SimonF Profile - Brewver

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 (3374) reviewed West Coast IPA from Reckless Brewing Co. 10 months ago

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

(Can) Pours hazy golden with small white head. Subtle aroma with notes of citrus, dankness and biscuit. Medium body with good carbonation. Taste is dominated by the hops. Plenty of dank herbal flavours from start to finish. The start has some short-lived tropical notes. There’s a good bitter finish. Very good.

Tried from Can on 04 Jun 2025 at 12:06

SimonF added a new beer West Coast IPA by Reckless Brewing Co.
10 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Bluetongue Brewery located in Australia
10 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Reschs located in Australia
10 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Hawkes Bay Brewing Co. located in New Zealand
10 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Bucket Brewery - Kempsey located in Australia
10 months ago

SimonF updated a beer: Coffee Lager brewed by Bucket Brewery - Kempsey
10 months ago

SimonF (3374) reviewed Hazy Pale from Reckless Brewing Co. 10 months ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

(Can) Pours hazy pale gold with loose white head. Good aroma with citrus and pine. Light bodied and well carbonated. Taste is a little thin for me. There’s citrus up front and some pleasant peppery spice notes throughout. Easy drinking but light on flavour. Almost seems like a low alcohol beer.

Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2025 at 13:42

SimonF added a new beer Hazy Pale by Reckless Brewing Co.
10 months ago

SimonF updated a brewery: Seppeltsfield located in Australia
10 months ago