Brasserie des Cimes

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

Established in 1998

Contact
152 Avenue de Saint-Simond, Aix-les-Bains, 73100, France
Description
The Brasserie des Cimes was created 20 years ago by an Irish-American, Michael Sweeney, who, seeing the rise of microbreweries in the United States, had the idea to implement the same scheme in France. He came to Savoie for the quality of the water. Michael Sweeney initially partnered with the Routin company, which carried the brewery for several years. In 2014, the company became fully independent.

Since its first beer brewed in June 1999, it has continued to develop its product offering. And its growth, which has been steadily increasing for several years. We hope to be able to make further progress, says Cindy Durchon, Executive Director. The Aix-based craft beer SME sold 32,000 hectoliters in 2018 and is targeting 34,000 hectoliters for 2019.

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5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Cloudy golden with with a tiny white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with malty and yeasty notes. Sweet yeasty flavour with fruits and malty notes. Finished sweet.
Tried on 09 Nov 2009 at 09:05

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of fruit, yeast, and some malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, malt, fruits, and nuts, leading to a dry finish - nice. From the name I’d expected smoke - where is that, but still a nice beer.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Nov 2009 at 08:33

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a thick and small white head. Aroma is spiced and slight yeasty. Yeasty and pehnolic flavorued. Light fruity and dry. Spiced and phenolic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Nov 2009 at 08:15

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a firm white head leaving laces. Yeast and lots of fruit in the nose. Medium body, fruit, vitamins and minerals. A vague underlying tartness. 091109
Tried from Bottle on 09 Nov 2009 at 08:12

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottled. A golden beer with some sediment floating around under a lazing orangey head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and some bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of metal, bread, malt, and straw, leading to a dry metallic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2009 at 10:10

4.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours golden with tiny floating impurities and an off-white head. Sweet malty nose - a little oxidized. Medium body, oxidized malts, an almost honey-like character, a little caramel and metal. Soft finish with no bitterness. 261009
Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2009 at 10:05

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours golden orange with yeast impurities and a small white head. Aroma is flat malty, light caramelish. dry malty flavoured, light bitterness. Malty and grassy bitter flavoured finish.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2009 at 10:04

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Clear golden with a medium white head. Sweet grainy aroma with herbal hints. Malty flavour with grainy accents and hoppy hints towards the finish.
Tried on 26 Oct 2009 at 10:04

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle. BBF 2003. Pours a slightly hazy orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty slightly yeasty caramel aroma. Sweetish malty yeasty caramel flavor with some spicy hints. Has a fruity yeasty caramel finish.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2009 at 06:48

6.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
bottle, Auchan Illkirch-Graffenstaden. Amber-copper colour, some floaties and a small white head. Aroma of caramel. Sweet, lots of caramel in the flavours, also hints of chestnut-honey. Not too sweet. I’m not normally a fan of that sort of beer, but I enjoyed this one.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2009 at 16:37