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Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 7% Origin: Trumilly, Oise (Picardie), France Website: www.st-rieul.com 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 […] Tri Martolod Blonde Artisanale Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 4.6% Origin: Konk Kerne, Penn-ar-Bed (Breizh), France Website: www.trimartolod.fr 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 […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 6% Origin: Lafrançaise, Midi-Pyrénées, France 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 […] First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. For more French beers see previous post. Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 5.8 per cent Origin: Esquelbecq, Nord, France Website www.brasseriethiriez.ifrance.com Thiriez La Rouge Flamande Like most place names around Dunkirk, the name Esquelbecq is originally Dutch – […] 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 Origin: Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Nord, France Sources St-Amand Germinal Ambrée The village of Saint-Amand, in a regional park southeast of Lille, was […] First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. ABV: 8.5 per cent Origin: St-Sylvestre-Cappel, Nord, France Website www.brasserie-st-sylvestre.com Saint-Sylvestre 3 Monts Think of French booze and you first think of wine. But pride in fine regional food and drink is deeply embedded in French culture, and extends […] ABV: 7.5% Origin: Courpalay, Seine-et-Marne, France Website: www.biere-de-brie.com Rabourdin Bière de Brie Ambrée 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die Beer sellers: Cave à bulles. An alternative version of this piece appears in the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die. Rarely can beer claim a goût de […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.8% Origin: Esquelbec, Nord, France Website: www.brasseriethiriez.com Brasserie Thiriez Daniel Thiriez seems incapable of making uninteresting beer: everything I’ve tasted from his self-named brewery has had something to say for itself as well as being consistently of high quality. The brewery is in the historic beer country of French […] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2004 Origin: Saint Sylvestre Cappel, Nord, France ABV: 8 per cent Buy from Specialist shops, beer festivals Saint-Sylvestre Bière Nouvelle The low-lying countryside of northern France is dotted with farmhouse breweries. Much of this area was formerly Flanders: Dutch personal and place names are everywhere and the […] |
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