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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 has a new beer style achievement

Level 1 for Porter - Baltic ticks with a total of 5 ticks of this sub style.
Baltic Porter from Reckless Brewing Co. was the one that did it!
9 months ago

7.3

SimonF (3322) reviewed Baltic Porter from Reckless Brewing Co. 9 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

(Can) Pours black with small tan head. Aroma of roast malt with notes of coffee and berries. Great mouthfeel. Medium bodied, smooth, slightly sticky with moderate soft carbonation. Good taste too. Quite sweet with a backbone of toffee. There’s coffee notes and a coffee, burnt sugar bitterness. There’s some berry notes at the start. Very enjoyable.

Tried from Can on 30 May 2025 at 14:00

SimonF updated a brewery: Schwartz Brewery (ex Macquarie Hotel Brewery) located in Australia
9 months ago

7.1

SimonF (3322) reviewed Stout from Reckless Brewing Co. 9 months ago

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

(Can) Pours black with a modest tan head. Great aroma of pine, citrus, and dark roast malt. Medium bodied, smooth with mouth filling soft carbonation giving an excellent mouthfeel. Great taste with some complexity. There’s a good stout base with dark roast grain, coffee and some black treacle bitterness. Overlaid on this is some great hops giving some short lived citrus tartness at the start, some nice herbal notes through the middle and some hoppy bitterness in the finish. There’s some dark chocolate in there at the end too. Unusual and very enjoyable.

Tried from Can on 29 May 2025 at 12:54

SimonF updated a brewery: Andong Brewing located in South Korea
9 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Mudgee Brewing Company located in Australia
9 months ago

6.6

SimonF (3322) reviewed Red IPA from Reckless Brewing Co. 9 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

(Can) Pours slightly hazy red tinted mid brown with small tan head. Great aroma of pine over citrus and toffee notes. Medium body with good carbonation. Flavour is a backbone of dark toffee malt with plenty of hops a robust level of bitterness, and herbal notes. There’s some citrus at the start. For me, the bitterness is dialled up a bit too far to work with malt flavours - it seems busy and intense.

Tried from Can on 28 May 2025 at 12:28

SimonF updated a brewery: The Barking Deer located in India
9 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Brick Lane Brewing located in Australia
9 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: 7Bräu / Sevenbräu (세븐브로이) located in South Korea
9 months ago