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The Bakehouse, 6 Hazel Avenue Lane, Glasgow, G44 3LJ, Scotland
Description
A small independent brewery based in Glasgow's Southside, established 2019. We value quality, tradition, innovation, and doing things a bit differently.
Simple Things is about brewing beer with a sense of place, exploring beer styles that aren't always easy to find and using ingredients that extend the flavour spectrum beyond current trends. The beers are often modern takes on traditional styles, or contemporary styles with a twist.
We love to drink big, juicy hazy IPAs with Ctira, Mosaic, Simcoe etc but that’s not what we do. There are plenty of people already making a really good job of that.
Exploring beer styles and ingredients that are not so well represented is what gets us excited. Our Big Ideas Series is where it all began; a range of styles that includes crowd-pleasing favourites such as Golden Ale, Table Beer and Session Stout alongside the more esoteric likes of Wheat Wine, Scottish Light, Peated Pale and Bretted 80/-. We recently introduced our Core Range, comprising a US-style Pale Ale brewed with only European hops and a Czech-style Pilsner. Our new Seasonals range is where you’ll find beers that are right for the time of year.
We use local and foraged ingredients when we can. All our beers are vegan friendly, unfiltered, unpasteurised and naturally carbonated through re-fermentation. We hope you enjoy them.
Simple Things is about brewing beer with a sense of place, exploring beer styles that aren't always easy to find and using ingredients that extend the flavour spectrum beyond current trends. The beers are often modern takes on traditional styles, or contemporary styles with a twist.
We love to drink big, juicy hazy IPAs with Ctira, Mosaic, Simcoe etc but that’s not what we do. There are plenty of people already making a really good job of that.
Exploring beer styles and ingredients that are not so well represented is what gets us excited. Our Big Ideas Series is where it all began; a range of styles that includes crowd-pleasing favourites such as Golden Ale, Table Beer and Session Stout alongside the more esoteric likes of Wheat Wine, Scottish Light, Peated Pale and Bretted 80/-. We recently introduced our Core Range, comprising a US-style Pale Ale brewed with only European hops and a Czech-style Pilsner. Our new Seasonals range is where you’ll find beers that are right for the time of year.
We use local and foraged ingredients when we can. All our beers are vegan friendly, unfiltered, unpasteurised and naturally carbonated through re-fermentation. We hope you enjoy them.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Appellation Wines. Pours hazy yellow with a thin white head. Aromas of honey and lemon. Taste is slightly medicinal, honey, lemon and spice. Boozy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Oct 2023
at 11:33
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can online from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours hazed blonde with a white cap. Aroma: sweet, wheat, light esters, some citrus, light marmalade. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, wheat, light floral, herbal, some wit spices. Towards dry on the palate. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Can
from Cork & Cask
on 18 Oct 2023
at 20:12
4.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Keg at IMBC 2023. Pours gold with a white cap. Aroma: wheat, tropical, pineapple, grapefruit, saison yeast. Taste: follows the aroma, towards dry with some pepper spice. Medium body with foamy carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
at
Independent Manchester Beer Convention
on 17 Oct 2023
at 22:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - hazy golden amber. White head, quite neat. Nose - candied lemon, honey and generally bready. Taste - honey and bread, some zest and sweet spice. Palate - medium bodied, tangy sweet middle and finish, though it has some sort of tangy drop off and linger on the finish. Overall - this grew on me.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Oct 2023
at 18:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Clear, dark amber beer, thin fizzy white head. Some classic British hop aroma in there and a bit of sweet malt. Basically does what it says on the tin, it's a take on an 80/. Doesn't deviate that much from the formula. Smooth and fruity, sweet malt, some of the hops again. Toffee and sugar in there too. It's pretty decent.
Earlier Rating: 9/19/2021 Total Score: 3.5
Clear, dark ruby beer, big bubbly head. Light aroma of sweet maltiness and toffee. Flavour is dried fruit, malt, toffee, a little spice. Not exciting but pretty decent.
Earlier Rating: 9/19/2021 Total Score: 3.5
Clear, dark ruby beer, big bubbly head. Light aroma of sweet maltiness and toffee. Flavour is dried fruit, malt, toffee, a little spice. Not exciting but pretty decent.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2023
at 20:50
7/10
Tried
on 07 Oct 2023
at 19:36
7/10
Tried
on 07 Oct 2023
at 13:49
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Oct 2023
at 15:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - murky yellow, snow white head. Nose - pear, going into green pineapple. Taste - apple, gooseberry and mango skin. Palate - light bodied, creamy and then bone dry. Overall - decent.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2023
at 19:11
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.6
Can online from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours opaque orange brown and a white cap. Aroma: sweet grains, toffee. Taste: moderate sweet & light to moderate bitter, dry-ish, brown bread, toffee, some orange. Medium body with soft carbonation. Good one.
Tried
from Can
from Cork & Cask
on 28 Sep 2023
at 20:57