Simple Things Fermentations

Festival season continues with a mini-run of three consecutive weekends later this month, starting with North Hop in Inverness on the 17th/18th, then it’s over to Edinburgh for the Big Swally on the 25th and back to Glasgow on the 1st Nov for Glasladies’ Beer Is For Everyone.

Join us if you can!

🆕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A brown beer in the Belgian style with the trademark fruity Abbey Ale flavour profile and fortified with organic Deglet Noor dates.

Rich and complex aromas of dried fruit and banana mingle with delicate nutty and spice notes in a beer that’s soft, smooth and deliciously easy drinking.

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Line-up revealed for Beer Is For Everyone fest - Beer Today The Glasladies Beer Society has released the full brewery line-up for the 2025 Beer is for Everyone festival, to be held on 1st November

The Glasladies Beer Society has released the full brewery line-up for the 2025 Beer is for Everyone festival, to be held on 1st November beertoday.co.uk/2025/09/29/b... #beer #beernews #beerfestival #glasgow @glasladiesbeer.bsky.social

A nice write up of an enjoyable brew with Jim last week. Really looking forward to this beer being ready! 🍻

It's always a pleasure to be able to publicly say new @stfermentations.bsky.social beers in stock. We're fans and we think you should be too...

🍻 Table Beer - 2.9%
🍺 Dunkelweizen - 5.5%
🍻 Vienna Lager - 5.5%
🍺 DDH IPA - 6.5%

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It’s been a huge pleasure to have Jim ISBF here for a brew today. A few handfuls of spruce tips, juniper, some choc rye, a load of floor malted Pilsner and nae hops. Should be just the job on a rainy November night in Salford @salfordbeerfest.bsky.social

Women’s beer group to host Glasgow tap takeover The Glasladies Beer Society, a group for women and non-binary beer enthusiasts, is marking Glasgow’s 850th anniversary with a tap takeover this week.

Women’s beer group to host Glasgow tap takeover www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/09/wome... @teamdb.bsky.social

A timely read as we’re about to release our 2.9% Table Beer, which we brew with Euro/noble hops as well as US varieties. We do this for flavour and because the resulting complexity helps a lower ABV beer punch above its weight.

Not sure yet… 6ish?

Next Thursday - 4th September - you’ll find us and a whole load of our tasty beers at the wonderful Crown Posada in Newcastle.

If you’ve been before, you’ll know what an awesome pub this is. If you haven’t, come and find out!

Loads of cask, loads of keg. Side helpings of chat.

Cheers!

Look at that list!

So proud to be on it… and so looking forward to being back in Hemsley House 🍻

Saddened by the news of Sir Geoff Palmer's passing. The one guest lecture he gave during my time at Heriot Watt was outstanding; packed with anecdotes, energy and charisma off the scale. And brewing/distilling was just one element of his life! A truly unique man and a great loss, RIP.

What's Brewing: Heavy Nettle We take our brewers Jonny and Greg aside to look under the bonnet of one of our many beers. We’ll kick it off with a bit of technical detail, and then move into the emotional realm...

Those talented Gan Yam folks are as good with words as they are with beer, so check out this write up on the delicious nettle sour we brewed recently, then buy some and try it!

Just don’t expect to find out what nettles taste like 😅

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Less than 300 responses for this petition to get an official response from the government. Take two minutes to do something good today.

Yay, festival season!

As someone with tinnitus myself and dad to a son with hearing loss, it’s great to see a bit of chat around this. Dave from Ride Brewing was an advocate for better provision in Glasgow, but he’s now living on Gigha where it’s no doubt less of an issue 🏝️

Remind me about this when I see you tomorrow

Cheers Jeff!

My latest round of beer reviews for Drinks Retailing.

Let’s hope so! It’ll be interesting to see how this goes over the next few weeks, especially for the smallest breweries without existing pubco relationships.

I have, I meant more general chat. I guess I just see less chat about things like this since Twitter died!

I’m sure the underhand methods department is working overtime right now…

Scots could see better beer selection in pubs after new rules, minister says The Scottish Pubs Code comes into force on Monday and will enable tied pub tenants to offer a wider range of alcohol.

I’ve not seen much chat about this but it seems like it should be good news for small breweries and pub goers in Scotland…?

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Today’s @thetimes.com column is one I’ve been itching to write: the rise of British-brewed proper lagers that rival the gods of Germany and the Czech Republic! ) Please click and dwell! www.thetimes.com/article/68e0...

Quick reminder that we’re doing a live drink along podcast thing at 8pm this Sat.

Grab 4 of our recent beers & enjoy a side helping of brew chat. Order via the website and we’ll post tomorrow 🍻

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Bohemian Pilsner | Simple Things Fermen

The water here in Glasgow has a very similar profile to that in Plzeň, home of the Pilsner. Our annual Bohemian Pilsner release is brewed with Czech malt, hops and yeast, is lagered for 6 weeks and is can conditioned.

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Join us from 8pm this coming Saturday for a live drink-along podcast thing with the Hop Addition folks!

I'll be chatting about four beers from our current range, which are available as a box set on our web shop now...

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Will do, cheers!

We released Smoked Rye Porter as number 2 in our Big Ideas Series. Making the 2025 version no. 40 seems a fitting way to both mark 5 years in business and to round things off; there will be no BIS41. We will of course keep on exploring the less well represented styles, we just won’t be counting.

I put July on FB and Insta too, weird 😵‍💫