Northmæn (Brasserie la Chapelle)

Microbrewery in La Chapelle-Saint-Ouen, Normandie, France 🇫🇷

Established in 1997

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154 Le Bourg, La Chapelle-Saint-Ouen, 76780, France
Description
It was in the spring of 1997 that Dominique Camus, a chemical technician better known by the nickname Léo, moved with his family to La Chapelle Saint-Ouen. A few months later, Northmæn craft beer was born!

During the first years, the production is done in two, in an old barn of 200 m², with milk tanks, where 700 liters of beer came out every day. In the meantime, the young brewer buys up to 30 hectares of land to grow his own barley, and effectively becomes a farmer. Likewise, the brewery becomes a farm-brewery. The first Norman whiskey, named Thor Boyo, was released Christmas 2002.

Subsequently, to meet the exponential demand for beer (and soon for whiskey), a new 1500 m² building was built in summer 2004. This brewery is constantly evolving, with a current area of ​​nearly 2,000 m², from which 4,000 liters of beer (4,500 hectoliters per year) come out daily.

A new cellar is being built to increase the production of whiskey, and a distillery is in the pipeline to free the brewery and thus allow the production of beer to be doubled, as well as to offer a 100% organic range in the short term.

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5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled. A hazy light yellow beer with a very white head. The aroma has notes of citrus, straw, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus, malt, wheat, and some straw, leading to a dry wheaty finish. Thanks yespr for sharing.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2010 at 03:45

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Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a cloudy pale yellow with a white head. Very dry and almost astringent fruity nose. Medium body, skewed strange fruitiness and an odd astrigency throughout - not really Bretty or anything though. An odd bird indeed. 110110
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2010 at 03:43

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is dry grassy and light citrusy hoppy. Citric hops flavoured mixed with a light fruity and mellow yeasty note. Bitter and dry citric finish.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2010 at 03:42

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small small white head. Aroma is dry malty and light phenolic. Sweet malty and phenolic. Light spiced and vague caramelish. Bitter and slight citric finish.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2010 at 09:01

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a pale amber with a slight haze and an off-white head. Astringent, fruity and yeasty nose. Medium body, fruity, phenollic and yeasty - but it works. Dry finish with hardly any hops. 100110
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2010 at 08:54

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle at Le Sous-Bock. Pours hazy to clouyd orange with a small to no head. Aroma is wineous and solid malty. Sweet malty, roasted, light spiced and yet again a bit oxidised. Ends dry malty and light bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2009 at 15:30

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Pours with a huge head and a stormy sea of bubbles, if the Normandy coast in autumn was a beer, this is what it would look like. Has citrus and hops notes with alcohol on the nose. Nice light grassy taste with caramel, malts, grains, hay. A very good one.
Tried on 20 Sep 2009 at 17:11

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Cervoise à la bruyère, refermentée au miel. Boisson paienne brassée sans houblon
At Le Sous Bock, Paris

Hazy blond color, minimal head. There is some smell of dirty water. Quite salty flavor, without malt, tasting like broth (stock) and with a light herbal bitterness, that recalls some very light liquorice aftertaste. Obviously the final is very short. It may be traditional, but it’s bad.
Tried on 13 Jul 2009 at 12:08

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours clear and pale yellow with a huge white head. Light sweetend citrus fruity aroma,vague perfumed touch. Mild yeasty too. Sweet and light malty flavoured, mild bitterness subdued by a pronounced fruity sweetness. Sweet flavoured finish with a light metallic note and slowly appearing bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2009 at 12:54

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from La Cave à Bulles. Dark brown color with a good tan head. Incredibly rich chocolate aroma. Less than medium body with sharpish carbonation. Flavor is real chocolate over darkly roasted malt. There is some sort of zing in it. Coffee, tobacco, something. A peppy porter or a thin stout is more like it. Ran out and got a chocolate cookie. This stuff is really good with a chocolate desert.
Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2009 at 17:41