Simple Things Fermentations Collaborate - Cinnamon Bun Brown

The Belgian-style brown ale grist provides a soft, rounded foundation for cinnamon spice, creating layers of dried fruit, bread dough, caramel and chocolate with a subtly citrus edge.

A brown ale with notes of sweet cinnamon, sticky bread and brown sugar. Brewed in collaboration with Deanston Bakery for Beernomicon’s Cvlt Of Independence event, the Belgian-style brown ale grist provides a soft, rounded foundation for cinnamon spice, creating layers of dried fruit, bread dough, caramel and chocolate

We collaborated with a local bakery, Deanston Bakery, run by Yuriy, a Ukranian guy. The cinnamon buns are what the shop’s best known for, the whole place permanently smells of cinnamon, as does the area outside the shop. The buns are, obviously, incredible and have semi-legendary status in the Southside of Glasgow. So

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Cinnamon Bun x Brown Ale, collab with Deanston Bakery

4.8% / 440ml

A brown ale with notes of sweet cinnamon, sticky bread and brown sugar. Brewed in collaboration with Deanston Bakery for Beernomicon’s Cvlt Of Independence event, the Belgian-style brown ale grist provides a soft, rounded foundation for cinnamon spice, creating layers of dried fruit, bread dough, caramel and chocolate with a subtly citrus edge.

Description

A brown ale with notes of sweet cinnamon, sticky bread and brown sugar. Brewed in collaboration with Deanston Bakery, the Belgian-style brown ale grist provides a soft, rounded foundation for cinnamon spice, creating layers of dried fruit, bread dough, caramel and chocolate with a subtly citrus edge.

Simple Things say “Brewed for Beernomicon’s Cvlt Of Independence project, celebrating small independent businesses, it’s a beer that fuses the sweet-savory cinnamon spice that wafts constantly from the door of local legends Deanston Bakery into a 4.8% brown ale.

“It was a real honour to be invited to take part by the Beernomicon folks alongside the likes of Chapter, Donzoko, Full Circle and Rivington and we put a lot of time into the planning stage of this beer. Yuriy and his team at Deanston were up for it and – fuelled by cinnamon bun power – the idea became a recipe, which we brewed at the start of the year.

“The obvious thing would’ve been to brew a big ol’ pastry stout, throw a ton of cinnamon buns into the kettle and wallow in a sticky, sugary spicy mess. And that would’ve probably been delicious, and maybe we’ll do that one day. But we wanted this to be a beer that slips down a bit more easily, that’s drunk by the glassful and that maybe leads to another glassful. A brown ale with added cinnamon bun.

“The grist is from a Belgian brown ale recipe (and maybe we’ll do that one day too) with plenty of Munich malt to provide the requisite bread-iness. We added soft brown sugar, a pinch of nutmeg and, of course, plenty of cinnamon which we sourced from the same supplier as Deanston – and this proved to be the key to the beer. Supermarket cinnamon doesn’t smell of much; this cinnamon filled the whole brewery with the exact cinnamon smell that’s synonymous the bakery, before the packet was even opened.

“The result is just what we were after; a sessionable, moreish, harmonious blend of brown ale and cinnamon bun that combines the best of both elements. It’s fair to say it’s a departure from our usual style but we love it, Yuiry and the Deanston gang love it and we hope you love it too. And yes, it pairs really nicely with a well made cinnamon bun.”

4.8%

440ml can