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First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. ABV: 8.5 per cent 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 to the grain as well as the grape. Admittedly [...] ABV: 7.5% Rabourdin Bière de Brie Ambrée 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die Beer sellers: Cave à bulles. Rarely can beer claim a goût de terroir of the sort boasted of in the upper echelons [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.8% 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 Flanders, still dotted with old-established farmhouse breweries [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2004 Origin: Saint Sylvestre Cappel, Nord, France 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 language itself persists in places. But the [...] |
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