Simple Things Fermentations

Microbrewery in Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 2020

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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.

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7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9
Can at home, 27th May 2022. Pours a dark brown. Aroma is meaty, smoke, bacon. Taste is meaty, Smokey, bacon and quite rich. Pretty authentic, nice stuff
Tried from Can on 28 May 2022 at 10:48

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
440ml can from Thornbridge Beer Club - Mahogany body, short lasting head. Smokey nose, fire, malty. Fresher taste than expected, fruity. Nice.
Tried from Can on 27 May 2022 at 19:23

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - black and opaque with a lovely, creamy tan head. Nose - sweet bread and chocolate muffins. Taste - creamy and cakey with dark chocolate burnt cookies. Palate - medium bodied, sweet but roasty finish. Overall - lovely.
Earlier Rating: 5/23/2020 Total Score: 3.9
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - dark brown to black. And opaque. Lovely fawn head. Nose - dark chocolate with apple and blackberry lurking. Taste - creamy, dark chocolate and blackberry. Palate - creamy and medium bodied. Lovely elegant finish. Overall - lovely beer.
Tried from Can on 25 May 2022 at 16:39

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can from cgarvieuk. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of liquorice, dark chocolate, coffee. Taste is roast, chocolate, pontefract cakes. Good.
Earlier Rating: 9/22/2020 Total Score: 3.8
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours darkest brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of molasses, dark chocolate and blackberry. Taste is blackberry and apple crumble. Light fruity bramble at the end.
Tried from Can on 25 May 2022 at 16:38

8/10
can at James... dark black.. big thick tan head... soft sweet caramel chocolate roast malts nose... soft malts.. heavy sweet woody chocolate roast malts.. soft chocolate roast malts.. dark malts.... dark woody chocolate roast
Earlier Rating: 11/10/2020 Total Score: 3.8
bottle at home... dark black.. thick tan head... heavy meaty chocolate roast malts nose... dark roast... light herbal edge... dark chocolate roast malts
Tried from Can on 25 May 2022 at 16:37

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2022 at 21:55

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Back rating from 2 weeks ago. Appearance - opaque brown to black. Creamy tan head. Nose - bonfire and chewy molasses. An edge of dried fruits. Taste - bonfire, blackberry and more molasses. Palate - smoky finish and medium bodied, with some sweetness in the middle. Overall - lovely stuff.
Tried on 24 May 2022 at 19:14

7/10
--- Beer aliased from original tick of Big Ideas Series 10.2 - Pale Ale on 25 Jul 2021 at 20:48 - Score: 6. Original review text:
Tried on 21 May 2022 at 13:06

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can from interweb somewhere. It pours every so slightly ahzy blonde with a decent white head. The aroma is quite sweet upfront, estery, apple and melon, twist of citrus, green banana, banana bread, bougat and some marmalade. The taste is initially dry, decent hit of bitterness, but more of a bitter - sweet vibe throughout, green banana, herbal, floral, warming spice, peppery, clove rock and some marmalde with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Slightly sticky as it warms. Decent stuff.
Tried from Can on 15 May 2022 at 13:37

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Keg at Brewdog Reading. Dark brown to black with a light brown head. Definitely tastes of treacle (well, maybe molasses but I don't know what that tastes like!). It's a bit bitter from roasty malts. There's chocolate there too. It's decent, but for some reason feels like it should have been better, not sure why.
Tried on 14 May 2022 at 21:48