St Peters Old Style Porter

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

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)

Decent porter. Dark brown. No dediment and I am guessing it is filtered. The bottle looks cool, but it is green so no extra points there. Aroma has roasted malt and smells like an oatmeal stout. Thin body. Flavor has the standard porter malt, but does it better than many, though perhaps not better than most. Some nuttiness as well.

(Bottle at Haket, Göteborg) Pours really dark red with a thin white head. The smell is Sweet coffee. A bit sour. Notes of hops and malt. Pretty thin smell. Some salami and lettuce. The taste is roasted malt. Dark chocolate turns to coffee. Not so sweet for a porter. Sour. Small body. Perhaps to little alcohol to cary the taste. Meybee not the best beer from this "crazy" brewery.

[Bottle from Hacket] roasty, chocolate, dark fruit, blackcurrant, liquorice a little thin in the body, dry finish.

A dark reddish brown coloured beer with a thickish, beige coloured head. A toasted malt nose, slightly smokey, liquorice and burnt sugar. The taste is bittersweet, the toasted malt and smokiness comes through from the aroma. Then a dry hop and somewhat cereal flavour carries through to the finish. (Bottle - purchased from the brewery’s stall @ the 2005 Sandringham Christmas Food Fair).

Bottled. Very dark ruby red colour, not much head. Aroma is fruits (dark fruits), plum, a bit amoke and roast. Also coffee is there. Flavour is roasted malts and plum. Very smoked/roasted aftertaste. A good porter, though it is quite watery.