Marre du vin et du champagne pendant les repas, apéros, et soirées arrosées de fin d'année ? Here are some hoppy, malty, delicious alternatives to diversify your table this holiday season! Toutes les bières citées ci-dessous sont en vente à la cave à bière Allez Hops! (dans la limite des stocks).  The traditional Gueuze : a bubb...

Cosy alert: Brasserie Bleue's Winter Pale Porter will warm you up with just one sip. A variation on last year's Pecan Pie Winter Pale Porter, the Christmas season at the Brasserie Bleue & cave à bière Allez Hops will be marked by oak, honey and whiskey.  The base of our beer is an oatmeal ale, brewed...

Tucked away in a quiet side-street in the heart of the Vieil Antibes, you will find one of the Côte d'Azur's latest up-and-coming micro-breweries.    Don't blink !  The Impasse d'Andreossy has been, for the last two years, the street to get a freshly brewed cup of coffee or a pint of Collective Arts beer at the On...

NB : the first draft of this article was written during the first french confinement when the idea of an apocalypse was still a funny impossibility and too-oft repeated joke. Yikes. If ever the apocalypse hits, I like to think that I'll be prepared. No, I'm not talking about that kind of apocalypse with zombies and diseases and ...

What better way to celebrate your love for your significant other, with whom you've been locked inside for the last ten months... by spending another special night locked inside together ! We over at the Brasserie BLEUE predicted that Valentine's Day 2021 was not going to be spent in expensive restaurants, taking long romantic walks ...

It is customary that, during any beer or brewery-related meeting, beer be had (for obvious reasons). During our last Concours du Brasseur Amateur de Nice meeting at the Backyard Brews lair, we had an avant-première taste of their latest creation : a Rye IPA.  The Backyard Boys are no strangers to the grand and complex world of I...

I met Boaz back when he was brewing for Colgan's in Mouans Sartoux. Today, Bo is the head - and only - brewer at Brewbo, a small scale custom craft brewing company. Bo brews personalised beers served in personalised labeled bottles for "discerning clients who wish to set themselves or their event apart from the cr...

In special honour of the Tour de France kicking off its 2020 edition in the beautiful city of Nice, la Brasserie Bleue collaborated with their friendly neighbourhood bicycle repair shop, Bicicletta Shop, on a very special, limited-edition beer.  Beercicletta is the brewery's first - but certainly not its last - lager. ...

On Tuesday June 2nd, 2020, bars (and restaurants) were officially allowed to open their doors to the thirsty men & women of the deconfined Octagon. If you were naive like me, you thought that meant bars would be pouring their first pints during lunchtime, or perhaps apéro, on the afternoon of Tuesday the ...

In honour of the #LocalCraftChallenge launched earlier this month, I wanted to highlight some of the local crafts beer drinkers chose to swig and share on social media. In April, local craft beer is the beer of the month ! The #LocalCraftChallenge is the product of a handful of brainstorm sessions over Skype and beers with ...

G.O.A.T.  by BOUNDARY BREWING (Ireland)   "They can't lock me in here forever"  France's mandatory confinement has made it difficult to support local businesses this month. Good news is, most cave à bières are open during the lockdown as they are considered as an essential business (hooray for beer). In addition to this, ma...

DANCING QUINCE  by HOPPY ROAD (France)  The Hoppy Road brewery in Nancy, born in 2017, quickly established themselves as leaders and innovators in the French craft beer scene. In the last three years, the Hoppy Road brewers have released beers from classic styles to delicious and original concoctions.  Special mention for their Ameri...

PIÑA COLADA SOUR   by COLLECTIVE ARTS BREWING (Canada)   "a taste of summer in the middle of winter"  International beers - especially those coming from outside of Europe - can be quite difficult to find in the local scene. While it is vital to support and promote your local breweries, I do enjoy drinking around and checking out...

As 2020 kicks off to a beer-full start, I thought I'd share my favorite beers from the past year. I took a trip down my Untappd memory beer lane, and picked out my favorites from 2019: ten beers that I enjoyed the most because of their flavour or because of the moment in which they were savoured. 10. IPA Citra Galactique, IPA – ...