Bretagne?

[MeridianFC]

I've a friend, now resident in Spain, that is visiting Bretagne for holiday and was looking for any breweries/beers that would be recommended from that area.

Merci.

[JorisP]

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.bou/brasseries/regions/bretagne.htm

There's a map too.

More on:
http://www.artisanpress.com/



In general, a lot of these Brittany breweries produce good to outstanding beers. The absolute speciality must be the beers from dark grains blé noir, like Telenn Du or Gwiniz Du , that are unlike any dark beers elsewhere ("Du" is Breton for black).

Personally, I liked beers by An Alarc'h, des Dialouligs, Lancelot, Nantaise, du Trégor,...
Joris

[MeridianFC]

Thanks very much I'll pass this info on.

[stronk]

wow, green! Crazy.

Sorry for the deeply unhelpful post, Meridian

[CiderJoe]

I should have written something sooner. I've been back from Bretagne for a while now.

The brewery I went to see was the Lancelot Brewer. You can find them on the web at www-brasserie-lancelot.com (http://www-brasserie-lancelot.com)

Very nice place. Set on the site of an old gold mine, which is evident in the address, Site de la Mine d'Or. The Brewer/Owner, Kerdode Stephane (I apologize for the spelling, I can't read he writing very well) was very nice to talk to. He also "studied" at Sision DuPont.

7 or 8 beers normally made plus 3 seasonals.

Most highly recommended are TELENN DU (Black Harp, which used to have one on the lable until the good folks at Guiness took offense), a dark malty beer, BONNETS ROUGES, made with 4 kinds of peppers, so it's alittel spicy but malty and has a beautiful red (I mean really red) colour, and PAYS De COCAGNE, which is super malty (pure malt as he put it) but very well balanced.

The others are CERVOISE LANCELOT, DUCHESSE ANNE, LANCELOT, and BLANCHE HERMINE.

Don't expect to find these beers in the States anytime soon. He already had greater demand than capasity only exports to Switzerland and Italy so far.

If you plan to visit (not just this brewery, but anywhere in Bretagne or France) call way ahead, like weeks, and ask very specific questions about opening hours. They won't volunteer anything. They might tell you there open that day, but when you get there, they'll be closed and gone on vacation. So be prepared. Learn some french or bring someone who speaks it well. Usually their English is sh!te.

Thanks for the link earlier in the thread. Hope my post can be helpful for someone else in the future.

Cider