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Organic English Ale

Published September 2010, Volume 31, Number 4

St. Peters Brewery
Suffolk, England
Imported by: Eurobrew
Ashland, MA

Available: ID, IL, IA, NJ, WI, FL, MD, MI, SC, GA, CT, NC, PA, OH, VA, NE, TN, NY, MA, MO, KS, IN, AL, NH, ME

Water for brewing is extracted from the brewery’s 300 foot deep borehole. The beer is brewed with U.K. Soil Association-accredited light malted barley from Norfolk and  organic Hallertau hops from New Zealand. The yeast used is St. Peter’s own single strand variety.

ABV: 4.56
ABW: 3.54
Color: 14
Bitterness: 32
Original gravity: 1045

  • Roger Protz

    St Peter’s Brewery has a magnificent setting behind a moated Tudor house in Suffolk, eastern England, with a Great Hall that has a raftered ceiling, fifteenth-century tapestries and a portrait of St. Peter before the Basilica in Rome. The beers come in a flagon-shaped bottle based on an eighteenth-century one that owner John Murphy found in a shop in Gibbstown near Philadelphia. History all round. Nice beer, too. It’s extremely pale, with a ripe peaches aroma balanced by rich malt and spicy hops. Hop bitterness builds in the mouth with tart citrus fruit and nutty malt. The finish is dry, bitter and hoppy with a teasing hint of fruit.

  • Garrett Oliver

    The beer that pours from St. Peter’s signature bottle raises a white-ish foam over a lightly hazy honey-colored liquid. The aroma is of hay-like and minty hops with a distant note of cheese. The palate opens with moderate bitterness, somewhat rough, giving way to a spare malt center. The finish is mildly astringent. I cannot find a “best before” date here, and I wonder whether this bottle had seen better days – I certainly enjoyed this beer when I had it at the brewery.

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