St. Peter's The Saints
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"Whisky Beer"
A superb balanced beer with ’smokey’ overtones from peated malt. With a measure of English Whisky from St. George’s Distillery in Norfolk, it is rich in flavour.
"Whisky Beer"
A superb balanced beer with ’smokey’ overtones from peated malt. With a measure of English Whisky from St. George’s Distillery in Norfolk, it is rich in flavour.
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234 reviews
Bungay, England
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0.5l bottle. Pours clear amber with off-white head. Aroma of smoke, malt, british hops, caramel. Taste is malty, smoky, caramel, bitter british hops coming through eventually. Good stuff.
Bottle. As St. Peter's Whisky Beer (The English Whisky Company). Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas of smoed malt and grain. Flavours of grain, white bread, sweet malt, peat and bacon.
On sent très bien le côté tourbé du whisky avec une bière très légère, ce qui la rend très douce et agréable.
Klare, dunkelbraune Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Malziger, fruchtiger Geruch mit Karamell. Geschmacklich malzig, fruchtig mit Karamell und etwas Whiskey, leicht grasig hopfig. Mittlere bis hohe Süße mit leichter Bitterkeit, leichter bis mittlerer Körper mit sanfter Kohlensäure.
Ein Bier, das seinem Namen alle Ehre macht: gereift im Whiskey-Fass und daher mit einer dementsprechenden Note, welche schon ins holzige geht. Intesive Malz- und Fruchtaromen.
Mir persönlich ist es etwas zu brutal, aber Freunde von solchen Bieren werden ihre Freude haben.
A pale tired amber ale with a thin big bubbled off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with light peated notes, light grassy hops, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with loads of bacon, peat whiskey, light treacle, still solid after 4 years.
On bottle @Ølfestival Aarhus.
Pours deep brown, with small head.
Scent: Weak, thin.
Taste: Sweet, thin, watery.
Texture: Soft, little thin. Needs more whiskey.
Wonderful railroad beer! Reminds me of abandoned railroad station, empty & rusty rails. Pretty good with smoked and (or) dried fish.
Hella oxidized aroma in the kind of honey with malty signs. There's no any response from whisky smokiness. Taste is semi dry with hoppy astrigent note with clearish malty base, bit faint barrel hint at the finish. What was that?
Aroma, taste and aftertaste is somewhat bitter with malt, wood, caramel and whiskey. Not bad.
Sample@Ølfestival København 2018 - dark amber coloured pour with off-white head. Sweet and charred smoked malty, light meaty, prominent notes of whisky, wooden accents, medium body, peated smoked and sweet malty into the close.
Már a kitöltés pillanatában is eltűnő hab, mely vékonyan megmarad, színe már-már vörösbe boruló sötét borostyán sárga, illata malátás, whiskey-s, minimálisan alkoholos. Ízében dominál a maláta, visszafogottan keserű, utóízében whiskey-s jegyek fedezhetőek fel.
Pours a bit hazy amber colour, topped with medium sized, foamy tan head. Quite some smoky bacon presence, slight wood but mostly smoke. Smoky taste, medium bitterness. Quite herbal. Medium light body. Too strong on the smoke. Don't like it.
Ikke spesielt godt. Litt rart.
500ml from Upper Glass MA, via BrauArt DÜ Import, MHDFeb19. - - Didn't do my homework and opened this hoping for a dark, postprandial UK whisky stout... - Pours a thicker honeybeige, love such maltcreamy viscosity. Honey and rich, natural caramelcoated barley nose, gentle whisky peat and some heat as it warms. Mouthfilling cakey British mouthfeel, infused with gentle honey whisky and bready scone tones, nothing too expressive. Liked sipping this, but the whiskey peat and especially added splash of whiskey make this an odd one for continental palates...
Not bad. With smokey finish.
Fles 50cl thuis. Ruikt en smaakt naar rookbier. Whisky smaak in de verte. (1-2014).
Bottle at KØ18. Malty aroma, not much whiskey, I guess. Shiny dark copper colour. Small white head. The flavour is also malty. Low bitterness. Watery finish, slightly buttery. A little smoke in the finish. Well-balanced but a bit weak.
I have always really liked these "medicine " bottles from St. Peters Brewery. It's been quite a while to have a brew from them. Happy to have found this botelski, Clear Amber colour, small short lasting head. Peat smoky aroma with toasty malt underneath. Smoky peat flavour, whisky smokey, malty toasty, soft, mild bitterness, lightly dry in the finish. Pleasant, if you like the peaty smoke in your brew.
Bottle from Mitra Baarn, dont know why I bought this. A peated bitter or golden ale, classified as a Scotch? Sounds even more silly. Clear golden orange color, short frothy head. Aroma has toasted malts like most English bitters, some peated notes as expected and slight flowery and herbal hop. Soft herbal bitterness, touch of peat and toast. Typical cask feel to a bottled English beer. Well, I expected even worse, but its not even that bad.
Bottle sample @ De Prins, Rhenoy tasting with Sussanne and Gijs.
Clear dark yellow with a white head. Malty, smokey, bready aroma. Sweet taste with some peat from the whisky. Thin body with low carbonation. Watery finish with some ash. Not that exciting.
bottle (sb iirc). amber golden clear. malty nose- bit old malty
feeling, very earthy, slight peaty smokey, as the label promises, but
with the caramels, feels slightly old. med bodied, caramel sweetness,
light smoke, sea-salty peat, ship roapy. feels like a windy rainy
autumny day in my mouth, by the docks on the scottish coast (they do
have a waterline, right?) or wherever this sort of whisky is made. not
having seen the bottle, I might just think this is a caramelly scotch
ale, innis&gunny, that has gone old, stuffy.
13-07-2017; bottle; at home (don't remember where it was bought).
The looks of the beer are fine. The color of the beer is a nice dark golden yellow. The beer is crystal clear. On top of the beer there is a rather small layer of white foam. Foam retention is rather low. A minimal drape is left after some minutes. Not to special in the looks.
The smell of the beer is nice. It really has the smell of whisky. Besides some simple sweet malts and some nice bitter and slightly acidic, but also rather simple hops, there is a strong peaty aroma. To bad I don't really like that peaty thing, also not in a whisky. But, in there it isn't to bad. It is not to strong, and remains balanced. It is a nice combination with the sweet malts.
The taste of the beer is pretty much the same. Sweet simple malts, which are linked to the nice and peaty iodine flavours. There is also a nice fruity hop flavour, a bit herbal and citric. Not bad. I like the iodine peat flavour. It isn't to strong, it remains in balance with the sweet malts and hops. Good job, because a distinct flavour like this can get to strong quickly. Not bad.
The palate of the beer is nice. Medium light body, smooth texture and medium high carbonation. The finish is nice. It has some nice whisky flavours of iodine and peat, but also a nice sweet malty flavour. Well balanced. All in all, a nice beer. It is more whisky-like than I did expect, which is good. Im pleasantly surprised.
Bottle at home. I’ve always loved the St Peters bottles with their great shape and heft in the hand. Anyway, the beer poured well into the tankard and tasted pretty good too. I have to admit that to me there was no discernible taste of whisky, but there was a level of oakiness lurking in the palate. This was a solid best bitter and I did enjoy drinking it, but not one to seek out again. And I really didn’t taste the whisky.
Brygget med whiskey, og helt klart røgwhiskey. Ved første smag troede jeg faktisk at jeg havde fået en røgøl. Smagen er også meget derhen ad, men bitterheden i eftersmagen er noget mere fremtræden, og røgsmagen fortager sig.
Specialty beer from this classic English brewery, founded in 1996 and housed next to St. Peter’s Hall in St. Peter South Elmham in Suffolk, known for its very recognizable, oval flask-shaped bottles; this one is apparently not only made with a small portion of peated whisky malt, but also contains a splash of English (!) whisky, so a whisky beer in two different ways, you could say. Medium thick, off-white, lacing, very regular head, in the shape of a firm moussy ring and some flat islands in the middle, atop a cristal clear, orange-tinged ’old gold’ coloured beer. Aroma of clear cooked vegetable- and somewhat plastic-like pasteurization, overseeing more flattering hints of dry peat (clearly present but not too overpowering), freshly struck matches, damp cloth, moist flour, dried bitter wormwood leaves, straw, deep fryer oil, scones, lightly toasted white bread, moist cigarette tobacco, peanuts, camomile and indeed whisky, but subtly so and without the alcoholic effect. ’Clean’ and very subdued fruitiness in the mouth, so subdued that it becomes lager-like, but still showing faint background hints of dried apricot and apple peel, dryish from the start with a certain rounded, cereally malt sweetishness readily apparent, in a smooth and slick, lightly oily, softly carbonated environment. The maltiness clearly dominates the onset and the middle, with this cereally factor quickly shifting to a more expressive, toasted, softly bitterish flavour, with thin caramelly edges; the toasted bitterness matches well with a classically (’noble’) hoppy end bitterness in the finish, floral, leafy and peppery, drying the root of the tongue and lingering for quite a while; meanwhile the peat factor has subtly crept in, with a smoky, almost cigarette tobacco-like effect. The added whisky flavour is perceptible but hard to distinguish from this smoky peated malt aspect; generally speaking, a whisky-like effect adorns the end phase of this beer, but in a subtle and non-offensive way. That said, this whisky element is basically the only thing that elevates this beer a bit over the mainstream filtered English pale ale- and bitter-style beers, setting it a bit apart in its own subtle way; if only many of these peated whisky barrel-aged beers with deeper structures and higher ambitions would be able to apply it in this subtle, yet distinctive manner. That said: below this interesting peated and whisky-like factor, this is still a bland, filtered and pasteurized, almost lager-like English ale with an industrial feel to it as a result - and nowhere near a ’Scotch ale’ as it is apparently classified here...
Light opaque yellow, white lacing foam head. Light smokey aroma, some smoke tones in taste. More oak dominated than whisky in taste and aftertaste. (Rotterdam 201702)
Goudgeel, helder, heel weinig koolzuur, snel zakkende schuimkraag.
Aroma: Graan en zoete mouten , iets gerookt, boter, brood/biscuit.
Smaak: Behoorlijk gerookt, zoete pale mout, karamel, graan. De whisky krijg ik niet echt mee... alleen het rokerige als een turf gerookte whisky en iets oak. De basis van dit bier is een zoetige Engelse Bitter. Brood/biscuit en granig/boterig. Geen hele goede dit!
Lichte body, waterig en een rokerige bittere afdronk.
0.5 l bottle. Pours hazy, deep golden with no head. Something was off with this: it was watery, thin and lacked every aroma and taste.
500ml Flasche. Klar und golden mit minimaler Schaumkrone. Komische Aromen. Bisschen Vanille, Gewürznelke und Kräuter. Bitter im Geschmack mit dünnem Körper.