St. Peter's Brewery

Microbrewery in Bungay, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1996

Contact
St. Peter’s Hall, St. Peter South Elmham, Bungay, NR35 1NQ, England
Subsidiaries
St. Peter's Brewery owns 2 breweries:
Description
St. Peter's is an independent brewery founded in 1996 by John Murphy in former agricultural buildings adjacent to St. Peter’s Hall in St Peter, South Elmham, near Bungay, Suffolk, England. Siting the brewery at St. Peter’s was ideal because of the excellent water quality from our own deep bore-hole. Locally malted barley is used, together with Kentish hops, to produce a range of classical beers (bitters, mild etc.) as well as some more unusual beers such as honey porter and fruit beer.

Fun fact: The oval shape of its signatory 500 ml bottle is based on an 18th-century gin bottle from Gibbstown, by the Delaware River near Philadelphia, USA.

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7.1
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 6.5

Black with a large fluffy brown head that lingered and left good lacing. Roasty with wood, coffee and milk notes. Long finish. Moderately full bodied and smooth

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2025 at 21:34


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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

0.5 l bottle from 'Brauart', best before April 2026. Clear, deep ruby with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, off-white head. Sweetish-malty, gently fruity and a little herbal-spicy aroma of orange jam, strawberry, toffee and a touch of gingerbread. Quite sweet, malty, moderately bitter, gently fruity and a little herbal-spicy taste of orange jam, strawberry, plum, cinnamon, gingerbread, some toffee and traces of chocolate, followed by a short, moderately bitter, minimally dry finish. Medium to full body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Pleasant Christmas ale, moreish and saturating, very well-balanced.

Tried from Bottle from Brauart (Britische Biere) on 14 Dec 2025 at 18:32


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Dunkelbraune bis schwarze Farbe mit beiger Schaumkrone. Malziger, röstmalziger Geruch. Geschmacklich malzig, röstmalzig mit Schokolade und Anklängen an Kaffee. Mittlere bis hohe Süße mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, mittlerer Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Dec 2025 at 18:44


6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

January 2022: 500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 4.7%. Deep golden colour, moderate white head. Very moderate aroma, weak notes of hops and grain, hints of toffee and biscuits. The flavour has decent hops on a slightly sweet base of moderate malts, with a hint of caramel. Distinct hoppy bitterness in the finish and aftertaste. Not a bad beer, but far from the best offering from St. Peter’s.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2025 at 17:18


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Tried on 08 Nov 2025 at 14:36


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 6.5

Clear copper colour with a nice ivory-coloured head. Caramel, toast, burnt sugar, toffee, pleasant esters, floral, spicy & earthy notes. Somewhat rusty on nose. Medium dry to light sweet. light to medium hop bitterness. Dry ending. Dense texture. Nice pedigree stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2025 at 08:46


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6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask at The Eltham GPO. Strong citrus nose. Lots of bittersweet fruits in the taste. Long bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 22 Oct 2025 at 12:18


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6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

9/10/2025. Bottle from Tesco, Ely to enjoy as a responsible breakfast train beer on the way to Nottingham beer festival. Pours very well. Aroma is malty, caramel, twiggy, dried fruits, worty. Taste has some harsh bitter metallic notes. Not too unpleasant though, there’s some quite pleasing brown sugar sweetness which offesets it and considering what it is it’s actually quite flavoursome. Body is okay too, better than expected. Liked it enough to have the whole bottle.

Tried from Bottle from Tesco Supermarket (Various locations) on 09 Oct 2025 at 08:29


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Flasche 0,5l: Bernstein, glasklar, stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; sehr fruchtige + leicht würzige Nase, Zitrusnoten, exotische Früchte, Mango, Maracuja, florale/kräutrige Hopfennoten, Malz, Getreide, dezente Hefearomen; fruchtiger + leicht würziger Körper, Zitrusnoten, exotische Früchte, Maracuja, Grapefruit, florale/kräutrige Hopfennoten, Malz, spritzig, moderate Kohlensäure; fruchtig-trockener Nachgang

Tried from Bottle from Craftbeer Shop on 03 Oct 2025 at 07:28


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Flasche 0,5l: Kupfer, Kastanienbraun, glasklar, kräftiger stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; fruchtige + kräftig malzige Nase, fruchtig-malzige Süße, dunkle/eingelegte Früchte, florale/grasige Hopfenaromen, kräftig Malz, Karamell, würziger Honig, fruchtig-malzige Bitterkeit; leicht fruchtiger + kräftig würziger Körper, kräftige trockene Hopfennoten, floral/kräutrig, trockene Zitrusnoten, Limettenabrieb, Röstaromen, Röstmalz, Getreide, cremig, moderate Kohlensäure, Kaffee, Muckefuck; würzig-trockener Nachgang

Tried from Bottle from Craftbeer Shop on 19 Sep 2025 at 09:09