This beer from St. Peter’s is a ruby brown ale under an oddly ivory head. I’ve never seen an ivory head: tan plus hints of green-grey. This is old style, like Burton Bridge porter: barley candy plus molasses with lime and green hops. The yeast is sour cream or soured milk or something in between. Yet all well balanced.
Is this the holy grail? A 1750s porter? Likely not sour enough but colonial US farmers drank diluted vinegar so go figure.
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Alan – September 18, 2005 8:49 PM
…and you know you are drinking one when you do. Loverly house style.
Todd – September 19, 2005 11:09 AM
http://www.relyeaproject.org
I had one of their Pale Ales about a month ago, purchased from Beers of the World in Rochester, New York. VERY skunky/light struck. Much like some other brewers, they need to replace the green bottles with brown bottles.
Alan – September 19, 2005 11:24 AM
Here is a trick. If it was truly skunky, leave other unopened bottles in the dark for a few days. That “light struck” phenomena is reversable. I would suggest, however, that it might not have been skunked as their house yeast has a real sour tang to it – unless, of course, you are used to their product and faced a supertang of inhuman proporations, a twing no one ought to be subject to.
I know their “English Ale” as sold in Canada comes in a green bottle and that is what I am familair with.
Alan – September 19, 2005 7:31 PM
What if I put it, say, three and a half feet from you, just beyond your reach?
Baba – September 19, 2005 8:57 PM
http://www.beerrag.com
Those bottle are funky, I have yet to actually drink one of their beers, for some reason the bottle throws me off. When I am at a beer store and i see that, I always feel like I am about to buy like a bottle of…well something other then beer.
Anyways, I gotta try it now, I salute them on their bottles