Briarde Blonde, Brasserie Rabourdin

https://www.brasserierabourdin.com/

Brewed by Brasserie Rabourdin
Style: French Blonde
Seine-et-Marne, Courpalay, France

Hugues and Geneviève Rabourdin founded the brewery in 2001, and produce Bière de Brie with barley from their family farm in Courpalay, in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Located in the heart of Brie country, an agricultural region that has always been considered the grain store of Paris.

Diversifying into the beer market, they first started offering their beer in local markets and direct to sellers. After training at the IFBM (Institut Français des Boissons, de la Brasserie et de la Malterie) and with the installation of the brewery on the farm, the first Brie beers were produced, by the duo, in June 2001. They stick close to their roots using the local produce sourced from their own farm and with respect to their surrounding environment. All beers have an organic certification produced from pure natural farming.

In 2009, Estelle and Hubert Rabourdin took over the family business with the desire to develop the brewery onto pastures new, expanding the brewery and offering more in the range of craft beers, specifically the La Briarde beer in 2010, and also an IPA and a White Brie beer (which sounds interesting!). Their award winning beers now sell to the rest of the Île-de-France region and onto all of France.

Review: 33cl small glass bottle of Briarde Blonde, Brasserie Rabourdin: 5.7% vol.

Comes in a very stylistic jet black bottle, looks the business. very nice.

On pour first thing you notice is that not a whole lot comes out! Not much from the small bottle, which is a damn shame!

What does come out, is a very hazy and cloudy, golden coloured beer with a smallish white head, with a frothy look, but overall it is a decent looking brew.

Very fruity aroma, not bad.

Tastes very spicy, getting hit with those tastes at the back of the throat.

Hops are also very sweet. All a little sickly, but still manageable and goes down smooth.

Second bottle was in the fridge and came out very cold, which kind of killed the taste. Me bad. Resulting in a very tasteless (but cold) beer!

Overall it is an easy beer to drink, light and enjoyable enough for sure, but not going to set the world alight. Relaxing and refreshing but not getting enough from the small bottle for me to return to in the future!