Express de Lyon

Another recommendation from Simon at Cave á Bulles.  This was actually five minutes from my hotel, and I had actually walked past it without giving it a second glass glance.
As location is everything in a city like Paris, the street right in front of the Gare de Lyon is filled with brasseries serving food and [...]

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Paris – Le Quincampe

If you are in Paris, there are good reasons that you might find yourself in rue Quincampoix. It is the street where you find the beer shop La Cave à Bulles, recently praised here on the blog.
I asked Simon if he could recommend some places to have a beer, both around town and in the neighbourhood, [...]

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What I brought home from Paris

I am not going to blog about the tasting notes for every beer I dragged home from Paris, but here are a few nice ones from Brasserie Thiriez, located in Flanders, just a few kilometers from the Belgian border. Maybe a place worth visiting if you are driving through the area? Both bottles bought from Cave [...]

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Paris – Au Trappiste

One advantage of France is that it’s close to Belgium. (Most French would raise their eyebrows, and many Belgians would point out that its misfortune is that it’s close to France. But there you go). Beerwise, that is.
This means that the logistics of importing Belgian beers should be easy. In fact there is no excuse [...]

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Beer in the Louvre

I tried hard. Looking for traces of beer among the masterpieces of the Louvre. I did not have any explicit instructions from Alan as I had when visiting the Museum of London, but nevertheless..
There were lots of wine in the paintings, the one of the right is a detail from the Wedding at Cana in [...]

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A compensation for vertigo

We went to the Eiffel Tower. Of course.
But it’s not for me. I fell down a flight of stairs when i was two. And since then, I feel very uncomfortable about heights. Cliffs are OK. Planes, too. But not buildings and stairs.
So I left them in the queue and went off to look for something [...]

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The one beer place to visit in Paris

Sure, there are more beer places than one in Paris. But it is certainly the most important place – and you’ll get some good advice on where to go next as well.
Simon runs the Cave á Bulles beer shop in Paris. In some cities a specialist shop like this menas a trek into the suburbs. Not [...]

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Both a success and a failure

Sometimes I really hope a place is better than its reputation on the major beer sites.
Especially when there is a chain of brew pubs established over several years, trying to create a British pub atmosphere in France. They have beer names with inventive puns, six house brews, and a fine web site documenting it all, [...]

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Left Bank brews

We got up early on Saturday morning. Really early. The whole family stumbled out of the door at half past five in the morning, walking through the empty streets towards the airport express train.
Luckily both the boys slept on the plane, and finding our way through the RER and Metro system went very smoothly, meaning [...]

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Back to the blog

If I have seemed a bit remote in the blogsphere lately, it’s been because I’ve been away.
To a city where most people said: Forget the beer, drink wine inestead.
Well. I tried the wine as well. But there’s lots of great beer if you go looking for it. Lots of crap beer, too. As everywhere.
Watch this space!

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