St Peters Best Bitter

Brewed by St Peters (UK)
Style: Bitter
Bungay, England

This is a nice session ale with an aroma of fruity esters and resiny hops. The flavour starts with spicy hops, but turns piney and citrusy with a long, dry finish. Malt flavour is there, but it’s subtle.

frothy thick head on a misty amber pour good carbonation.Aroma malt,mild honey.Flavour buttery,malt oily,nice bitter,bit of a creamy touch.Fruit tastes citric like a grapefruit taste.This is not tops but a session ale.Finish bitter dry.

50 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a creamy off-white head. Dry breadish malt aroma. Flavour is mild bitter and with a light breadish dry note. Light breadish finish with slowly growing bitterness.

Bottled. Butterscotchy aroma with musty tea leaf hop back-up, and faint (milk) chocolate. Clear red and lacy. Pleasant bittering hop and caramelised malt. A teaspoon of soil. Chalk, wood, walnut, caramel, slight chocolate. Solid, flavoursome BB.

500 ml bottle. Golden, pale reddish body with an off-white head. Aroma is a bit strange, boiled vegetables, not very nice. Flavor is weak bitter, not harmonic and a long harsh finish. Something might be wrong with this bottle.

500mL bottle purchased from LCBO. Thank Dog for the LCBO employees who are there to cross out the 3.7% alc/vol label and affix their own 4.4% label! There’s my tax dollars well spent. Pours a slightly cloudy light gold. Light funky hop aroma. Flavour is rather nice, particularly in the bitter aftertaste.

A Mes rate: Bottle at the Jerusalem Tavern.
Copper coloured with a thin bubbly head. Straight forward caramel malt aroma with slight tobacco and tea. They both come to the front in the flavour and I dont much care for it in all honesty but some nice nutty and hoppy notes save the day. Just.

Brown bottle, 500 ml, purchased at the LCBO on December 22 2007, savoured on January 21 2008; eye: amber, no effervescence, clear, beige head that does not last, a bit of lacing; nose: hops is quite present but also quite malty, cardboard, light caramel; mouth: bitterness, malt, light cardboard, light caramel, bitterness, finale all in bitterness with some cardboard, not much carbonation, mildly bitter, slightly sweet, medium body, a bit thin, slightly grainy texture, light astringency; overall : so? FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 500 ml, achetée au LCBO le 22 décembre 2007, savourée le 21 janvier 2008; œil : ambrée, pas d’effervescence, claire, mousse beige qui ne reste pas longtemps, un peu de dentelle; nez : houblon très présent mais aussi très malté, carton, léger caramel; bouche : amertume, malt, léger carton, léger caramel, amertume, finale toute en amertume avec un peu de carton, peu carbonatée, moyennement amère, très légèrement sucrée, corps moyen, un peu mince, texture légèrement rugueuse, légère astringence; en résumé : bof