St Peters Cream Stout

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

One of the best beers I have ever had. Very complex taste of chocolate, coffe and raisins. Not much alcohol-taste even if it’s respectable 6,5%. To sum it up, I will buy this beer many times.

This is a heavy, dark chocolaty beer that is complex and interesting but for me a bit too heavy, odd, & almost harsh, leaving me uncertain how I truly feel about it. It is opaque black, with a thin but dense, lasting brown head leaving moderate lacing. The aroma is strongly mocha, dark chocolate, coffee and fudge, but with an earthiness rather like old leaves. The taste is similarly very dark chocolaty, rather like burnt dark fudge, sweet, with an earthy and woodsy element and faint sourness. There is even a faint hop element and the taste is complex and interesting.The palate is oily yet lively. It is heavy duty in body and taste even for the style. This is not among my favourite stouts, and I wouldn’t want it often, but sometimes I’ll go for it. I also can defnitely see the attraction and ironically my wife, who is not a beer drinker, rather likes it, in part because it is not bitter.

creamy chocolate aroma. Dark chocolate flavor, slight malty aftertaste. pretty good.

10/27/07: Bottle.
Roasted malt aroma. Black bodied with a rich tan head that is thick and leaves a nice lacing on glass. Flavorful roasted malt and expresso characteristics. Smooth finish which is also slightly sour. This is the best brew I’ve tried from St. Peters.

Very good looking beer. Poured a dark black with a light tan, creamy head of ample size and staying power. RIch aroma of malt, chocolate, and a sweetness. Full in the mouth with a slightly bitter finish.

Nice... Poured black with a caramel colored head. Definite dark chocolate notes with a touch of sweetness. Aroma is that of dark chocolate also... amazing. I don’t know why they call this a cream stout. Definitely worthy of future purchases.

The amazing aroma was evident as soon as I opened the bottle, and as I poured the aroma only got stronger. The initial impression I got was of caramel/molasses, coffee and hops. The pour was beautiful, a pitch black liquid with a thick dark tan head. The flavors are quite balanced, and I experienced four distinct phases. 1) initial hop taste that drowned out everything else 2) then then coffee, and molasses/caramel come through 3) the hops kicked in again right at the back of my tongue 4) a light coffee aftertaste. A very medium bodied stout, but creamy (as it should be) and to me finished slightly bitter because of the hops. Quite an excellent stout, extremely traditional. My first venture into the St. Peters line, and it won’t be my last.

A textbook English stout. Very mild and toffee like in aroma and flavor. It goes down very smooth and the body isn’t as heavy as you think it’d be. The mouthfeel is creamy (duh) with a crisp aftertaste. This would be a good example of stout to show to people who have not tasted good dark beer before.