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St Peters Old Style Porter

Percentile
80
overall
Brewed by St Peters (UK)
Style: Porter

Bungay, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6453.38/5.03.37/5.05.1%69.7English pint, Stem glass
Commercial Description:
Cask; Regular. Also available brewery conditioned and cold filtered in 500ml bottles.
This fine beer is a blend of a mature old ale with a younger light beer - just as a true Porter should be. The marriage produces an extremely characterful brew which is dark in colour and complex in taste.
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 RAYBOY01 (1827), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Feb 12, 2006  
Love-hate! Love the rich roasted aromas...very classic porter territory here...roasted malt and smoke. Decent enough flavors...chocolate/brown sugar/cocoa/smoke. But, then a pretty prominent astringincy in the finish seems to linger and taint my earlier memories of this one. Thin bodied and a touch watered-down which didn’t help much.


 Quevillon (1522), Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Canada
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Feb 10, 2006  
Quand j’ai vu cette bouteille pour la première fois, je me suis dis: "m’as tu vu la vielle bouteille!" Au moin que le porter ne goût pas le vieux. Le goût de chocolat et de café est très bien.


 turg (156), Quebec, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/515/20
Feb 7, 2006  
Bottle 500ml. Appearance: brown ruby color with thin tan head. Aroma: chocolate, coffee. Flavor: sweetness, light ecoffee.


 jbrus (4842), Delft, Netherlands
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Feb 5, 2006  
Bottled. Very strong aroma of coffee, licorice and black currant. Ruby color, light brown head, very nice lace. Strong flavors as well, licorice, roasted, bitter, coffee finish, long lasting bitterness in the finish. Light body, bit sandy.


 gilvanblight (390), Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/56/103/512/20
Feb 1, 2006  
Really nice dark pour with a thick head that faded quickly. Earthy chocolat smell. Bitter thick taste. Worst problem is a bitter aftertaste that just won’t go away when done.


Pinnhead (93), New Jersey, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 28, 2006  
watery. pours slightly opaque, unimpressive. to me body was meager and flavor lacking, no depth.


jimcook (14), Cathedral City, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/510/104/517/20
Jan 28, 2006  
Love the bottle! Looks like an old medicine bottle. Although I would like to see a stronger head, it’s got a nice slightly-translucent color. Very nice non-burnt coffee flavor, with more effervescence than I would have thought by looking at the head. Overall, an excellent beer.


 TheBeerLover (1019), DC Metro Area, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 28, 2006  
. "Old Style" is a very apt descriptor, as this beer is not brewed as a porter, per say. Porter originally was a blend of two or three different beers, often referred to as Three Threads or Entire, and St Peter’s Old Style Porter is just that, a blend of an older mature ale, and a lighter ale. St Peter’s Old Style Porter pours to a deep caramel/light brown color with a slight tan head that fades, and a soft carbonation. The nose is lightly malty with aromas of pale malt, a touch of chocolate malt, and a slight hint of roast. The palate is soft with flavors of pale and biscuit malt, and hints of chocolate malt flavor. There is light touches of yeasty/estery fruit flavors on the palate as well. This beer finishes biscuity up front, then is balanced with a slight, herbal hop bitterness. This is a very well done old style porter, and I imagine this is what porter really tasted like centuries ago when it was a blend of two different beers. This beer tasted very fresh, and its soft maltiness and body made it a very quaffable pint. St Peter’s markets their bottled beers in a very unique green flask like bottle that is very appealing. This is a great session brew, I could see myself drinking a lot of this beer.



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