Brasserie des Abers
Microbrewery in Ploudalmézeau, Bretagne, France 🇫🇷
Once upon a time, a man called Joseph Adam, decides to create his own company: the Adam company. It was in 1936 that he decided to set up as a wine merchant at the tip of Brittany, between Aber Ildut and Aber Benoît.
Very attached to its territory and the land of Iroise, it is with the ambition to produce a beer with resolutely local flavors that the brewing adventure begins. The Brasserie des Abers was created in December 1999. To begin with, a logo was created, displaying the lighthouse of the virgin island in effigy under a sunset.
Launch of the first beers:
In 1999, the brewery launched its first product: La Mutine. In order to be a unique and easily identifiable beer, Joseph Adam decides to create an original logo. Indeed, the “Mutine” range has as its muse a Breton pirate, hair blowing in the wind and smoking a pipe. Through this rebel, there is a desire to show our independence from the formatting of large industrial groups.
A few years later, Jean Adam, son of Joseph Adam, continued the adventure. Finally, since the 2000s, Véronique and Éric Godet-Adam have been the current players.
A horizon that continues to develop:
Then, the years pass and the Brasserie des Abers continues to develop. It was in 2003 that a new beer appeared: La Ouessane. Ouessane is a blond beer with high fermentation in which is incorporated at the end of cooking, "wakame" food seaweed. This beer represents the geographical position of the Abers. Then, to celebrate the 70 years of the parent company, the Brasserie des Abers launched a new beer called the Dolmen which is a red beer. Finally, in 2018, a new brand of traditional beer appeared: La Brestoizh.
If for our entire team, brewing and making a beer is first and foremost a story of passion and authenticity, it is also and above all for the pleasure of sharing it and enjoying it with as many people as possible. Thus, today, if our beers flow in many bars and are found in all the major retailers, they are especially present throughout the year at many local festivals and events.
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Mutine Ambrée from Brasserie des Abers 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of berries - especially cowberries. The flavor is sweet with an artificial fruit note, leading to a dry bitter end.
yespr (55573) reviewed Mutine Ambrée from Brasserie des Abers 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Sample from bottle. Pours unfiltered orange. Aroma of fruit and malts. Flavour is bitter/sour, spice and fruit. Finish is bitter dry.
CloakedDagger (37568) reviewed Mutine Ambrée from Brasserie des Abers 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of Grovlam. Pours a very cloudy orangey golden with an off-white head. Fresh and fruity nose. Quite light in body with fruity and spicy notes. The finish is dry. Quite pleasant and drinkable. 230407
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Mutine Brune from Brasserie des Abers 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Gushing to creamy, coffee-cream coloured beer, fed by lively carbonation in a murky red-brown-olive beer. Great malt whisky nose, not unlike islands malts. Brown malts, tad wood and smokey, piney. Leafy, earthy, slightly smoked taste, perfectly balanced (at 6%, I’m more than impressed!). Woody, malty flavours, tad of chocolate, but more mild-sweet than bitterish. Not cloying! Medium to well-bodied, certain slickness, "earthy" feel. Wow, this is good! Another proof that the strength of France’s AND Brittany’s beerrevival lies for a big part in their dark malt beers. Try to find this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Orange, slight (cold?) haze; slim white head reduce to rim in seconds. Short, sharpish spicey nose - and it has a tang of salt = the algae! Bit of pine as well. Outspoken dry, lemonzeste flavout. 1 problem: falls flat after this. If I taste some salt in the finish, I wonder whether it’s suggestion or real... Some powdery mouthfeel, superposed on the dry character. Interesting - but nothing more.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark-hazy amber; very little head. Faint malt nose, some garden herbs - doubtlessly the flowers meant. Again, faint taste of coloured malt. Finish is slightly acidic, like lime-tree blossoms' tea. Light bodied. A bit disappointing. It is a session beer, for the not overcritical.
omhper (45152) reviewed Mutine Blonde from Brasserie des Abers 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Pale yellow and cloudy with very lively, firm head. Light soapy, orangey aroma. Sweet and clean with a touch of almond, but overall very mild and neutral. Cheers fiulijn!
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Mutine Blonde from Brasserie des Abers 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Golden color; big frothy head. Nice hop aroma, herbal, light. Simple, weak flavors, a bit sweet, oily; lack of hop and bitterness.