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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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Many thanks to Beerhunter111. Smooth mild fruity beginning. Easy to drink, very soft and mild. Fruity, mild and refreshing soft.
Tried on 12 Jun 2020 at 21:00

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Slightly unclear pale golden colour, when poured completely it becomes cloudy, tall frothy and stable white head, fair lacing. Aroma pilsner malt, dough, white bread, lemon, peach, spicy touch. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, grainy, fruity, spicy notes. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation, dry sweetbitter aftertaste, orange peel, cardboard, earthy notes, not your typical pilsner, quite nice actually.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2020 at 08:00

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy, amber colour, some chunks floating around, average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Rather weak, sweet-ish, grainy and minimally starchy, malty aroma, a touch of honey. Taste is sweet-ish malty, minimally starchy, a diluted touch of honey and caramel, wallpaper paste. Can't find much inspiring here...
Tried from Bottle on 27 May 2020 at 19:46

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle. Hazy, yellow-ish golden colour with huge, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, snow-white head. Fruity hoppy and biscuity, pale malty aroma, hints of peach, pear, apricot, minimally floral and grassy hoppy as well as yeasty spicy overtones. Taste is minimally husky, strawy and biscuity pale malty, moderately bitter and slightly fruity hoppy, hints of unripe peach, apricot, mirabelle, some grass, a minimally mineral touch, subtle residual sweetness. Watery texture, somehow foamy palate, slightly overcarbonated. Refreshing, slight Saison character - nice.
Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2020 at 14:56

7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Hell hefiger Beginn, dunkel kräutrig, angenehme Herbe. Hohe Süffigkeit, mild karamellig ohne wirklich süß zu sein, spritzig. Hopfig karamelliger Mittelteil, deutlich ansteigende Herbe, etwas trocken im Abgang. 10/11/12/11/11/12
Tried from Bottle from Beyond Beer on 04 May 2020 at 19:43

8.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 9 Overall 8
Heller, weich herb-hopfiger Beginn. Herb getreidiger Mittelteil, weich, hohe Süffigkeit. Nussig, leicht erhöhte Karbonisierung, trocken hopfig getreidiger Abgang. Lecker. 10/12/12/12/10/12
Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2020 at 18:51

6/10
33cl bottle. A clear dark golden beer with a off white head. Aroma of mild sweet grainy malt, fruity malt. Taste of sweet grainy malt, some honey, hints of aromatic hops.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2020 at 19:00

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
33cl bottle. A slightly hazy yellow golden beer with a off-white head. Aroma of mild grassy hops, yeast, pale malt. Taste of mild sweet fruity and grassy hops, yeast, some grains, solid!
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2020 at 19:00

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7

Bottle 330ml. @ home.

[ As Simian Ales Local Legend ].
ABV: 6.0%. Murky medium to light yellow colour with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, pale malt, minerals - celery, citrus - lemony, light pineapple - tropical fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, wheat, citrus, floral, minerals. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to lively. [20200321]
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Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2020 at 09:53

6/10
Tried on 21 Mar 2020 at 22:42