Harvey's Spirit of Sussex

Harvey's Brewery

£30

Clear Malt Spirit. Produced from Maris Otter barley grown in Sussex and floor malted at Warminster, Britain's oldest working maltings. It is mashed at Harvey's Brewery in Lewes with fresh spring water from the South Downs. Harvey's have traded as Wine and Spirit Merchants in Sussex for more than two centuries. 50cl, 42% ABV , brewed at Harvey's Brewery and distilled at the English Spirit Distillery. This unaged spirit can be enjoyed chilled as a digestive, it also works well with Ginger Ale. Subsequent batches will be put into Oak casks and aged, then bottled as Whisky when the time is right.

Harvey's Brewery's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as HARVEY & SON (LEWES) LIMITED, number 00235093. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "With his sons, John Harvey acquired the current Bridge Wharf Site in 1838 for the price of GBP 3,100." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.