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SimonF

Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 Supporter Trusted Member

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Grew up in England and developed a taste for English ales. Traveled a lot to Belgium and surrounding countries and grew to appreciate these European styles. Traveled to USA a fair bit, starting in the dark days when it was a beer desert, and then enjoying the flourishing microbrewery scene. Moved in 1994 to Australia which was then a beer desert, so grew to appreciate the excellent Aussie wines and my own homebrew. Now there is a flourishing microbrewery scene in Aus, which is great. I travel a lot to Asia, which was generally grim for beer, although with some interesting pockets of excellence there if you looked hard; but now several countries have good craft beers. I was a RateBeerian for 18 years (Oct 2007 until its demise in 2025), with username Pyobon.

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SimonF updated a beer: Apple Brandy Barrel Aged - Barleywine (2023) brewed by Hawkers Beer
1 month ago

SimonF updated a beer: Interstrait Transfusion DDH NEIPA brewed by Hawkers Beer
1 month ago

SimonF updated a beer: Bourbon Barrel-Aged White Stout (2023) - Caramilk Edition brewed by Hawkers Beer
1 month ago

SimonF updated a beer: The Forgotten Casks brewed by Hawkers Beer
1 month ago

8.1

SimonF (3322) reviewed Imperial Stout 2025 from Hawkers Beer 1 month ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(Can) Pours black with big tan head. Lovely aroma. Raisins, port, treacle. Full bodied, smooth and creamy with fine soft carbonation. Great taste. Sweet toffee at the start steadily develops are black treacle, burnt sugar bitterness. There’s rich dried fruit and berries at the start and booze is apparent mainly as a slight burn in the finish. Very good, although pretty intense.

Tried from Can on 22 Dec 2025 at 11:23

SimonF added a new beer Imperial Stout 2025 by Hawkers Beer
1 month ago

SimonF updated a beer: Threefold brewed by Slow Lane Brewing
2 months ago

7.6

SimonF (3322) reviewed Threefold from Slow Lane Brewing 2 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

(Can) Lovely looking beer - clear golden with big dense white head. Pleasant aroma of dried fruit and peppery spice. Good mouthfeel, medium bodied with a slight stickiness, and great carbonation that is both bright and mouth filling. Great taste. There’s a toffee sweetness through most of the palate that slowly gives way to a peppery bitterness, with both in balance in a long finish. There’s orange and dried fruit at the start. Cinnamon notes. Some alcohol heat in the finish. Very good.

Tried from Can on 21 Dec 2025 at 12:35

SimonF updated a beer: Papaya Don't Preach brewed by Slow Lane Brewing
2 months ago

SimonF updated a beer: Reverence brewed by Slow Lane Brewing
2 months ago