Anyone fancy a beer – something different?

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artisan, Beer, brasserie, brewery, chestnut, France, La Croix du Rat, Mike Brookes, real ale, Sunday Beer

For the purists beer with the addition of chestnuts might seem odd, but this beer surprised me. I would not have bought it by choice, but wanted to taste the whole range from Le Croix du Rat. Surprisingly, it has a nice hoppy flavour, but I was not getting chestnut at all. Would go well with fish and chips or a pork pie (paté en crout).

The female view aka Jean was that it had a pleasant after taste of chestnut, but again would have not known it contained chestnut.  The label is a give away! She imagined herself somewhere in an English pub with a Ploughman’s in an English pub – (a good English cheese, pickle, chunk of bread, butter and some salad).

We both like the plea on the label of all the beers from La Croix de Rat to recycle the bottles by taking them back to the brasserie!

La Croix du Rat – Biere Blanche

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artisan, Beer, brasserie, brewery, France, real ale, Sarlat, Sunday Beer

Biere Blanche from La Croix du Rat is the first in the series.  It is made by a Steven Dunn, who is Irish but lives in St. Cyprien and has a stall at the bustling market of Sarlat. The market is held every Saturday morning and well worth a visit.

Mike – the real Yorkshire man who drinks real beer.

‘Light, perfumed flavour, well balanced, rather sweet for my taste, but for a beer at 6 per cent, not bad at all. Does not stay very long in the glass.’

Jean – not a beer drinker at all.

‘Flowery, not acidic, fine bubbles nice colour, I like it!’

We both liked the descriptive label and the plea to return the empty bottle to the brasserie. Good recycling and good business! The label was printed as one piece and wrapped around the bottle – very clever. Each beer has a really good description on the label of what has been used to make that particular beer.

Next Sunday – Biere Blonde