Brasserie de la Pigeonnelle
Microbrewery in Céré-la-Ronde, Centre-Val de Loire, France 🇫🇷
Contact
10, rue de la Ronde 37460 Céré la ronde, Céré-la-Ronde, 37460, France
Description
Going back twenty years, he brothers Stephane and Ludovic Hardouin, both lovers of Belgian beers, live in the Paris region. For 6 years, they traded beers, and developed an address book with restaurateurs, wine merchants and winegrowers. In 2002 they decided to strengthen their activity. No more reselling and making their own beer at home. They got started by setting up their brewery in Céré la Ronde in 2003, near their family.
Today it is a growing business of 4 people. Each year production is increasing (+ 10% / year on average) and the maximum production capacity has not yet been reached.
The beers created by the brewery are 100% pure malt (barley and malted wheat). They are unfiltered, unpasteurized and refermented in the bottle. Among the brewery's projects, growing their own hops. Since 2019, it has been home to the first hop plants. The idea is to supplement the hop purchases and why not, to make a beer from this house culture.
Today it is a growing business of 4 people. Each year production is increasing (+ 10% / year on average) and the maximum production capacity has not yet been reached.
The beers created by the brewery are 100% pure malt (barley and malted wheat). They are unfiltered, unpasteurized and refermented in the bottle. Among the brewery's projects, growing their own hops. Since 2019, it has been home to the first hop plants. The idea is to supplement the hop purchases and why not, to make a beer from this house culture.
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium white head. Slight hazy deep yellow body. Herbal fruity dandelion aroma with smoky honey notes. Dry-sweet fruity honey taste with mealy herbal notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft, slightly flat, mealy mouthfeel. Dryish fruity honey aftertaste with mealy herbal spicy notes. Nice, drinkable. (0.75l bottle, wine monopoly, web order.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2013
at 14:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
bottle from Cave a Bulles Paris. Cloudy browinish golden colour, mid-sized fluffy brownish head. Fruty nose. Medium-bodied, highly carbonated start with a lot of yeasty fruit flavours and some hints of caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2012
at 03:15
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from la Cave à Bulles, Paris
Cloudy pale blond color with medium sized, persistent head. It’s a light bodied beer, where the aroma and flavor show a strong character of cereals, bread and baking yeast; it’s dry with correct bitterness.
I had better low alcohol beers, but we can’t say this is too bad.
Cloudy pale blond color with medium sized, persistent head. It’s a light bodied beer, where the aroma and flavor show a strong character of cereals, bread and baking yeast; it’s dry with correct bitterness.
I had better low alcohol beers, but we can’t say this is too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2012
at 09:54
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle from La Cave à Bulles, Paris, bb 25.09.2014
Dark brown color, with fizzy pour, and small frothy head. Mild aroma of roasted malts, dry chocolate and light chemicals. The mouthfeel is very dry for this gravity, there is some roasted malt flavor, light chemicals, some yeast presence, and mild but annoying liquorice in the end; also, there is a light alcohol warmth and metallic feeling.
It doesn’t seem right.
Dark brown color, with fizzy pour, and small frothy head. Mild aroma of roasted malts, dry chocolate and light chemicals. The mouthfeel is very dry for this gravity, there is some roasted malt flavor, light chemicals, some yeast presence, and mild but annoying liquorice in the end; also, there is a light alcohol warmth and metallic feeling.
It doesn’t seem right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2012
at 03:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is yeast, malt, fruit, citrus. Flavour is yeast, malt, orange, fruit, apple, citrus, spices. Medium body. Ordinary beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 02:07
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sourness, orange, yeast, apple. Flavour is sourness, orange, yeast, apple. boring beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2012
at 02:48
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle shared. Pours cloudy yellow with a white head. Aroma of citrus, some fruit, but mainly nasty phenolic. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Pretty bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2012
at 14:24
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle at home in London. Pours cloudy gold with a light, white foam head. Aroma holds some doughy wheat, light tangy lemon. Light sweet flavor, dry wheat, perhaps a bit too much tangy lemon. Light bodied with high carbonation. Light sweet flavor, mild dry grains, wheat, faint herbal bitterness. The over-carbonation is a bit of a hang-up here, as is the excess tang.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2012
at 14:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Pours a hazy yellow color with a large frothy white head. Good head retention. Aroma of sweet caramel malts, fruit and honey. The taste is marzipan, honey and faint spice. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2012
at 22:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cave a Bulles. Pours dishwater gold (or dirty orange juice) with a transient fizzy white head. Aroma suggests citrus. Sharp carbonation. Near med body. Flavor is citrus, and it seems more of a wit than a standard Belgian. There’s some yeast in the finish, and it’s rather refreshing in a light citrus manner.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2012
at 06:45