(Bottle 50 cl) Clear warm mahogany with a small, rough, off-white head. Aroma of cinnamon and roasted malt. Medium-bodied, hard roasted/burned malt dominate with a whiff of cinnamon in the finish. Distinct bitterness from the malt. OK, but quite odd. 040307

A clear orange beer with an orange head. The aroma is sweet malty with loads of wheat and light dusty hoppy notes. The flavor is sweet malty with a light touch of wheat. An OK beer, but boring compared to the rest of the St. Peters lineup.

Cask at Jerusalem Tavern, London. A hazy orange beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is strong of ginger, and the flavor is sweet with ginger being the most dominant note, but on a nice malty back ground.
Earlier Rating: 10/5/2005 Total Score: 3
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with an orange head. The aroma is fantastic with strong notes of ginger and lemongrass. But the flavor besides containing lots of ginger also has a weird plastic note to it.

Bottled. The bottles from St. Peters looks really nice, and this beer looks quite nice as well. Clear, deep golden with a small off-white, almost beige, head. A bit roasted aroma with caramel and unfortunately some notes of cooked vegetables. The flavor is a bit boring, with caramel, some roastiness and hops. The body is said to be full, I find it too thin. Maybe not for an English bitter, but thin anyway. It has a long, lightly hoppy and metallic finish. I’m not too pleased with this one. Rating: 5-4-4-2-9-2.4. (060216)

Bottle, thx to tarjei. It pours a clear, golden body under a small, off-white head. Malty and bready aroma with a pleasant citrusy touch. Boring though. The flavor is much the same, with the bready maltyness blending nicely with the hops, but without being interesting at all. Decent bitterness lingering. Sure, it’s a drinkable beer, sessionable and well-tasting, but also utterly boring. (081108)

Aroma hints of rubber - so some might say skunky. Underneath there’s some malt. Nice golden amber color with a white head that laces a bit. Starts with that rubbery component, moves on to malt. So where’s the hop? There’s a flowery note, and the finish has bitterness that is strong. This stuff finishes well, but it might be easy to be put off by the rubbery start. Later note: After sipping through this for an hour or so, I realized the rubber note was no longer noticeable. Decent IPA. Letting it warm up for sipping over an hour or so really let it develop into something tasty.

Bottle: Reddish-amber coloured, small lacing foamy layer; first comes an aroma of honey, giving later way for cacao-powder and chocolate; demi-sec bitter flavour, light to medium bodied, soft MF; again honey, caco, milk and a bit of coffe in the mainly dry bitter finish. Yes, a pleasant porter, especially for apiarists.........

Bottle, 6.5%. Almost black colour, dark brown head. Fizzy beer, but the head is still semi-stable. The flavour is a bit sweet, but very pleasant. Has some sweet liquorice. Not alcoholic, but it seems to warm. Very late roasted flavour, perhaps a little rye bread. OK carbonation, pleasant to drink. Overall, a very flavourful beer which is still very drinkable.

Pour is a golden with almost no head. Aroma is light but there are some hops there. Flavor is a little burnt with hops showing up but nothing overpowers. Overall pretty weak in the hop dept and kinda watery. This was prob how IPA’s tasted back in the 1800’s but they are nothing like their modern cousins.