Monogamy - Simcoe

Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Pale Ale - American Style / APA Series Out of Production

Score

6.79

ABV: 6.4%

IBU: -

Ticks: 6

Monogamy is our ongoing, single hop series of pale ales -- a delicious and interesting (controlled) experiment designed to give us all a better understanding of what a hop can do when it flies solo. We keep our base recipe and brewing processes the same, but switch up the hop variable each time. A particularly troublesome beer for those who feel they....Must. Collect. Them. All.

Throughout the years we've brewed and rebrewed this recipe with over 20 different hops, and in 2017 we expanded the series to include double dry-hopped versions (for that nth degree of hope aromatics).

SIMCOE: Known for producing dank and citrusy flavours, Simcoe brings an orange-like quality to this hoppy brew.

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7.2

Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Monogamy - Simcoe from Bellwoods Brewery 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at the brewpub. Pine resin forward hop aromas. Medium bitterness. A nice hop to showcase, leans more towards the pine hop spectrum. Quite nice.

Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:02

7.8

neongolden (4416) reviewed Monogamy - Simcoe from Bellwoods Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(500ml bottle from the brewery) Pours a rather hazy medium gold with a decent white head that fades without lace. Aroma is super fresh, extremely leafy and somewhat dank, wet evergreen forest, fresh grass, weed, unripe mango, citrus peels, vague sweet tropical fruit, ferns. Flavour is rather less striking in its hop character, soft notes of fresh leaves, grapefruit and lemon peels, unripe mango/pineapple, leafy, a bit coniferous and grassy, a soft sweet core balanced by relatively light bitterness. Medium bodied, slightly prickling carbonation. Good stuff, but the Simcoe shows off much better in the nose than on the tongue here.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2018 at 12:35

6.2

thorongil (8206) reviewed Monogamy - Simcoe from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(tap at Volo during Sunsplash) hazy yellow colour with a small white head; aroma of grapefruit; dry flavour with long medium bitter finish

Tried from Draft on 25 Aug 2013 at 18:33

mcberko (47456) reviewed Monogamy - Simcoe from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a cloudy, opaque pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings tons of soft pine and floral notes, like a fresh meadow, with some crackery malt in the back. Flavour brings out loads of floral notes, again like a fresh meadow, some mild citrus, and biscuity malt. Very fresh, floral and dry on the palate. Highly drinkable pale. Great stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2013 at 20:21

7.2

solidfunk (21946) reviewed Monogamy - Simcoe from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Same great piney yeast taste as the other monogamies. The hops variety isn’t the most interesting, but makes for a good session ale. Pours cloudy blond with good lacing and head. Some citrus and pine. Carbonation is somewhere between soft and fizzy. Tap at Bar hop.

Tried from Draft on 24 May 2013 at 21:13

5.6

Ferris (26026) reviewed Monogamy - Simcoe from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle - Orange and lemon with a bit of resin. Pale yellow with a thin white head. Lemon and hay with a ton of bitterness and very dry. Not the nicest single hop. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried from Bottle on 19 May 2013 at 09:16