Spire St. Pepper Stout

Description: Brewery: Spire / 5.5% ABV / This award winning full-bodied stout is laced with black pepper (yes, it really does have ... more

Spire St. Pepper Stout ... freshly ground black pepper!) which is complemented by a generous spicy hop balance. A mixture of Maris Otter pale malt, Amber malt and Pale Chocolate malt are all used along with a traditional addition of Northern Brewer & Fuggle hops which give an assertive hop balance to the brew. What else could it be called other than ‘Sgt. Pepper’… it’s almost as if The Beatles named their song especially for it…. A distinctively different take on stout, this ‘big’ beer is proving to be extremely popular.

Newest Review: ... brewer's musical background he decided that (wherever possible) the beers produced by Spire would have a musical theme. This ... more

... is why we get Encore and Land of Hop and Glory (their specials have included Maestro for example). When they were developing the idea of a new dark beer they thought of adding pepper to stout and came up with the name Sgt. Pepper ~ after the Beatles song of course! ***Vital Stats** Sgt. Pepper weighs in at 5.5% ABV and is brewed using Northern Brewer and Fuggles hops, along with Maris Otter pale, Amber and Pale Chocolate malts. Along with this, as the name suggests, freshly ground black pepper is also added during ...more

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Spire St. Pepper Stout: SNEEZE-y Drinking! (898 words)
by - written on 08/10/06 (Very useful, 109 readings)
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It is really nice to be involved with promoting and supporting a local business as it is just setting up. Earlier on this year we became involved with a couple of ex-schoolteachers who were hoping to set up a brewery near to Chesterfield. Since then we have been in regular contact with them and have been sampling their beers, both at the brewery and (thankfully for them) in a few of our local pubs. One of their seasonally produced beers is a stout and is called Sergeant Pepper. ~~~THE BREWERY. Spire Brewery is based on the Ireland Industrial Estate in Staveley, Derbyshire. It was founded in the spring of 2006 by a former school teacher and Scot's ... Read the complete review

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