St Peters Old Style Porter

Arguably my favorite porter to date, St. Peter’s comes in a subtly tinted bottle, so the pour is a surprising dark mahogany instead of deep brown. Roasted aromas give way to chocolatey taste and a very smooth mouthfeel. A beer to be savored in small sips.

Sampled with Stegosaurus and Beerded one. Dark Brown pour with small head. Chocolate malt aroma and taste. Went down smooth. Not bad at all.

The amber fluid glistens out of the bottle into the wide rimmed glass, leaving a modest, yet well-laced, cream head. As this brew moves toward your lips, the whiff of gently alcoholic, roasted barley caresses your nostrils. The brew pours gently past the lips and across the tongue with a surprisingly, and somewhat dissapointingly, light mouthfeel. The limited carbonation, detracts from, but does not negate the mingling of malt and cracked barley, flirting gently with roasted walnuts on the tongue. An altogether credible English porter, like a promise of salvation in the wilderness of American dreck.

500ml bottle bought at Jerusalem Tavern in London and shared with Finn and CatweazleTroms at our arrival in Norwich early on a Sunday afternoon.
Delicate bottle design as always. Small off-white foam over a deep mahogany body. Dark malty aroma. Flavour of coffeebeans, cocoa and malt. Medium palate and easy to drink (24.09.2006).

Bottle 0,5l at The Jerusalem Tavern Clerkenwell London EC1 20 Sep 06. Dark red coloured. A creamy head. Some roastedness but overall impression is watery.

I was a little disappointed with the mouth feel of this porter it seemd far to watery. It poured a nice dark reddish brown hue with a thin tanish head. Aroma was a mix of cocca and roast coffee. Taste was sweet with some bitter coffee notes, kinda watery.

(Cool lookin’) bottle.

Pours a dark, dark ruby with a fairly modest and porous tan head. This one has a lovely porter aroma, not huge so much as nicely nuanced, vinous, a hint of smoke, plenty of chocolately roast grain. The flavor doesn’t quite live up, though it’s close. It’s nice, but not quite as rich as the aroma might suggest it could have been. Here we get plenty of chocolate, again a bit of smoke, vinous notes and apple butter, but on the front end I am hit with a cola sweetness that turns to a metallic bitterness on the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is perfectly nice for the style and ABV.

This one is plenty drinkable, and even worth repeating in the long run, but not something I’m going to be drinking on a very regular basis.

Dark brown colour with a coarse, plae tan head; roast, plum and burnt aroma; sweet taste with raisin, black toffee and boiled sweet aromas:bitter finish with liquorice, smoke and black toffee aromas. This beer is a good example of just how hard it is to spil porter. My tasting notes make it appearbetter than it really was: yes, there was some complexity, but there were other aspects of the beer I was unhappy with. A sugary sweetness in the mouth followed by a quite corse bitterness in the finish. And a very pasteurised taste laid over the top of everything. (48 out of 100 on my scoring). Too sweet for a Porter. (Bottled. Tasted 12th Sept. 2006)