St Peters Old Style Porter

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.

Aroma is roasted and a bit vinous but minimal. Taste is more complex but still realitivly boring.

<!-- i -->Bottled<!-- /i --> (BB 02/2007).<!-- br --> Dark ruby color, small tan head. Cold coffee aroma. Slightly bitter finish. "Plain porter" as they call it in Ireland.

(Bottle at Haket in Gothenburg) Clear deep red towards dark brown color with a tan to beige head. Chocolate malt scent. Burnt but also fresh and sweet flavor, fresh sweet after taste, like an early morning in September. Spritzy mouth feel and medium bitterness.