Simplex
(has 1 batch)
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.88
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Despite Simplex being an ale, it has all the characteristics of an old-styled pils. It is a blond, unfiltered, unpasteurized, hoppy and bitter beer that remains low in alcohol. Resulting in a straw blonde, highly drinkable beer with plenty of flavor and character.
Taste: Refreshing, light and with a firm bitterness
Taste: Refreshing, light and with a firm bitterness
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A light yellow beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has grain and fruitness of lemon, fresh. Taste has citrus, gran, medium bitterness, dry. Almost medium bodied. Aromatic and grainy. Great beer.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2018
at 05:06
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Thanks ttle (at koht). Pours golden. Aroma is fruity, grainy, grassy. Flavor is sweet and bitter, grass, fart, malt, dryness, grains. Finish is dry and grassy. Overall: drinkable, not a fan of grassy hops.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2017
at 13:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Light golden color, white foam. Aroma: bright floral hop, a little grassy and fruity with citrus. Taste: light, herbaceous-spicy hop, noticeably fruity, pleasantly bitter, a good and drinkable ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2017
at 06:35
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Cork & Cask. Hazy golden body with sediment flecks beneath a medium white head. Low carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of sea salt, grass, biscuit and coriander. Flavour of papery malt, lemon, steel and a slightly unpleasant, sour finish. Thin body with a watery, frothy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Sharp and not the easiest to drink. I’m surprised this has such high ratings - to me it feels raw and unfinished.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2017
at 18:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap at six degrees north. Nose is orange, fizzy tablet, wheat. Palate is citrus, hoppy orange, some fizzy tablet. Easy going.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Dec 2017
at 17:10
8/10
On ratebeer described as a kölsch but technical is more belgian bitter blonde. Plesant,rich aroma of yeast esters like stone fruit,pear..
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2017
at 20:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at Moeder Lambic - Brussels. Pours hazy yellow with a frothy, white head. In the nose, nice crisp biscuits abound, along with husky grains and grass. Lightly sweet, with grassy bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Strong grassy bitterness in the finish, with more husky grains, touches of hay. Pretty refreshing. Not bad overall.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2017
at 00:10
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy, pale orangey, golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Sweet-ish, fruity hoppy and malty aroma, notes of apricot, hints of peach, a spicy yeasty touch, husky overtones. Taste is bitter hoppy, slightly spicy yeasty, fruity and minimally husky, slightly diluted hints of apricot and mirabelle. Refreshing, light and minimally watery, but quite flavourful and nicely dirty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2017
at 14:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
F: big, white, good retention C: gold, hazy. A: malty, bit orange, spicy, bit green apple, floral, peach, almost bit funky. T: malty, quite bitter on the palate, bit peppery, bread, light fruity, bit citrus, grassy, very nice balanced, refreshing, medium body and carbonation, especially I like the decent long lasting harmonic bitterness, 0,33l bottle from Carrefour market @ Rue des Champs, Brussels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2017
at 13:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at Express De Lyon, 8th November 17. Pours clear, light orange. Aroma is yeast, citrus. Taste is classic De Ranke, yeast, clean, citrus and bitter. Good light Belgian Ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Nov 2017
at 11:22