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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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - golden with a very light haze. Fluffy off-white head. Nose - soft peat smoke over caramel. Taste - more pronounced peat, element of Islay whisky even. Sweet caramel notes too. Palate - creamy texture, close to medium bodied, the smoke doing a lovely drying out job on the finish. Overall - good.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2020 at 16:55

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle from Sophie's Beer Store: BB 12th Dec 2020. Drank at home on 17th Jul 2020. Beige head on a black body, head stayed around. Singed malty nose and taste, earthy with that Rye feel you get when that cereal is used.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2020 at 13:05

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 7.5
bottle at home... July 2020... dark black... thin tan lacing... soft dusty chocolate roast malts nose... Light dry chocolate Roast... dusty... body is just a little off...
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2020 at 18:21

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6
Dark beer, thick head. Sweet, malty aroma. Taste has dark chocolate, bitter malt, molasses and a little brown sugar flavour evening it out. Rich and.oretty tasty.
Tried on 26 Jun 2020 at 21:43

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Dark beer, properly smokey smell. Almost bacony. Flavour has that too, a very light saltiness, good earthy malt base a touch of the rye too. I'd like a LITTLE more body ideally but it's rather tasty.
Tried on 26 Jun 2020 at 21:04

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours hazy golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of light spice and grassy hops. Taste is light sweet, more grassy hops. Light sweet finish.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2020 at 15:19

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
330ml bottle: BB 12th Dec 2020. Obtained from Sophie's Beer Store. Drank at home on 4th Jun 2020 during the virus Lock In. Golden/amber body, off-white topping of foam. Malty molasses in the nose, taste also malty and semi-sweet, mild citrus hoppiness late on.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2020 at 06:08

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from Appellation Wines, Comely Bank, delivered. Pours clear pale yellow with a faint brown tinge, thin white head. Aromas of light lemon, bread dough. Taste is biscuit, light lemon again. Biscuit thing makes it more like a pale ale, missing a crispness for the style for me.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Jun 2020 at 21:37

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - hazy, golden amber. Decent head. Nose - bread and brown sugar. Light spice. Taste - burnt brown bread ight spice and sugar. Palate - close to medium bodied. Tangy bitter middle and finish. Overall - ok.
Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2020 at 20:40

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - yellow and pale. Thin but attractive head. Nose - grainy and a bit like malt bag. A wee bit of lemon. Taste - porridge oats and citrus again. Palate - light bodied, some crispness on the finish. Overall - the first beer from this brewery that disappointed me.
Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2020 at 20:03