It’s the big 5-0 tomorrow. Just chatting to the kids there and pointed out that if I live to be 100 they’ll be nearly 70 so we can all go about with our free bus passes together. That shut them up 😅

That’s the shop open for the day, till 6pm. Top sellers in the shop yesterday? 1. Simple Things Fermentations’ Peated Brown Ale 2. The Veil’s whitebugatti Triple IPA 3. Cromarty’s AKA IPA

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I can’t now recall the thinking behind combining coffee, cardamom and coconut but it works 👌 I brewed this in my shed at least 10 years ago and now it’s on the bar at the Crown Posada. If you’re in Newcastle this evening come and hear the >140 characters version of the (admittedly nerdy) story

Come and join us in Newcastle on Friday next week! We’ll be propping up the bar at the wonderful Crown Posada where you’ll find a dazzling array of STF beers on cask and keg.

Our first pale hoppy beer of 2026: US Pale - a lovely looking and ludicrously tasty Pale Ale full of juicy tropical fruit with a zingy citrus-pith edge. It lands somewhere between a NEIPA and a Westie- is this a 'No Coast?' Doesn't matter. Good beer is good beer.

Always a great pleasure to catch up with the legends of Leith @pilotbeer.co.uk

I love it when you walk to the pub, sit down with a pint and a packet of crisps and get a notification saying “Move goal achieved”. Damn right! 💪

A decent evening right there.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

I’m going to open a vape shop, or possibly tobacconist, and call it ‘Wholly Smokes’.

I’ve been saving this until I had time to relax and enjoy it. Where better than Fell NQ with a pint of Tinderbox www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

Two new beers this week - Tenements Lager; 3.8% gluten-free. Our small batch take on a big Scottish favourite Belgian Christmas Ale; 2025's vintage is 6.3% with a Stout-y grist that's big on chocolate/dried fruit and Belgian-style fermentation 🤘🍻

I’ve just uploaded the 100th unique beer to the ‘Beers’ page on our website. I’m usually fastidious about doing this but I missed this one when we released it a couple of weeks ago… 🎉 www.simplethingsfermentations.com/beers

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. #bskybeer

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% #ShopIndependent #VivaStirchley

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 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.

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.

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 😅 ganyambrewco.substack.com/p/whats-brew...

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

My latest round of beer reviews for Drinks Retailing.

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…? news.stv.tv/scotland/sco...

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 🍻 www.simplethingsfermentations.com/product-page... m.facebook.com/TheHopAdditi...

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... www.thehopaddition.uk www.simplethingsfermentations.com/shop

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.

Next Thursday (13th July) we’re going to be at the Jolly Judge to launch Toledo, our new regular cask beer! 7 kegs lines, pouring a choice selection from our recent range, plus Wild Style bottle pours. Quite the evening of beery indulgence (and the ideal precursor to Valentine’s Day)!

We brew Bohemian Pilsner in late November/early December and leave it resting in the tanks over Christmas, giving the yeast plenty of time to do its job. Naturally carbonated, unfiltered lager takes a fair bit of time to produce, and it’s worth every second. Released this week. Enjoy. Na zdraví!

Storm Éowyn 1 Garden Fence 0 is the score so far… pretty wild out there

I’m reliably informed that our Burton IPA will be discussed on Alan Titchmarsh’s ITV show today. It starts at 9.30, I’m looking forward to some first class Sunday viewing! 📺

First trade mailer of the year just gone out and straight into my own junk folder! Doesn't bode too well...

Our annual festive release, Belgian Christmas Ale, made it onto the @shortlistofficial.bsky.social best of list! Cheers @abvolume.bsky.social! We only have a small amount left here but you'll find it in shops if you know where to look... www.shortlist.com/lists/best-c...

The humble cinnamon roll has a rich history, and goes by many names... There is even a celebration of this sweet treat every October 4th in Sweden 'Kanelbullens dag'. So by way of belated celebration we turn to @stfermentations.bsky.social Cinnamon Brown Bun. #SWSAdvent #Day10

Come get your Christmas beers! Featuring... @elusivebrewing.com @amitybrewco.bsky.social @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social @runawaybrewery.bsky.social @northernmonk.bsky.social @stfermentations.bsky.social and more 😋🎄🍻

We've just added a ton of stuff to the web shop inc. Brett Spruce 80/-, German Ale, T Shirts, christmassy stuff and... HOT SAUCE www.simplethingsfermentations.com/shop

I think @britbeerwriters.bsky.social should do an award for best mailer. Separate categories for trade and retail? I like to think we’d do ok. I certainly put the time and effort in…

At the shop tasting tonight the clear favourites were our Burton IPA and Old Red, a Burton-y Flanders Red. I think slowly, slowly tastes are coming around to beers of 200 years ago

🚨 This is your reminder that your local food bank urgently needs donations. If you can, please donate food at Tesco stores this week. 💚

Our second new brew of the week is a fresh batch of our delicious DDH IPA (6.5%). Inspired by the IPAs of 10-20 years ago, whole cone Amarillo along with big Citra and Simcoe dry hop additions remind us instantly of why we love this particular era of the the IPA style so much!

The first of two new STF releases this week is a brand new beer from us - Tenements (3.8%) is a gluten free lager with a crisp, refreshing, easy drinking character that’s proved to be pretty popular in this city over the years.

ISBF it's about people. People coming to meet up each year. The ISBF Family that comes together each year. The Brewers that comes to talk. And - ultimately - helping people is why we do this. Here's how you did good. www.salfordbeerfest.com/news/thank-y...

Met up with my folks today and was handed a box of teenage memorabilia. Here’s the drinks menu from the Hull-Rotterdam ferry, circa 1995. I hope I went for the £1.55 bottle of Leffe, but I probably didn’t. Pack of fags, £1.70 by the way

Hello, here we all are then. To celebrate our arrival in this brave new world, here’s a picture of liquorice root being added to the boil of our 1776 Porter, which coincidentally is released this week. Slainte!