St Peters Cream Stout

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

In short: Typical stout with a usual but complete array of flavours of the style. Unfortunately marred by a lack of body. Decent brew.
How: Bottle 500ml, age unknown but drank within a few weeks after receiving it. Courtesy of hopscotch, thanks a lot Eric
The look: Black body topped by a tan sheet of foam.
In long: Strong black coffee aroma. Taste is rather simplistic. Roastiness level is medium-high. Initially the flavour is halfway between a cup of black coffee and roasted coffee beans. As the beer warms up some dark fruits (figs and such), some black chocolate and some vanilla start coming out. A bit dry. Body is thinner than it should be, even a little watery. Carbonation is appropriately medium. The thinner body and vanilla flavours gives a barrel aging impression. All in all a pretty standard stout like I’ve had many many times before, a strange sensation of déjà-bu.

This is the first beer of a long list that I need to re-rate due to my maturing palate. Pours deep dark brown with light amber hues noticeable on the sides. Very thin tan head. Smells of sweet cream and roasted malts. This beer has a medium body which harbors a delicate sweet cream flavor against a deep roasted malt backdrop. Finishes lightly hopy along with burnt coffee and earthy notes making their way forward as well.

It’s not by chance it’s called a cream stour. The palate is something special, with its lingering in the mouth. The taste is rather run-of-the-mill but still pleasant.

50 cL bottle. Pours black with a minimal redish glare and a dense chocolate brown and creamy head. Chocolate aroma, vanilla yet also slight chalky. Chocolate and roasted malt to slight smoked malt flavour. Light acidic touch and medium to fully dry. Growing bitterness lurking out of the massive malt flavours into the finish.

Bottle. Black color with a brown head. Sweet and roasted aroma with notes of chocolate, coffee, milk and caramel. The taste is roasted and a bit sweet, but not as sweet as the aroma. Notes of coffee, dark chocolate, licorice, tar, milk and hop bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel.

500ml bottle. Pours dark, with little or no head. Chocolate, malt and roast hops on the nose, and rounded on the palate. Decent beer.

Bottle. Thick dark brown/black colour with creamy brown head. Aroma is chocolate, malt, coffee, roasty, Flavor is much of the same, with a thick mouthfeel. Good.

The bottle pours thick cola color with moderate orange hued tan head. As it warms aromas of roasted coffee, alcohol and chocolate. The flavor is sweet chocolate with a nice bitter bite, medium bodied. Delicious.