Suffolk Brewery has Medieval Home
Few micro-breweries can boast a moated medieval manor house as their headquarters, but St. Peter’s is no ordinary brewery. Its home is the isolated St. Peter’s Hall near Bungay in Suffolk, whose Great Hall with its huge fireplace and carved oak seating, also serves as a restaurant.
More intimate is the flagstone-floored bar, where drinkers can sample the company’s organic and distinctively spiced beers, such as Spiced Ale and Lemon and Ginger, while enjoying a lunch-time roast beef sandwich or bangers’n’mash.
Guided tours of the brewery, opened in 1996 and set in former agricultural buildings, are available. Visitors discover that the most important ingredient is pure water from a deep well on the site. Beers are exported widely in distinctive bottles based on a 1770 design from Philadelphia.
The Hall dates from 1280 but was extended in 1539 using architectural ‘salvage’ from a local priory, giving a church-like appearance. Visitors of all ages enjoy spotting the choir stalls, stone carvings, ecclesiastical windows, even a tombstone set into the entrance hall.
Contact
St. Peter’s Hall & Brewery
St. Peter
South Elmham
Bungay
Suffolk
Tel: 01986 782322
Web: www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk
