Harveys Brewery Tour - The Best of Sussex // Get Er Brewed

[@RJVEK]

Feeling compelled to write a 2nd comment. In a world of craft brewing, bearded, plaid shirt wearing, Cathart clothing wearing hipsters, this gentleman blows them all out of the water! I could listen and learn from him all day long .

[@modgrip805]

I have a beard and a plaid shirt and am head of production at a foreign brewery making IPAs and NEIPAs etc etc. All i want to do is head to the countryside and make beer like this. I miss cask so much!

[@Vretens]

Beers that look like orange juice and taste like bubblegum or fruitjuice isn’t really my thing. Been homebrewing since early nineties, was really appreciative when the first wave of new breweries came online, taste before profit, but have a hard time enjoying all those ’new’ styles of overhopped brews but it seems thar there is a return to more timetested styles, even though they still have a long way to go. There is nothing better than a Central European lager brewed using only one type of malt and one type of european noble hops (the og smash beer), either step-, or decoctionmashed, fermented for 10~14 days, lagered for at least three weeks, no filtration or pasteurization and served ’ungespundet’. Rant over and🍻.

[@hilary2668]

Hi Chris, I used to deliver crystal malt, once a fortnight too Harvey's Brewer in my younger days. Old Mr Jenner used to greet me on arrival, and always asked if I had a good trip down. He was always dressed in a suit and bow tie, and at Christmas eve I always had to do a delivery, so they had stock for New Year, and he always gave me a crate of beer and said, don't forget to bring the bottles back 😂. He was a real gentleman, one of a kind.

[@Geterbrewed]

Yes would have to agree, genuinely lovely people who really care about their industry and those that they work with

[@scoobtoober2975]

I love nostalga stories. Very heart warming. All jobs used to be so much more dressed up. My great in-laws were dairy famers and you could eat off the walls in the barn. My in-laws, their kids, dairy farm no way Super dirty. The grand in-laws wore bleached bright white jump suits and they were spotless in regular pictures. Or they dressed up. But the barn was spotless, that is hard to do with whipping cow tails covered in poo

[@Geterbrewed]

@@scoobtoober2975 maybe we should all start to wear a suit to work and adopt some of the old ways, good times !!

[@RJVEK]

I went to school in Lewes- a beautiful town and a beautiful brewery. So lucky to have Harvey’s and Shepherd Neame etc still making delicious ales

[@Geterbrewed]

We loved it , such a beautiful area and we got quite captivated with the brewery too

[@davec4955]

It's great to see a brewery that respects it's heritage so well !

[@Geterbrewed]

Such a great experience and a genuinely lovely team of people

[@SCOZ_YNWA]

Super tour. What a top traditional brewery. One to treasure. Great job.

[@Geterbrewed]

Thanks so much, it was a fascinating experience

[@TheSeafordian]

It makes the town smell wonderful.

[@cogeek797]

Thank you for bringing attention to another wonderful Victorian brewery that is still producing cask ale.

[@Geterbrewed]

Yeah it was an incredible experience for us and we have recently found some beautiful examples of cask ale. Does your local sell cask?

[@jamesgoacher1606]

This is MY idea of a Brewery. I feel I should move house to the vicinity. Absolutely marvelous.

[@Geterbrewed]

Yeah i definitely felt that a return trip could be on the cards for us too, the fresh cask ale made by Harveys was genuinely delicious. Have you tried their beers?

[@jamesgoacher1606]

@@Geterbrewed No, I live in Milton Keynes and I do not drink in Pubs very often now-a-days cos I cannot afford it and I make a mean pint myself (for the last 40-50 yrs or so). It is just that your vid reminded me of an organised Brewery Trip to Hansons of Kimberly lots of years ago when I lived in Ilkeston Nr Nottingham and Derby and the guide/owner made reference to some modern day stainless steel kit just installed was that it was what the women liked to drink (The beginning of the 'measured pint' era and what were called 'Cask Beers' I think, insipid fizzy stuff) I regret not knowing more about home brew all grain brewing at that time but they also had open top fermenters. Looked a bit like small tiled Sauna Plunge Pools and the contrast between that area (pristine/sterile) to the rest of the place (agricultural 🙂) was abrupt. They are alas, no more, taken over by Mansfield Ales I think while I wasn't looking. Many thanks for your Field Trip type vids btw.

[@Geterbrewed]

@@jamesgoacher1606 nice one thanks for sharing with us

[@deathkid411]

This was really cool. I think this has been my favorite so far. I hope one day to visit these old brewery's. I am in the USA now.

[@Geterbrewed]

Yeah its definitely one of our favourites so far. The experience was simply extraordinary! Interested to know Do they serve cask ale in your area in the USA?

[@deathkid411]

@@Geterbrewed I think "east Brothers" has one some times. I have been thinking about jumping from bottle conditioning to a cask set up for my home brew tho. Skipping the keg thing.

[@deathkid411]

@@Geterbrewed No not real. East brothers in Richmond CA sometimes has one but that's it sadly. I have been thinking about trying to do it for my home brew tho.

[@Geterbrewed]

@@deathkid411 yeah one of our customers Rough Brothers started producing cask and he did a stunning homebrew cask using a plastic Speidel FV as the cask when he first started out

[@paulshirley6383]

Harveys Brewery Tour LOVE LOUIS SHIRLEY

[@filmscorefreak]

This really makes the weird/trendy stuff like milkshake IPAs seem like a Saturday Night Live parody lol. Great video! Love the tradition, never lose it. Cheers from the US!

[@Geterbrewed]

Is cask ale available in the US? still blows our minds the reach this channel gets thanks for chatting

[@filmscorefreak]

@@Geterbrewed Some places do have cask, but they're few and far between. It's catching on a bit in homebrewing though, people using kegs as casks and rigging up beer engines. I've only bottled my UK-style brews (actually i've kegged a few too, but still no cask), someday would like to have a proper setup. cheers!

[@duckman5642]

One of the Best Bitters of all time. As stated on a tour at Fullers.

[@johnpirie4804]

During the pandemic Harveys were some of the few brewers selling draught beer which they packaged in polypins for home consumption. I live in the Manchester area and when I ordered there was next day delivery. Excellent service. I have met Miles Jenner on two occaisions and he a true gentleman. I have also bought directly from their shop in Lewes and they are a pleasure to deal with. Whenever I visit Sussex I always stay in Lewes. If Harveys closed Sussex would not be the same again.

[@irish1759able]

It's a great brewery and lovely town

[@Geterbrewed]

Have you been on the tour?

[@irish1759able]

I haven't, but drank plenty of their beers. When I live in the UK wasn't far from Lewes

[@Geterbrewed]

@@irish1759able yeah i really enjoyed their old ale when we visited , such a lovely town too

[@dbdb8934]

Wonderfull, there can't be many traditional breweries still going these days, credit to them👍

[@Geterbrewed]

Yeah really impressed us with the quality they are producing too

[@scoobtoober2975]

Brewing network host, jamil said this is the best brewery in the world. I need to visit. Love to see it in action. Keep it up. Distro to USA please please please Speckled hen has made it here in bottles in great shape. Please please

[@Geterbrewed]

Its definitely one of the best brewery tours we have every done and in such a beautiful location too. Any brewery tours in the USA you'd recommend?

[@scoobtoober2975]

@@Geterbrewed New Belgium in fort collins. But i havent been in a while. It was good back then. I'd rather suggest just brew hopping to a bunch of places. I'm in loveland CO, verboden brewing. but Denver is hopping with lots of great places. Traditional to wild. Traditional is Prost or bierstdt lager house. Wild is trve or cooked stave

[@Geterbrewed]

@@scoobtoober2975 yeah we would love to visits some breweries in the states at some stage

[@Ms.Bookworm]

This kind of set up is much more charming to me than seeing stainless steel throughout, I'd pay to go on a brewery tour here

[@Geterbrewed]

Yes 100% agree definitively one of the best brewery tours we have ever done. Have you tried their beer?

[@Ms.Bookworm]

@@Geterbrewed no I'm in Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@BrewabitRick]

What an incredible place and some brilliant bits to the video but that yeast room I wish it was smelly KZbin fantastic cheers 👍🍻

[@Geterbrewed]

Yeah the aroma was stunning. Have you tried their beers?

[@BrewabitRick]

@@Geterbrewed no I don’t think I have but I probably should 👍🍻

[@Geterbrewed]

@@BrewabitRick if you see it def worth a few pints

[@larmckenna]

Possibly the most well read and articulate tour guides I've seen. Very intriguing tour. Will there be any more detail shared on their aquifer or they're energy reducing no boil methods? Loved the short of their open top yeast proogation (I think that's what it was). Reminded me of chefs table pizza edition where incredible pizza makers are propagating their pizza yeast and dough over days and days. Incredible craft and tradition.

[@Geterbrewed]

Thankyou, Miles was the perfect host! We do have plans to look at Open Top Fermentation in the future with them and possibly a collab brew

[@martinporter]

Less than 1km from Where I live! 🥰 I’ve been on the brewery tour a couple of times and it is so worth doing!! Did you get a chance to pop into our other breweries in town? Abyss and Beak. So lucky to have three breweries of such high calibre in my town. They’re the inspiration for me to start home brewing myself.

[@Geterbrewed]

We didn’t have time to visit the others but will definitively try to do so at another time

[@deathkid411]

what was the hop filtering thing they were talking about? I did not see it.

[@Geterbrewed]

I think Dillon missed the footage of it on the edit

[@ArohaKiwi]

Was it not just that the hop leaf forms a mat on the bottom of the kettle and after boil they can draw the worts off through it leaving the trub behind?

[@Geterbrewed]

@@ArohaKiwi yes they also do that

[@wildrangeringreen]

a hop back is essentially a drum that you fill with hops and then run the wort through. The hop cones form a filter for the wort, and it can yield a much cleaner wort, along with imparting a large dose of aromatics and flavor to the finished beer.

[@charlesjohnson5811]

What about their pilsner? Surely quite a different story

[@Geterbrewed]

Yeah they used their house yeast on the Pilsner and we tried it, it was a lovely beer

[@ajmarshall1021]

👍👍👍👍

[@m.m.musasi]

👍

[@matthewbrown5677]

Mills is the best