It was in the spring of 1997 that Dominique Camus, a chemical technician better known by the nickname Léo, moved with his family to La Chapelle Saint-Ouen. A few months later, Northmæn craft beer was born!
During the first years, the production is done in two, in an old barn of 200 m², with milk tanks, where 700 liters of beer came out every day. In the meantime, the young brewer buys up to 30 hectares of land to grow his own barley, and effectively becomes a farmer. Likewise, the brewery becomes a farm-brewery. The first Norman whiskey, named Thor Boyo, was released Christmas 2002.
Subsequently, to meet the exponential demand for beer (and soon for whiskey), a new 1500 m² building was built in summer 2004. This brewery is constantly evolving, with a current area of nearly 2,000 m², from which 4,000 liters of beer (4,500 hectoliters per year) come out daily.
A new cellar is being built to increase the production of whiskey, and a distillery is in the pipeline to free the brewery and thus allow the production of beer to be doubled, as well as to offer a 100% organic range in the short term.
