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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.
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.6
Can from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours clear golden orange with a white cap. Aroma: biscuit malts, honey, grass. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, clean, bread, biscuit malts, grassy. Medium body with soft carbonation. Rustic taste, but decent.
Tried
from Can
from Cork & Cask
on 02 May 2023
at 21:15
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can online from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours unclear dark brown with a decent beige cap. Caramel & cinnamon aroma. Light to moderate sweet & bitter, bread, caramel, moderately prominent cinnamon, all in balance though. Medium body with foamy carbonation.
Tried
from Can
from
Cork & Cask
on 26 Apr 2023
at 20:16
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can, online from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours clear mid brown with a light tan cap. Malt & light caramel notes on the aroma & taste. Light body with foamy carbonation. Easy drinker.
Tried
from Can
from Cork & Cask
on 23 Apr 2023
at 12:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Beers Without Borders. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of biscuit, honey, green grass and corn. Taste is bready, grass again. Clean finish.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Apr 2023
at 18:25
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2023
at 17:42
4.7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.6
Can, online from Cloudwater. Pours hazed amber orange with a slim cream cap. Aroma: sweet malts, toast, grass, light pine. Taste: moderate sweet with lighter bitterness, citrus rind, marmalade, candied fruits, light boozy, some pine on the finish. Medium body with light carbonation. I liked it.
Tried
from Can
from Cloudwater Brew Co
on 17 Apr 2023
at 19:57
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hand-pulled half-pint on 15th April 2023: Enigma Tap, North Shields. Misty golden body, white crown. Citrus fruits all the way in both the aroma and taste, decent enough, but I am getting really bored with them now.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Apr 2023
at 04:49
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
18th February 2023
Can. Hazy orange amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate with slightly late developing reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, light and a little thin but nice touches of mildly sweet cream and caramel. Light pine from the rarely featured Celeia and the Rarely seen Keyworth Early hops. A pretty cool andli pretty intense sweet candy fruit burst coming from somewhere along with a nice tangerine marmalade. A wonderful touch of a little ripe lemon sherbet on the back end. Light crisp finish with more candy fruits. What a delightful brew, light on its toes and getting loads from the rare hops and perhaps yeast - dunno. Do know I like it, a lot!
Earlier Rating: 2/19/2023 Total Score: 4.1
18th February 2023
Can. Hazy orange amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate with slightly late developing reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, light and a little thin but nice touches of mildly sweet cream and caramel. Light pine from the rarely featured Celeia and the Rarely seen Keyworth Early hops. A pretty cool andli pretty intense sweet candy fruit burst coming from somewhere along with a nice tangerine marmalade. A wonderful touch of a little ripe lemon sherbet on the back end. Light crisp finish with more candy fruits. What a delightful brew, light on its toes and getting loads from the rare hops and perhaps yeast - dunno! Do know I like it, a lot! 4
Can. Hazy orange amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate with slightly late developing reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, light and a little thin but nice touches of mildly sweet cream and caramel. Light pine from the rarely featured Celeia and the Rarely seen Keyworth Early hops. A pretty cool andli pretty intense sweet candy fruit burst coming from somewhere along with a nice tangerine marmalade. A wonderful touch of a little ripe lemon sherbet on the back end. Light crisp finish with more candy fruits. What a delightful brew, light on its toes and getting loads from the rare hops and perhaps yeast - dunno. Do know I like it, a lot!
Earlier Rating: 2/19/2023 Total Score: 4.1
18th February 2023
Can. Hazy orange amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate with slightly late developing reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, light and a little thin but nice touches of mildly sweet cream and caramel. Light pine from the rarely featured Celeia and the Rarely seen Keyworth Early hops. A pretty cool andli pretty intense sweet candy fruit burst coming from somewhere along with a nice tangerine marmalade. A wonderful touch of a little ripe lemon sherbet on the back end. Light crisp finish with more candy fruits. What a delightful brew, light on its toes and getting loads from the rare hops and perhaps yeast - dunno! Do know I like it, a lot! 4
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2023
at 15:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from somewhere like Westhill or HoTM. It pours lightly hazy orange with a dissipating bubbly white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, floral, orange blossom, touch of orange marmalade white bread sandwiches, hay, peppery spice and juniper. The taste is fairly firm, dryish, bitter - sweet, sweet doughy white bread, biscuit, sponge cake, touch of estery fruits, floral, orange blossom, grass, straw, peppery spice and a light touch of alcohol with a drying, woody finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Quite interesting and quaffable. Decent gear.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Mar 2023
at 16:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy brown beer, thick off white head. Smells like... Well, a bit like a cinnamon bun. Flavour has a good whack of sweet cinnamon up front, a little malty and bready. A hint of citrus zest. A bit watery in the finish but not bad.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2023
at 20:58