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Simplicity
Category 12 Brewing
- From:
- Category 12 Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Saison
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 5.01%
- Reviews:
- 3
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 20, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 13, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
Sometimes the answer you are searching for is right in front of you. Itβs only when you take a moment to go back to the drawing board and revisit your calculations that everything comes together. Quite often, Simplicity brings clarity.
Showcasing organic spelt grain, this straw coloured, pearlescent ale starts with a lightly fruity and floral nose that leads into a subtle body with a crisp, dry finish. Clean and slightly bittered β with just a hint of European sass β Simplicity reminds us all to step back, relax and appreciate the finer details.
Welcome to the lab.
Showcasing organic spelt grain, this straw coloured, pearlescent ale starts with a lightly fruity and floral nose that leads into a subtle body with a crisp, dry finish. Clean and slightly bittered β with just a hint of European sass β Simplicity reminds us all to step back, relax and appreciate the finer details.
Welcome to the lab.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Tivlavrie:
Rated by Tivlavrie from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Apr 03, 2016
3.96/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Apr 03, 2016
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by N_E_Beer from Canada (BC)
3.56/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bought 4 pack of Simplicity Blond from Swiftsure Liquor Store in James Bay, enjoyed in a stein. Pours *very* pale straw, pretty frothy head. Aroma is....a bit funky, faintest hint of lemon. Carbonation I only noticed after drinking it, quite filling. Clean finish, I would say sessionable except maybe too carbonated.
This is not a beer bursting with flavour, taste is low-key floral, a bit yeasty. I've heard this is a bitter beer but that was not my experience at all. A good beer, but in a land of great beers.
Edit: never write your review before finishing the beer! Poured last bit into my stein and whoa, opaque! Okay, that looks proper.
Nov 20, 2018This is not a beer bursting with flavour, taste is low-key floral, a bit yeasty. I've heard this is a bitter beer but that was not my experience at all. A good beer, but in a land of great beers.
Edit: never write your review before finishing the beer! Poured last bit into my stein and whoa, opaque! Okay, that looks proper.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.91/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, part of the latest swath of this BC brewer's offerings to grace the shelves of our local Alberta booze emporia.
This beer pours a clear, very pale golden yellow colour, with one fat-ass finger of puffy, wanly foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves more than a bit of hanging rainshower lace around the glass as things lazily seep away.
It smells of zingy earthy yeast, gritty pale malt, muddled pome and citrus fruit, edgy white pepper and clove spice, and a faint earthy and floral hop bitterness. The taste is bready, crackery and slightly doughy pale malt, hovering malevolent yeast, mixed and matched generic orchard fruit, a minor suggestion of earthy, plain leafy and piney hop bitters, and some sort of unexpected sense of incoming alcohol astringency - say whut?
The bubbles are pretty much coached and trained for this very moment, what with their generously engaging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight for the style, and mostly smooth - only that lingering wayward yeastiness making an outward scene here. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as the base yeasty character that you may recall as already too oft-mentioned, seems to be on a crazy bender of sorts.
Overall, this is a rather engaging and particularly spot-on rendering of this Euro-specific style - all yeasty here, and crackery pale malt there, with the spice hanging on, and, well, y'all get the picture. Not the exact exemplar of simplicity, as the label wankery would have you believe, but zeroing in on it, to be sure.
Feb 23, 2016This beer pours a clear, very pale golden yellow colour, with one fat-ass finger of puffy, wanly foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves more than a bit of hanging rainshower lace around the glass as things lazily seep away.
It smells of zingy earthy yeast, gritty pale malt, muddled pome and citrus fruit, edgy white pepper and clove spice, and a faint earthy and floral hop bitterness. The taste is bready, crackery and slightly doughy pale malt, hovering malevolent yeast, mixed and matched generic orchard fruit, a minor suggestion of earthy, plain leafy and piney hop bitters, and some sort of unexpected sense of incoming alcohol astringency - say whut?
The bubbles are pretty much coached and trained for this very moment, what with their generously engaging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight for the style, and mostly smooth - only that lingering wayward yeastiness making an outward scene here. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as the base yeasty character that you may recall as already too oft-mentioned, seems to be on a crazy bender of sorts.
Overall, this is a rather engaging and particularly spot-on rendering of this Euro-specific style - all yeasty here, and crackery pale malt there, with the spice hanging on, and, well, y'all get the picture. Not the exact exemplar of simplicity, as the label wankery would have you believe, but zeroing in on it, to be sure.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Category 12 Brewing 'Simplicity Ale' @ 5.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear straw/pale gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-hints of fruit & floral
T-crisp & clean with a slight bitter finish
MF-lots of carbonation , medium body
Ov-interesting 2nd saison from C12 , ok beer
prost LampertLand
Dec 24, 2015A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear straw/pale gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-hints of fruit & floral
T-crisp & clean with a slight bitter finish
MF-lots of carbonation , medium body
Ov-interesting 2nd saison from C12 , ok beer
prost LampertLand
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