St. Peter's Winter Ale
Cask: Seasonal - Winter. Also available brewery conditioned and cold filtered in 500ml bottles.
A deep ruby red strong ale with an excellent balance of malt sweetness and hop bitterness. A classic example of a
’winter warmer’; high in alcohol and rich in taste.
A deep ruby red strong ale with an excellent balance of malt sweetness and hop bitterness. A classic example of a
’winter warmer’; high in alcohol and rich in taste.
3.5
603 reviews
Bungay, England
Community reviews
Pours a dark brown colour with a beige coloured head
Notes of roasted coffee and roasted toffee caramel and vanilla
Bottle version from the brewery
Aroma : Deeply toasted sweet toffee malt, rich malt loaf, autumnal red fruits with a good dolop of christmas cake spice mix and a little fusty/earthy note. Taste : As aroma. Rich and full bodied. Moderatly bitter throughout but with a light sweet undertone and a little alcohol burn in the finish. Excellent
Bottle 500ml. Very dark reddish brown. Tanned head. Sweet aroma with plums, malts and toffee. Taste is suprisingly bitter, almost a bit tangy. Heavy on caramel, burnt sugar and berries.
bottoglia 50 cl, schiuma color cappuccino fine media persistenza, colore marrone/nero, al naso cacao caffè caramello vino porto, in bocca vino liquoroso caramello cioccolato fondente frutta secca liquirizia, corpo rotondo, watery, acidula, carbonazione moderata, amaro accentuato lungo nel finale. Pensavo meglio. Ultima birra dell’anno. Buon anno! c. Bottega della birra Arona 31.12.19
Flaska 500 ml från Systembolaget. Rödbrun med smutsvitt skum. Doft av malt, kakao, kaffe och torkad frukt. Smak av rostad malt, torkad frukt, lakrits, kaffe och choklad. Rejäl beska och med en bitter eftersmak med inslag av salt. En mycket trevlig öl som passar fint till julmat.
Dark brown color, small beige head. Aromas of toffee, molasses, nuts and dried fruit. Taste of molasses, caramel, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate and alcohol. Creamy mouthfeel.
In a nice bottle: a beautiful black beer with a brown, medium-lasting but sticky foam. Its aroma is not very pronounced, fresh earthy, moderately roasted malt. Rather, it is malted. Medium-bodied, well-drinkable brown. I can imagine: sipping on an English pub ... Oily, real English brown beer. Nevertheless, it is not outstanding.
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Szép üvegben egy gyönyörű fekete sör, barna,közepesen tartós, de tapadós habbal. Illata nem túl markáns, friss földes, visszafogottan pörkölt malátás. Inkább csak malátás. Közepesen testes, jól iható barna. El tudom képzelni egy angol pub-ban kortyolgatva... Olajos, igazi angol barna sör. Ennek ellenére nem kiemelkedő.
Lijkt op porter. Lekker bittere nasmaak. Donkere ale
Bottle from Beers of Europe.
Appearance - dark mahogany brown with some red chinks.
Nose - dried fruits such as prunes and raisins. Then spice. Light smoke.
Taste - burnt raisins and smoke. A hint of molasses but not quite.
Palate - medium bodied at least. Rich, persistent finish.
Overall - good stuff.
Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours near black with a thin beige head. Aromas of treacle and light spice. Raisins, Christmas cake almost. Taste is light sweet, toffee, tar, light smoke almost, more spice. Rich and complex.
Bottle at the Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell. Purplish black with a creamy off-white head. Plums, bitter cooking chocolate and slate in the aroma. Sweet spicy taste. Plum pudding, raisins, brandy and vinous tannins in the taste. It turns more bitter in the middle of the sip.liquoruce and more plums in the finish. Medium carbonation. Masterful.
From the bottle. Brown with a thin, creamy beige head. Aroma of peat, toffee, cofee and burnt toast. Taste is mildly bitter, dominated by the burnt grain flavors that set the overall tone. Oily, medium body although it could stand a more chewy character. At times it feels too light. Still nice though.
Aroma of red dried fruits with molasses, gigerbread and milk chocolate back. Taste is semi dry with ashy notes which scratch the tongue, some sunflower seeds and bit caramel note. Dry, but not really pleasant in the long run.
Tap@Tuulensuu, Tampere, Finland. Medium, balanced nuances of soft dark fruits, some averagely roasted malts, dark chocolate. Medium taste spectrum and medium aftertaste with slightly roasted malts. Medium /light body with medium carbonation. Overall, lively though bit light product. Nothing special. 6 3 7 3 13
Bottle from Systembolaget. Aroma of dark fruit, caramel, smoke, spices. Pours dark chestnut body and beige head. Taste is rich with caramel, dark fruit, smokiness, alcohol. Very enjoyable and my favorite among the Christmas beers I tried this year.
Bottle from Systembolaget. Much much darker than I imagined. Dark chocolate, tobacco. i imagine much better on cask at teh Jerusalem Tavern!
This dark brown and almost headless ale comes with a rich, malty aroma: Christmas pudding, plum, treacle, a hint of coffee, some roastiness... you can even detect a wee 'burnt' edge if you open your mind to it. On the tongue, it starts out dry and then turns bitter-sweet, with the bitterness lingering longest. Wintery? Yes, definitely. But this brew is also amazingly and yet unobrusively complex. My only gripe is its strangely 'filling' quality: Even though it's neither a real ABV monster nor too sweet or syrupy, I can't see myself ever craving more than half a pint (and not much else to follow). But it's delicious in small doses!
6.5%
500ml bottle
Local LCBO
Nice and strong
Bière de 500 ml de couleur brun-roux très foncé, sans col apparent. Au nez, arômes de mélasse et de rotie brûlée. En bouche, malt rôti et fruits foncés. Agréable à boire mais son goût acqueux me laisse perplexe.
0,5 litre Bottle from Systembolaget Charlottenberg. Almost Black with beige head. Roasted malts, hops, sweetness, Chocolate and coffee.
500ml bottle; BB 4th Sep 19. Poured into one of their (St Peter's) new tall pint glasses at home on 27th Apr 18. Dark, ruby body, thin beige head. Malty and heavy in both the nose and taste, chocolate notes within the maltiness, semi-sweet with a good bitterness at the end of each sip/gulp. Mild vanilla notes as the beer warms a little in the glass. Liked it.
Dark brown-red with a tan head. Aroma is malt, chocolate, hops and some sweet spices. Taste is sweet malt, chocolate and spices with a hoppy finish.
Smells of chocolate, stout and ale aromas. Pours a dark amber colour. No head. Taste of chocolate and mild spices. Almost a mix between a chocolate stout and ale. Almost no carbonation Overall I was not disappointed. This is exactly what I would like to sip on a cold day leading up to Christmas. Will buy again. MB The Beer Bearon
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Nice winter ale.
Bottle 6,5% color is black with a small brown head. Aroma is chocolate and coffee. Taste of chocolate malt and caramel with an aftertaste of coffee. Overall a pleasant beer
Flaska från SB. Svårt kulör med beige skumkrona. Doft och smak av mörk choklad, kaffe, lakrits och tjärpastil. Frisk, mediumfyllig och ganska söt munkänsla.
Donker, bijna zwart bier met nauwelijks een schuimkraag. Aroma van mout, karamel, toffee, koffie. Zoete mouten en een licht koffiezuurtje. Waterig en vlak, weinig body. Mwah.
Klares dunkelrot mit relativ wenig Schaum. Malzig, brauner Zucker, etwas Karamell, würzig, trocken, leicht bitter.
God og spændende øl. Dejlig på en kold eftermiddag. Gog fylde og fin eftersmag
Bottle at home as a take-out from The Old Jerusalem Tavern. A lovely mahogany pour into the tankard with a respectable head. The nose was a gentle molasses and malt and both were clearly evident in the flavour. There was some balancing bitterness against that molasses, but there wasn't much else to the flavour profile. If anything I would say that the flavour was quite short. The mouthfeel was enhanced by the bite of the alcohol, but at the end of the pint I have to say that I was underwhelmed.