La Franche

Microbrewery in La Ferté, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France 🇫🇷

Established in 2005

Contact
28 Rue Principale, La Ferté, 39600, France
Description
Two brewers, Jean-Yves Nauroy (42 years old, from Lorraine, saxophonist, bearded fisherman, dad and now brewer) and Régis Barth (38 years old, from Lorraine, scribe, grumbler, all fired up, dad and now brewer) welcome you in their brewery installed at the back of the barn in May 2005, self-financed, tinkered with, adapted and assembled by them.

Most of it consists of adapted, salvaged or second-hand equipment. Since July 1, 2007, they have been renovating an old barn and stable in the village of Revermont Jura, La Ferté. They started brewing there in June 2008 with the aim of increasing production to a livable level, ie 300 hl per year or 3,500 bottles to be marketed per month.

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Shared together with the Israeli RB crew! Thanks! 750 ml. bottle split by 4. Clear golden, only some bubbles. Nose is metallic, wine, almost urinal in its funk. Nose isn’t the best,.... Taste is nice, vin jaune, is glorious, barrel is really good, walnut & sweet wine oxidation, white grapes, interesting suflur like notes, funny beer, barrel is really great but the base beer is obliterated, low mineral qualities,... Body is near flat. Very tasty but only thanks to the wine profile, no real beer interplay. I quite liked but just drinking the wine would have been better.
Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2017 at 02:57

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle 375ml. @ Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Place Fontainas 8, Brussels, Belgium 1000. [ As La Planche Ode à La Vie ].Unclear matt medium orange colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, wheat, herbs, mustard, cellery, wine, minerals. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a long duration, wine, herbs, cellery, yeast, minerals, light funky. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160918] 8-3-8-4-16
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2017 at 04:31

7/10
Moeder Lambic Original 10th Anniversary ! Act #5 - La Franche
Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2017 at 16:33

7/10
Moeder Lambic Original 10th Anniversary ! Act #5 - La Franche
Tried from Draft on 25 Mar 2017 at 16:19

7/10
Moeder Lambic Original 10th Anniversary ! Act #5 - La Franche
Tried from Draft on 25 Mar 2017 at 16:17

9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 10
Pours unclear blonde, no head. Smell is walnuts, super intense. Taste is super full, absolutely intense wallnuts. Very complex, immensly intense, just rediculously awesome .
Tried on 25 Mar 2017 at 10:57

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
Pours clear blonde. Small white head. Smell is woody, bit fruity. Taste is full, woody, bit oxidized, kinda harsh. Not blended ib all that well. Afte the plache on vin jaune , this is a big dissapointement.
Tried on 25 Mar 2017 at 10:36

8.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 9
Bottle courtesy of kraddel, thanks! Very slightly hazy pale yellow color, thin white head. Aroma of light lemon, light tannins, vanilla, nuts, dust. Taste is nutty straw, lemon, lightly vinous, light tannins. Delicious.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2017 at 10:59

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Label claims 6% ABV Good, slightly lacy white head over clear yellow-golden beer. Spicy, pale malts’ nose, heliochrysum, grass. Dry, EU hops bitter, with a good pale malts sweetish background. Finish is dry hops again, peppery, and again a tad of helio- or rather xenochrysum. Bit toasted flavour too. Medium bodied at best, quite slick. Decent, even pleasing, nothing special. Thanks, Jezza!
Tried on 04 Mar 2017 at 08:48

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle at the hotel Bottle share Geisfeld. Amber brown colour lasting white head. Hoppy aroma quite interesting fruit in mouth some sherbet. Quite interesting. Odd fruits. Some dryness on finish. Nutty. Good though. Orange and satsuma flavours as it warms up.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jan 2017 at 15:26