Bourganel

Microbrewery in Vals-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 🇫🇷

Established in 2000

Contact
7 avenue Claude Expilly, Vals-les-Bains, 07600, France
Description
Christian Bourganel, entrepreneur and innovator, lover of beer and Ardèche, was considering a solution to promote these two elements. After a few months of reflection and work with the IFBM (Institut Français de Brasserie et Malterie) in Nancy, the fruit beers of the Ardèche were born in 1997, initially brewed by the Brasserie Castelain, but the stated objective was the creation of a micro-brewery in Ardèche.

The installation of the brewery in Vals les Bains is done in 2000 and on June 1, 2000, the Brasserie Bourganel offered its first Ardèche brew to local customers. Faced with the success of these beers, the Bourganel Brewery acquired new, more efficient equipment in 2004, and since then, each year, expansions have been carried out. In February 2006, the brewing room was changed and fermentation and aging tanks were added to increase the production capacity to 4,000 hectoliters per year.

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4.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
330ml bottle. Clear dark orangey golden colour with small collapsing white head. Intense sweet artificial nougat and almond aroma. Initially slightly watery dry taste, later with intensening almond note; not too sweet, but flat and simply not my taste.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jun 2012 at 10:00

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
330 ml bottle. Pours green with no head. Smells like nuts and fresh cut grass. Tastes chalky and herbal. Very different...
Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2012 at 22:06

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
330 ml bottle. Pours a goldent yellow with full head. Aroma of honey, nut and yeast. Sweet, light, and metallic. Little body. Maybe a good summer evening beer if cold.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2012 at 10:39

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 3
330 ml bottle. Pours a clear copper with very light head. Aroma of nuts and sweat. Flavor of bitter almonds, hazelnuts, and peanuts with some malty tones. Interesting but not a beer and doesn’t taste like another.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2012 at 09:35

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 3
330 ml bottle. Pours a yellow brown with a light but lasting head. Very strong nutty nougat nose with a hint of vanilla. Liquid nougat flavor with little other than some late and light bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2012 at 12:49

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Draft @ Little Delirium. Orangée, col blanc pétillant. Arôme est sympa avec le nougat qui ressort bien, le tout sur un bouquet fleuri et fruité houblonné. En bouche, le mariage nougat ne va pas vraiment, et je pense que une bière à base brune ou du moins présentant un meilleur profile malté aurait été plus adaptée. On y retrouve le nougat avec ce profile de Bourganel cad une sorte de farine de marron avec ce fini pétillant fruité amer qui gâche un peu le tout. Le nougat est présent sans être trop en avant, fini sur une pointe de levure avec un houblon citronné qui prend un peu le dessus. Dommage car l’idée originale était intéressante.
Tried from Draft on 02 Apr 2012 at 16:41

4.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle 330ml.Clear medium green colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy, herbs, flowers, tea, spicy, soap, peppermint. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, peppermint, flowers - herbs. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is fizzy. [20120317]
Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2012 at 09:02

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Ulfborg Scooper Smagning 2012. Pale green with a small white head. Green beer on St Patricks Day? How lame! Aroma of tea and cane sugar with a mineral note. Sweet sugary flavour with floral and herbal notes and a hint of citrus
Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2012 at 14:07

4.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle @ FOneFan. Happy St Patrick’s Day. Clear greenish with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit and herbs. Flavour is malt, sweet, herbs and sugar.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2012 at 14:06

3.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottle @ Mid March Tasting, Ulfborg 2012. Pours clear green with bubbles on top. Herbs, coriander and toothpaste. Medium bodied. A whiff of metal and alcohol.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2012 at 14:04