Pencil & Spoon - St Peter’s Whisky Beers
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Ilove it when a beer makes you stop and completely rethink what you’d alreadyassumed. I love it. That moment of ‘wait a minute...’ or that ‘holy shit’reaction that just gets you excited. That’s what happened with these St Peter’sbeers – The Saints and Suffolk Smokey.
Theyarrived in the post way before Christmas. It was probably October. It got bundledup in starting a new job and trying to move house and it got added to the listof beers to be drunk when I got the chance (even if they did look great andincluded peated malt and whisky. I love the peaty flavour in whisky – I can’tget enough of it, I want it to be pungent and intense and to sear through mysinuses).
Theyare both a modest 4.8% and both are deep gold in colour, so not your usualblack beer with whisky. The Saints includes ‘a measure of whisky’ from theEnglish Whisky Co while the Suffolk Smokey is made with peated distilling malt.
TheSaints has that background and edge of whisky and smoke. There’s a big applenote, and stone fruit, some tutti fruity cheekiness, then a wisp of smokethrough it all adding a brilliant depth and interest to it. As it warms thewhisky gets more intense, more in your face, and I love that – it gets rougher,peatier, less fruity. It surprised me in the best of ways.
SuffolkSmokey is all about the smoke and peat – bonfires and earth. It’s more smoke inthe nose than in the flavour, but it adds that back-of-the-mouth roughness ofpeat, an earthiness that mixes with the bitterness. It’s fantastic – the onlyproblem was the lack of carbonation in the bottle (it didn’t pffft when the capcame off and felt flat, which dulled the flavours for me).
Icouldn’t get enough of these. I love how the whisky in put was pungent yet still refined, I love what the peated malt added to it, love howthe glug of whisky in The Saints gave a fruit depth you’d never get in beeralone and love how the beers were pale which allowed the whisky to play thestarring role without the charry, dark notes of roasted malt. Whisky and beer done well.
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