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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5.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
bottle, Auchan Illkirch-Graffenstaden. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma of honey. Rather light-bodied with smooth carbonation. Mild honey flavours dominate.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2009 at 16:36

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bottle, Auchan Illkirch-Graffenstaden. Hazy violet-golden colour with a small head. Aroma of berries. Fruity, slightly flowery, not too sweet. Better than expected.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2009 at 16:35

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Bottle at home ... amber ... sweet yeast very fruity some grape ...some mango definitly exotic fruit nose ... little bitter ... fruitess is quite so nice as the nose ... little musty ... lingers not so great...
Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2009 at 14:59

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Rating No.2600
Bottled(330ml). -Clear amber coloured, medium to big off-white head, odd candy banana nose. Low carbonation. Sweet malty, caramel and light herbal taste with notes of banana. Light bitter finish. Drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2009 at 10:08

3.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottled(250ml). -Toxic green coloured, medium to big white head, perfumy genepi nose. Very sweet and almost syrupy; genepi is dominant here. Also sweet finish with hint of lime in the finish. Not so pleasant mix.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2009 at 10:00

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Bottle courtesy of and shared with ogivlado (thanks!). Poured an odd shiny green colour that reminded me a little of olive oil for a second. Coloured with e102 (tartazine, yellow dye) and e133 (brilliant blue fcf), both known allergents. Lovely. Medium sized white head. Fizzy. The génépi can be detected in the (light) nose, which is a little radlery. The taste is light as well, soapy génépi is noticable (reminds me a little of thyme). However, it’s too sweet for its own good, sticky even, which doesn’t fit the herbal génépi taste at all. I guess the taste has taken a hit or two in the last couple of years because this is hard to drink and not very likable.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2009 at 11:25

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Bottle courtesy of and shared with ogivlado (thanks!). Poured a dark amber, brown/orange body with a medium sized slightly off white head. Brown sugar and banana in the nose. The taste starts of sweet, malty, orange and caramel, sticky, maybe banana again, and comes into a sudden halt when the light but crude and kinda unpleasant dry (hoppy) bitterness shows up in the aftertaste, ruining a lot. Ok, but nothing special overall I guess.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2009 at 11:16

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bottle - Pours yellow-orange with almost no head. It has big flakes of yeast floating around in it. It smells sweet and fruity, rather like cherries. The flavor is sweet and the fruit notes are interesting. I’m thinking lime for some reason. It’s medium bodied and a little bubbly on the palate, finishing just a little dry. Good beer.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2009 at 20:13

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Bottled(250ml). -4pack of different La Mousse (Violette, Chataigne, Framboise and Miel) from Geant in Briancon.
Honey stum coloured, medium to big white head, dusty honey caramel nose. Sweet honey and slight cardboard taste with thin palate and dry bittersweet finish.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2008 at 04:46

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Bottle courtesy of and shared with ozujsko (thanks!) Poured a dull hazy orange-gold body with a big thick white head that went away at a medium pace. Intensive aroma of oranges and yeast, quite Belgian. The taste is suprisingly pleasant as well. Again the pleasant notes of orange, a nice, herbal fresh agrumey hopiness, as someone said before, reminiscent of some pale ales. Some dry spicey notes, a touch of yeast near the finish and a lightly hoppy aftertaste. A nice surprise and a good light belgian style ale.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2008 at 11:40