{"id":235,"date":"2005-05-08T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T12:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:07:01","slug":"st-peters-winter-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/05\/08\/st-peters-winter-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"St Peter’s ‘Winter Ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diary entry #27, St Peter's 'Winter Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> St Peter’s Winter Ale. 500ml, $5, 6.5%, 8\/5\/05. First off: most gorgeous bottle ever. Green oval, pure vintage. Looks like good medicine and smells a bit the same. Dark as dark, with a few brownish bubbles. Tastes mad. A little scary, even. Fruitcake flavours all over the place, a little spicy. Definately a flask of winter goodness. Goes seriously well with a big old stew, and that’s just what G.’s jigged up. Nice.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> I was massively<\/em> impressed by this one, and recall it very well. I haven’t been able to find it since, sadly. The bottle is also sufficiently gorgeous that, when for a while they weren’t able to use the proper old-school ones (during a shortage or whatever), the beers actually came with a tag that apologised for their absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: St Peter’s Winter Ale. 500ml, $5, 6.5%, 8\/5\/05. First off: most gorgeous bottle ever. Green oval, pure vintage. Looks like good medicine and smells a bit the same. Dark as dark, with a few brownish bubbles. Tastes mad. A little scary, even. Fruitcake flavours all over the place, a little spicy. Definately a flask … Continue reading St Peter’s ‘Winter Ale’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,6,17],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-england"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3934,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/09\/alaskan-winter-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":0},"title":"Alaskan Winter Ale","author":"Phil","date":"May 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The best-laid plans and all that, right? 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