St Peters Cream Stout

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

I have been trying quite a few stouts lately and someone recommeded this one. Very dark pour - dark brown to black. It has a very creamy or soft feel in the mouth. Wonderful flavors of chocolate and coffee. Very good and I will be drinking this one again.

Thin opaque black pour with a light tan head. Very creamy aroma with lots of lactic acid, berries, chocolate. Fruity and almost wine like. Slightly sweet cream flavor followed up by intense bitterness highlighted by coffee grounds. Alcohol on the finish. Very smooth.

500mL bottle from the LCBO. Pours a black yet still somehow translucent colour with a small brown head. The aroma is your typical good stout qualities, lots of mocha and chocolate. The flavour is really nice, very rich mocha, lots of bitterness balanced by the sweeter dark caramalt. Now that’s a stout! Great body and mouth-feel to it, the 6.5% abv is a very nice touch. Definitely a great beer for colder evenings. Evident hops as well which is something I don’t really get with most stouts, but is quite welcomed here. Not much like other ’cream’ stouts/porters I’ve had though, but still very well done.

[500 ml bottle from systembolaget] Wonderful aroma with dark rosted coffe and chokolate. The colour is nice and black with a brown head. Flavour is smooth and creamy with roasted coffe, chokolate and hops.

500 ml bottle from LCBO, served cold in a tulip glass.

App.: Very dark brown-black, remnants of a greyish-light mocha head. Aroma: Dark chocolate and black coffee (fairly dark roast), is it the name or is there a cream-like note?, a bit ashen, a touch of savoury, wee hints of brine and soy sauce. Palate: Medium body, soft carbonation, smooth and silky with a slight astringent edge. Flav.: The coffee and dark chocolate and joined by a grape-like taste, a creamy taste (the power of suggestion again), some ash and minerals, slight vanilla; feels substantial and full, leaves a dark black coffee finish that is slightly bitter and slightly tangy.

Certainly one of the better offerings from this brewery.

Not a bad beer. Quite a heavy and full bodied mouthful but it suits the style really well. Dark bitter chocolates and a hint of RIS-like fruit cake on the nose. Good structure and intensity here. Lightens off in the mouth but both the fruitcake and chocolate notes hang around. Relatively dry finish and the hops certainly kicked in strongly for the style. One of the better stouts I’ve had for some time.

500 ml oval bottle from the LCBO. a damn nice looking bottle that ill be adding to my collection. served at cellar temp in my session mug. pours black with a small tan head. aromas of roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. the aroma isnt bad or lacking in any way but is doesnt quite live up to the flavour. the flavour profile on this stout is awesome. you’re greeted with warming melted chocolate, which progresses into a smooth creamy mocha coffee middle and then you get a dose of hop and coffee bitterness. damn this is good stuff. ill be back to the LCBO to stock up for the winter months.

500ml bottle: Decants a deep black nectar into the glass. Small off white cap. Aroma is glorious! Figs, cocoa, roasted coffee, toasted grain aromas light grass notes... stout aroma in spades. Rich silky mouth feel, big roast malt and hop astringence ride along with toasty grains in the front...mid palate you get some complexity with some dried fruits, bitter cocoa, pipe tobacco, medicinal hops....finishes slow and wet with lots of bitter cocoa and metallic hops with a kiss of sweetness then a charred toast after taste... excellent example of a prime Burton-style stout.