Worthwhile French Beers: Hellemus
I may have mentioned that we brought back some beer from Lille. It turns out Nick got a photo of the lineup, so now I can share it with you. We haven’t come close to getting through them yet, seeing...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Moulins D’Ascq
Looks like this French beer quest has some momentum! It turns out that once you start looking for something, you really do see more of it. Since I’m feeling optimistic, I’m covering two beers from...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Strasbourg Edition
Like I mentioned last week, Nick and I spent a weekend in Strasbourg, the largest city in Alsace. Alsace is France’s most important beer-producing region, and by “important” I mean that in terms of...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Britt
Thanks to Nick’s skill at sniffing out beer shops, and my diligence in reading labels, we found some beer from Bretagne! We were eager to try it when we got home, so into the freezer it went for a...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Page 24
Page 24, from Brasserie St. Germain, may very well be the best French beer I’ve tried so far. Brewed in the Pas-de-Calais region in the North of France, using only regionally produced malt and hops,...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: La Mandubienne Blonde
This is pretty much the last post I expected to write in Burgundy Month. But yes, Nick and I did stumble across a locally made beer while in Dijon. When we go on these weekend jaunts, I research the...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Ninkasi IPA
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Worthwhile French Beer post. Not for lack of tasty French beers, but mainly for lack of patience for taking tasting notes when I’d rather be playing Cribbage or...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Thomas Beckett Bière de Noël
As Calvin’s Dad once said, “I think Santa would rather have a cold beer.” (Enjoy that link, by the way. Terribly distracting.) According to the brewer, the Thomas Beckett Brewery, which is based in...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: La Klintz
I had last week off work, and while I didn’t manage to stockpile blog posts as I had hoped, I did manage to stockpile material for blog posts, which is almost as good. I also spent a lot of fruitless...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Le P’tit Klintz
Despite the long interval since my last Worthwhile French Beer post, I seem to have found the most similar possible beer to write about this time. As you can see, this one is also organic, also from...
View ArticleVictorian Square, Sparks
Is it gilding the lily to prolong a vacation that was already a month long? One that has now been over for almost three weeks? Maybe so, but I’m doing it anyway. I still have vacation food photos to...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: Agent Provocateur
It almost feels like cheating to call this a French beer, since Agent Provocateur is brewed by a Scotsman. Craig Allan studied the science of brewing and distilling in Edinburgh, and after a decade...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: La Caussenarde
Several weeks ago, I joined my friends Ann and Chris at the Aveyron fair in Paris. Right off the bat we stuffed ourselves with local specialties like aligot and farçou, and then decided to walk it off...
View ArticleWorthwhile French Beers: La Véliocasse
Saturday morning dawned, as many weekend days do in Paris, bright and sunny. Despite the cold, Nick and I thought we’d take a day trip to one of the many small towns around Paris. We like to do this...
View ArticleBeer Month, and the Return of Worthwhile French Beers
Longtime readers of this blog (and pretty much anyone who’s ever met me) know how much I love beer. So when I saw (via the always awesome Jenni, aka Pastry Chef Online) that Sophia of NY FoodGasm had...
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