A nice beer to change things up!
At work I have been ordering in some new beers from a new distributor and have been having a great time trying some out on my very thirsty palate. It's always good to get away from the wine for a bit and get back to some good, tasty beer. I have a whole range of beers now from St Peter's Brewery in Suffolk, England and decided to go with this Old-Style Porter first. It's a good solid porter with some good smoky characters but a great refreshingly light finish. It reminds me of drinking Guinness in in Ireland. Guinness never tastes better than it does in Dublin where it is born from the river Liffey. It is crisp and very thirst quenching, like this St Peter's Porter. I enjoyed it very much and felt that the $3.99 I paid for the cool pint-size flask shaped bottle was a great deal.
I give it an A.
posted by David Ogilvie @ 11:17 PM
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3 Comments:
I've found the problem with a lot of specialty imports is that the stores don't go through them that fast, so they end up having very old beers. How do you get around that? Also, when are you going to do some Sauvignon blancs?
Hey Scott,
Well, I just ordered this beer in a week ago, so if it is old, its because it was sitting in the distributors warehouse. Also, check the bottle for a bottling date. If it is not actually put on the label itself, usually you can find a faint ink mark on the glass somewhere that gives the bottling date. But also keep in mind, darker beers with higher alcohol will actually taste better with some age on them. What you have to worry about, just like wine, is how it was stored. I have a friend who who buys expensive, dark Belgian beers and ages them in a wine fridge. When you take beer that seriously its a whole new world.
About the Sauv Blancs, their coming.
Actually some beers do not improve with age, bottled conditon beers (they are still fermenting in the bottle) such as, good Belgium beer will age well, Budwieser will not, it will say bottle fermented or something similar on the bottle.
You are right, storage is a concern, even bottle conditioned beers need to be kept cold.
Guiness in Dublin, for that matter Ireland, can't be beat.
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