St Peters Old Style Porter

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

16.9 oz bottle-Pours a dark brown with a decent off white head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. Taste of the same with some bitterness coming through. This medium bodied brew is a pretty decent porter.

This is a nice porter overall. It pours dark and has a medium to full body. Subtle bready aroma. The flavor offers bread, toffee and chocolate, while managing to be slightly bitter and not too sweet. The body seems a little heavy for a porter, but this is an interesting beer overall. The heavy body makes this a better winter beer- maybe I’ll check it out again this winter.

Bottle - Pours dark purple (under light) with an off white head of tight bubbles, which left a nice laing in the glass. Tart fruit almost port like aroma. Bitter up front then a berry taste followed by the malt, lingering fruity port aftertaste.

Light bodied, but with a nice dark pour. Some malts and fruits in the aroma with a roasted flavor.

Bottle as shown. Aroma is coffee, fig and chocolate. Taste is surprisingly bitter (yet fruity), with dark chocolate and tobacco notes, no hops. I did not expect to like this, but due to the bitter, not-toffee-ish, not-biscuitish finish this one is actually drinking quite nicely. More of a winter beer, of course.

Aroma almost nonexistent and what was their was fairly nondescript. Dark roasted malt and nothing else, really. Crystal clear chestnut pour with a little bit of reddish highlights and a creamy eggshell head that left clumps of lacing. Flavor is a little coffee, a little chocolate, and a lot of malt. Medium mouthfeel if not somewhat prickly/fizzy. Meh.

Bottle. Pours dark opaque brown, off white head. Aroma is caramel chewy, port, raisins. Flavor is caramel and port, roasted nuts, anise, pine. Thinner body than I expected but that just makes it easier to drink.

Bottle as shown. Pours a dark amber with a medium creamy light tan head that lasts awhile leaving behind good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is a sweet roasted malt with chocholate and fruit. Thin mouthfeel with a roasted malt flavor with a nice bitter finish. A good porter from St Peters.