St Peters Old Style Porter

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

Bottle. Pours dark but clear coffee brown with a very small tan head. Aroma of weak coffee, alcohol, light hops. Flavor of weak coffee, super faint chocolate note, not at all bitter hops. Flavor is super light. Finishes with a little bit of coffee and hop bitterness, but that’s about it. Body is real weak; water thin with not even a little bit of carbonation, which in this case makes it feel totally lifeless. Well, this is ok. Maybe it is traditional, with is cool for educational purposes if nothing else.

Medium size head with big bubbles, light tan in colour, deep ruby in body that looks like black from a distance. Some solid rings of lacing with specks filling the gaps in between. Good malt on the nose, lightly toasted also some milk. Taste is not quite up to the appearance or the aroma but not that far behind. Pleasant tar bitterness, meaty broth, coffee and hints of liquorice. Quite liked this porter!

Dark brown, clear, thin tan head. Coffee, raisins, woodsmoke, and cedar. Rich chocolate, coffee, prunes, brown sugar, and ash. Perfectly balanced-- loved it!

The aroma is a disturbing one of smoke and prunes. This beer is brownish-black in color with not much more than archipelagos of suds as a head. The taste is a mild creamy coffee taste that fades fast.

(Bottle 50 cl) Pitch black with a reddish hue. Handsome, creamy head that sticks to my glass. Distinct notes of burned malts, coffee and bitter chocolate - all the right characteristics for a good porter. Dry, fairly light-bodied and very drinkable. An aromatic and pleasant porter. 181201

Pours deep caramel brown with medium carbonation and minimal head retention. Smells of heavy caramel and malt. Thin, runny coffee up front. Finishes more or less the same way she started. In other words, not a whole lot going on except for a solid blend of roasted coffee, heavy malt and a sticky caramel coating on the tongue and lips. A pretty solid porter but nonetheless lacking an identity of it’s own. Would go best with a meal of smoked meats or a chocolate dessert, where the beer would complement the food rather than have to rely on it’s own merits.

500 mL green flask bottle purchased from Home Service Beer Beverage Discount Center, Glenview, NY. Black hued ale having tiny diminishing off-white head. No discernable carbonation. Roasted malt aroma. Thin bodied ale that starts dry with intensely roasted malt bitterness and finishes dry with lingering bitterness. A rather thin bodied, bitter watery beer, this beer was tough to drink.

More of a burnt/roasted flavour than their other porter. Malty aromatic, but with a hoppy finish.