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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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


9.3
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 10

0,5 bottle. Tradicionális szép és különleges (dombornyomott) üvegben, de már megújult címkével. Régóta meg akartam kóstolni, köszönöm a kollégámnak a lehetőséget! Kitöltve a sör nagyon szép- fekete mint az éj -, eleinte ujjnyi capuccino színű hab, ami kitöltés után is 1 mm vékonyan sokáig megmarad. Hidegen először "egyszerű" földes, kávés, kakaós visszafogott stout illat. Ez később egyre kávésabb lett. A színe és a test gyönyörű - sem a nap, sem a villany felé nem látszódik át semmi, van benne anyag rendesen :) Korty: nem túlságosan, de azért testes. Nem annyira "olajos" és tömény, inkább könyebben iható. Az alkoholt érezni rajta, de sokkal inkább az ízeket! Nekem annyira nem laktózos, sokkal inkább száraz, kemény kávés jegyeket érezni, ami nagyon stílushű volt. Melegedéskor azért egyre édesebb is lett. Az aroma közben csokoládésabb, édesebb, különlegesebb és a sör is ízesebb lesz. Szénsavassága kevés, de nem is hiányzik belőle. Kizárólag kehelyből kortyolgatva ivós sör. Kiemelkedő, nagyon nagy odafigyeléssel és tapasztalattal készült komoly stout sör. Gratulálok a főzdének, akik már régóta gyárták ezt a finomságot! Végére sok-sok utóíz érezhető, kiemelkedő sör! (Mikor elfogyott, az üres üvegbe beleszagolva egy komoly eszpresszó kávé illata fogadott :)

Tried from Bottle on 16 Sep 2025 at 16:55

gave a cheers!

8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

500ml bottle from Waitrose, in Bath, England. Looks like a liquor bottle. Pours a pitch black color with a tiny beige head and fair retention. Very little lacing. Very faint roasted aroma. Medium dark chocolate flavor with some vanilla/lactose notes, and barely a hint of coffee (thankfully). Very smooth and creamy. Not very roasty. Medium-heavy body. Very low carbonation. Not bitter. Better than I expected. And the 6.5% ABV is invisible. Good beer.

Tried from Bottle from Waitrose Supermarket (Various locations) on 11 Sep 2025 at 23:15


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle from Beru Vykhodnoi in Moscow. Pours clear gold with a small white head. Aroma is biscuit malt, toffee, floral hop. Taste is light sweet, floral hops, malt. Light to medium bitter finish. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2025 at 18:49


Brewery Stats
Score 6.30
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