavours offset with a tangy bitterness from the 'green' hops.

Our most famous and popular brand - it makes up over 90% of our total brewing capacity. Winner of the Champion Best Bitter of Britain title at CAMRA's Great British Beers Festival in 2005 and 2006. First brewed as recently as 1955.

Tasting Notes: A superbly balanced session bitter with a prominent hop character.

A dark malty mild. Ideal sustenance when there is physical work to be done. Harveys awards for milds date back over half a century and this style of beer enjoys a long heritage at the brewery.

Tasting Notes: Malty and Mellow. Soft and slightly sweet with a dry, nutty aftertaste akin to an infusion of ground nuts. Refreshing, hydrating and comforting.

Tom Paine is a premium dry hopped bitter named after the celebrated radical who lived in Lewes in the late eighteenth century.

Tasting Notes: A dry hopped, robust pale ale with a full, malty palate. Strong and well balanced, with hints of impending revolution