Organic Ale
St. Peter's Brewery Co Ltd

Organic AleOrganic Ale
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From:
St. Peter's Brewery Co Ltd
 
England, United Kingdom
Style:
English Pale Ale
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
79
Avg:
3.42 | pDev: 16.67%
Reviews:
82
Ratings:
118
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 05, 2018
Added:
Mar 02, 2003
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  11
Organically grown light malted barley and hops create a refreshingly wholesome flavoured ale with a delicate character. Brewed with skill and patience in one of Britain's finest small breweries.
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Reviewed by GreenCard from Maryland

4.17/5  rDev +21.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Appearance: light brown, good clarity, low head formation and not much foam

Aroma: crusty malt and herbally hops under a skunkiness, hints of strawberry and faint orange

Flavor: bready/biscuity maltiness, faintly sweet, somewhat nutty (like a Newcastle), twinge of acidity, grassy hop flavor, dry finish with a long-lingering citrus-peel bitterness

Mouthfeel: medium body, fine carbonation, slightly alkaline

Other comments: This beer can be quite vapid if you get one from a supermarket shelf, but I just tried one from a closed 24-pack (unskunked) and it is pretty damn good. Really fresh tasting. Could drink gallons of this beer, but it has to be fresh!
Mar 28, 2005
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 2.87 by PhillyStyle from Georgia

Sep 05, 2018
 
Rated: 3.48 by avisong from Virginia

Aug 19, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by DmitryVolganin from Russian Federation

Jun 07, 2018
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.29/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Bottle from Whole Foods. Dark gold n, hazy, small foamy head. Sweet aroma, malts. More malts in the taste, honey. Sweet, with a small tingle of bitterness. Not too bad.
Mar 15, 2018
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Reviewed by TheBierdimpfe from Canada (QC)

3.56/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bright golden color with no activity. Light creamy beige 1 finger head, lasting around 2 minutes, with poor legs and swirl reaction. Flavors of butterscotch, sweet barley, pears, and floral hops. Light to medium strength finish, mostly caramely and grainy with soft hops. Slick medium body with a moderate crisp. Really nice smell, good freshness. Not much complexity, but still a good classic craft pale ale overall.
Jan 30, 2018
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Reviewed by metter98 from New York

3.46/5  rDev +1.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
A: The beer is clear yellow amber in color and has a slight amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a short white head that left lacing on the surface.
S: Light to moderate aromas of pale malts and toffee are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell, having flavors of pale malts, caramel malts, and toffee along with notes of fruity yeast.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation. Faint bits of chewiness are noticeable.
O: While being malty, this beer has enough in the way of underlying hops so that there is no apparent sweetness. It goes down very easily.

Serving type: bottle
Feb 23, 2017
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Reviewed by ordybill from Georgia

3.5/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 16.9 OZ flask shaped bottle into a pint glass. The appearance is a cloudy golden color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is slightly skunky. The taste is a little buttery with some yeast and hops. A decent beer.
Jun 05, 2016
 
Rated: 4.09 by The_Kriek_Freak from Pennsylvania

Apr 26, 2016
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Reviewed by Martine from England

4.19/5  rDev +22.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours clear golden amber-copper from a bottle into a tulip glass. Off-white head is 1 finger high, frothy, and fleeting leaving minimal lacing. The bottles from this brewery always caught my eye, very elegant.

The first to arrive on the nose is biscuit malt, grain, cream, and caramel. Very fresh orange citrus lingers just below the surface, as well as a slight astringency, and earthiness.

The flavours are dominated by that gorgeous biscuit malt, giving one the feeling of drinking rich tea biscuits that lingers well into the aftertaste; I'm almost reminded of the Augustiner Helles Lagerbier from the character of the flavours. Along with malt you get barley, earthy yeast, and sweet creamy caramel on the sly. Citrus is present but only on the sip and swallow where that orange comes through like in the nose, ontop of hops, and an almost peatiness.

It feels lightly carbonated, and a bit more than just light bodied from the creaminess present. It goes down very well, malty yet refreshing.

I have to say the sunder in the reviews is quite odd from my point of view. I find this ale full of flavour, beautifully yeasty, and malty with a fresh undertone to it that makes it very drinkable. I would certainly seek out again which isn't too difficult as it's abundant in my local supermarket. St Peter's hasn't put out a bad beer as far as I'm concerned, and this organic ale is no exception.
Mar 04, 2016
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Reviewed by Spike from England

4.07/5  rDev +19%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
An aggressive pour produces a half finger of foamy white head. Pale amber, perfectly clear, with a little carbonation. Very pretty.

A delicate nose. Some sweet malts escape when swirled plus a faint earthiness.

Crisp, clean, English hop profile. Not dank at all. Malt comes through nicely as well.

Medium/light body with some carbonation. Lovely balance of refreshment and bitterness. Extremely drinkable.

Great example of a pale English bitter. Can be drunk in quantity without destroying either your palate or your brain. Clean, refreshing...bitter! Depending on your mood can be drunk with equal pleasure at cellar temperature or chilled. Mine was chilled.
Feb 24, 2016
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Reviewed by Fredex8 from England

1.4/5  rDev -59.1%
look: 4 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
I honestly cannot think of another time when I have had a beer that was actively unpleasant to finish. Even average or bad beer is still beer and therefore great.

This tastes like sucking on a pub carpet to get a drag of the stale ale spilt there the night before. It even smells unpleasant. If this is what 'organic' ale tastes like then I'll take good old fashioned GM super hops sprayed with a liberal helping of pesticides any day.

This beer is actually better drunk straight from the bottle and not poured. That way you don't have to smell it.
Jul 24, 2015
 
Rated: 3.72 by risenz from England

Jun 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.47 by SayBoom from Ukraine

Jun 09, 2015
 
Rated: 3.28 by leitmotif from Romania

Apr 03, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Ciocanelu from Romania

Apr 03, 2015
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Reviewed by Hoppsbabo from England

3.8/5  rDev +11.1%
A: Pours a strong amber colour. Good firm white head which sticks to the sides of the glass.
S: Bit of an ugly malt character with soapy hops.
T: Slightly astringent. Has a delicate malt character. Tastes like a lower ABV cask ale. The malt flavour is plain and it's balanced with the soft hops. Slightly biscuity, a bit creamy, and tea leaves in the finish. A mild one.
O: The only average beer I've had from this great brewery.
Nov 28, 2014
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Rated by Elleyo9 from England

3.25/5  rDev -5%
Not much of a head, great 18th century style bottle light hoppy flavours.
Nov 20, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by zestar from California

Sep 17, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by hansavijaticar from Croatia (Hrvatska)

Jun 06, 2014
Organic Ale from St. Peter's Brewery Co Ltd
Beer rating: 79 out of 100 with 118 ratings