Lewes Castle Brown 500ml

Harvey's Brewery

£45.8

Full malty ‘Brown Ale’ with a creamy head. The mild hops in Lewes Castle Brown linger on a biscuit sweet palate giving way to coffee and liquorice notes. A bitter-sweet finish. A play on the name of another very famous brown ale, Lewes Castle is named after Lewes' own Norman fortress, built after William's conquest of 1066. Food Pairing with Emma Inch: Wild Mushroom Risotto Awards; 2022 INTERNATIONAL BEER CHALLENGE: GOLD 2021 BRITISH BOTTLER'S INSTITUTE: GOLD 2019 BRITISH BOTTLER'S INSTITUTE: GOLD 2016 WORLD BEER AWARDS: ENGLISH BROWN ALE: UK WINNER 2008 WORLD BEER AWARDS: WORLD'S BEST DARK BE

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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.