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Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6% Artésienne St Glinglin Limited Edition Single Hop Amarillo You’ll look in vain for the delightfully assonant St Glinglin (pronounced like ‘san-glan-glan’ but with French nasalised vowels) in the Dictionary of Saints. When a French speaker says something will happen on St Glinglin’s day, it’s [...] Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6.5% Thiriez Blonde d'Esquelbecq Daniel Thiriez began reinventing Northern French beer as far back as 1996. He ploughed a lonely furrow for some years – only from the mid-2000s have other startup breweries in the region dared to brew beyond established traditions. But Daniel maintains a commanding position [...] Top Tastings 2011 (Ambrée), Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6.5% Theillier La Bavaisienne (Ambrée) Northern French bières de garde are generally assumed to have deep historic roots in the local tradition of farmhouse brewing, though today’s best known and best selling brands are of more recent origin than you might expect. They’re revivalist beers [...] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 8.5% Brasserie du Pays Flamand Anosteké Brune Imperial Smout In November 2011 I was in Lille for a few days, checking out among other things the excellent beer range at the Abbaye des Saveurs shop in Vieux-Lille which will shortly feature in a Beer Sellers [...] From the archive: First published in the Oxford Bottled Beer Database May 2002. ABV: 7% Bailleux Cuvée des Jonquilles ‘Daffodil harvest’, a bottle-conditioned blond ale with a suitably floral label full of the cheer of spring, comes from an artisanal brewery at the Baron brewpub and restaurant, Gussignies, northern France. I picked [...] Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 7% St Rieul bière brune sur lie avec sa medaille d'argent de Concours Général d'Agricole, Paris 2011 The single frog on the label of these impressive beers from northern France refers to a sweet little parable about standing out from the crowd and refusing to bow to authority. [...] Tri Martolod Blonde Artisanale Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 4.6% One of a cluster of small breweries in Celtic Brittany, Tri Martolod — or ‘Three Sailors’, a reference to a Breton folk song — was founded in 1999 in the fashionable seaside resort of Benoded, operating as a cooperative. Prizes at [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 6% Brasserie Oc'Ale One of the surprises in store at specialist French beer shop Cave à Bulles in Paris is that craft brewing in France has now spread far beyond its historic home in the North, even to the warmer climes of the Midi. [...] First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. For more French beers see previous post. ABV: 5.8 per cent Thiriez La Rouge Flamande Like most place names around Dunkirk, the name Esquelbecq is originally Dutch – it means “acorn brook”. The village once boasted five [...] First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. For more French beers see previous post. NOTE: This brewery may since have closed. ABV: 6.5 per cent Sources St-Amand Germinal Ambrée The village of Saint-Amand, in a regional park southeast of Lille, was the location for the 1994 film adaptation of Emile [...] |
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