Mare Nostrum

Microbrewery in Castillon (Alpes-Maritimes), Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France 🇫🇷

Established in 2001

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1 Place Saint-Michel, Castillon (Alpes-Maritimes), 06500, France
Description
This artisanal brewery was established by Georges Bensoussan and installed in a stone building has been producing for more than 15 years top fermentation beers, citrus liqueurs, traditional lemonades, old-fashioned sodas or even lemonade and orangeade with fruits of Menton country for the most part originating from organic farming.

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5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle @ Aarhus-Randers tasting. Hazy reddish amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and spicy. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 040313
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2013 at 10:09

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Light bitter and sweet and spicey flavor. Average light bitter finish. Caramellic. Oily palate.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2013 at 08:45

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Clear amber with tiny off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, spices and caramel. Flavour is malt, caramel, spices, medium sweet, little nutty, hop and a little bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2013 at 08:45

5.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is amber with yeast sediments. Aroma and taste are caramel, grass, hops, spices and malt.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2013 at 08:44

5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
330ml bottle kindly shared by Finn. Hazy amber coloured body. Decent white head, spotty lacing. Spiced fruity aroma. Jam-like taste containing bready malts, berries, dried fruits and caramel. Herbal hops to the finish. Medium bodied. Rather unusual and partially exciting (at Finns in Tromsø, 02.01.2013).
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2013 at 01:45

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Flaske 0,33l fra Brune Rousse Houblon, Nice. Delt med Rune under rateseanse i H9 2 Jan 13. Aprikosfarget. Uklar. Lavt luftig skum som flater ut. Krydret fruktaroma. Smaken syrlig frukt og kandisukker.
Tried on 03 Jan 2013 at 11:03

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of heavy (thanks!).
Hazy pale orange coloured, medium sized white head, citrusy herbal nose. Very fruity, slight yeasty and wheaty with notes of spices. No real acidity, rather sweet witbier.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2009 at 06:49

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from a dusty 3-pack from a Casino store in Menton (5%). A great find in my opinion, it was the last one there. Poured a murky orange body yeah with a small off white head that went away at a medium pace. A citrusy and honeyish nose, fresh, spicy and quite pleasant. A pleasant agrumey taste, lightly bitter with distinct honeyish notes. Slightly yeasty and lactic. As heavy said, quite full bodied for a wit. Light bitterish aftertaste. A slightly atypical but still quite nice wit. I like this brewery. A lot.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Nov 2009 at 15:10

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
A 0.33 l bottle from a Casino store in Menton. It poured murky orange body with smaller head. Cloying wheat aroma, banana, orange and cloves are just the most prominent things here. Pleasant and pretty complex flavor, estery with all those wheat and yeast flavors, orange, vanilla, biscuit and some caramel. Really full bodied and very tasty, which is actually strange thing for Wits. Longer, pleasantly sweetish finish. This is a great Wit. Mare Nostrum brewery makes really nice beers, I’m sorry we haven’t find more than 3 of them.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2009 at 09:49

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at Saveurs d’Eléonore, Menton. Poured an orange/amber body with a small thick hazy white head. Plenty of floaties, lively carbonation. Pleasant honeyish maltines in the nose, mixing with notes of oranges and some spices. Pleasant light spicy taste, orangs, almost like a Belgian ale. Refreshing, with some hop bitterness showing up near the end. A lovely little find and definitely extremely underrated (see what one bad bottle that some of the former raters seem to have shared can do to a beer’s score...).
Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2009 at 07:49