St Peter’s Brewery, near Bungay

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Robert Gale in Breweries

St Peter’s Brewery was built in the first half of 1996 next to the historic 13th century St Peter’s Hall at South Elmham, Nr. Bungay. It produces a wide range of beers and has a capacity of around 300 barrels/wk (80,000 pints) but it usually produces less.

The bottling hall has been specially adapted to hand St Peter’s unique oval shaped bottle and the brewery produces around 35,000 bottles a week.

The oval shaped bottles are believed to be a copy of one from Gibbstown, near Phildelphia which dates from c.1770. It was produced for Thomas Gerrard, an innkeeper with a tidewater inn on the Delaware River.

Unfortunately the brewery wasn’t offering tours so I had to make do with emptying my pockets in the brewery shop. They offer the full selection of beers although they’re not that cheap. However, if you don’t care how your bottles look, they sell boxes of 8 mislabelled bottles for £11.

Venue Location

St Peter’s Brewery

St Peter’s Hall

St. Peter South Elmham

Bungay

NR35 1NQ

Tel: 01986 782 322‎

www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk

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Robert Gale likes beer, pubs and beer festivals. He also likes to take photos of beer, pubs and beer festivals. Most weekends of the year you can find him travelling around the UK (and sometimes beyond) photographing and reviewing good quality pubs and beer festivals. He also has a day job in the form of a web developer for Ozum.