Simian Ales

Microbrewery in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 🇩🇪

Established in 2018

Contact
Mühlenweg 57, Krefeld, 47839, Germany
Description
Brewery in Elmshorn closed in december 2024. Owner moved from Elmshorn to Krefeld, bought the former brewery of "Third Sector Brewing" and started brewing his beers there in early 2026.

Former address:
Langelohe 65A, 25337 Elmshorn.

The story starts on a kitchen stove in a flat on Balduinstr, metres from the Elbe river in St Pauli. Fast forward six years and after a gentle enthusiastic push from the owners of Alles elbe, a brew pub across the Reeperbahn, Simian Ales now has a microbrewery and taproom in Elmshorn, outside Hamburg.

With a core range of beers such as a North German Pilsner, modern American style IPA, Red Ale and table beer, and collaborations with breweries including Fanø Bryghus (Denmark), Ratsherrn & Bunthaus (Hamburg), Simian is being found in more and more cities across Germany and continental Europe.

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle from Brolters, Bremen. Hazy dark golden with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish. 151218
Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2018 at 16:30

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Flight at Crafts. Pours clear yellow. Aroma is some grains but also grass good butter. Body is medium, decently sweet and bitter, lively carbonation. Clean. Dryish and good.
Tried on 18 Nov 2018 at 21:08

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Sampled draft @ The Crafts in Kloten, Switzerland. Clear golden, huge soapy white head. Nose is vegetable, grain fizzy. Taste is chalk, tea, chemical, dirty, fizzy, poor.
Tried from Draft on 18 Nov 2018 at 03:49

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy, dark golden colour with average to huge, frothy, to macropore, osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Earthy, grassy, herbal-spicy and slightly piney, hoppy aroma, notes of woodruff, hints of peppermint, a touch of sage. Taste is dry, grassy, herbal-spicy hoppy, weak pale malty basis with minimal residual sweetness, hints of woodruff, a touch of peppermint, sage and pine; minimally watery, slightly overcarbonated. Nice!
Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2018 at 16:34

7/10
Tried from Draft at Monterey Bar on 21 Oct 2018 at 19:03

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a mid-sized white head. Aroma of moderate spicy bitter hops, pale malt, straw. Taste of straw, spicy hops, some herbs, long bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2018 at 20:02

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled 330ml (Boxbeers, BB 03/2019)
Orange-amber colour, small white head. Fruity aroma has diacetyl. Medium-bodied. Piney bitterness, tropical fruits, lurking diacetyl, nice long bitter aftertaste. Decent old school IPA but is a bit unclean. Fortunately not too much diacetyl in the flavour, so drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2018 at 18:09

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33cl bottle. A slightly hazy dark golden beer with a huge good lasting off-white head. Aroma of resinous bitter hops, apricot, reddish malt. Taste of intense bitter resinous hops, pine, citrus, apricot, long bitter finish. Okay!
Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2018 at 20:19

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Bottle, 7%. Mild fruity hop aroma. Cloudy golden colour. Big stable frothy and creamy white head. The flavour has a good caramelly and slightly piney hop note. Also a little caramelly maltiness. Flavourful and well-balanced.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Jul 2018 at 18:51

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Bottle, 5.8%. Good juicy hop aroma. Cloudy orange colour. Does not look like NEIPA, but smells like it. Good stable white head. The flavour has a good fruity hoppiness. Teaish hop note. Nicely chalky with a faint hop bite. Creamy mouthfeel. Also tastes much like a NEIPA.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Jul 2018 at 16:41