Ninkasi

Microbrewery in Tarare, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 🇫🇷
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1997

Contact
1 avenue Edouard Herriot, Tarare, 69170, France
Description
Initiated by 3 young graduates, the Ninkasi was born from a simple idea: to implant the concept of American micro-breweries in France. This project was completed in 1997 and takes place in Lyon, on the Gerland site. In 2012, the factory moved 50km from Lyon, to Tarare more precisely. The new playground for our brewers has a capacity of 5,000 liters per brew (i.e. 23,000 HL / year).

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from La Cave à Bulles, Paris
Cloudy golden color, with a huge head (overcarbonation). The aroma is lightly smokey, earthy, and with pinenuts. Good malt flavor, with a dry side, with a reasonable body structure and good bitterness level too. Atypical beer, but well made.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2008 at 04:47


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Courtesy of La Cave à Bulles, Paris
Cloudy blond color. The aroma mixes some hop and malt. The mouthfeel is round enough, there is some sweetness, some malt; very little wheat, low bitterness. Well balanced.

Tried on 10 Jun 2008 at 06:28


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a huge orange head. The aroma is acidic sweet with notes of vegetables and citrus. The flavor is sweet and very spicy combined with notes of malt and caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2007 at 16:03


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of toffee, over ripe fruits, and vegetables. The flavor is sweet mlaty with primary notes of berries, but also lighter notes of metal and hints of an underlying acidity.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2007 at 15:59


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Copper with a small and bubbly white head. Malt aroma with an unpleasant note of apple peel. Sweet malty flavour, rather ordinary.

Tried on 22 Aug 2007 at 18:10


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized creamy beige head. Aroma is quite yeasty with some malts in it. Also some hoppyness and sugar in it. Flavour is malts, caramel, sweet fruits and some slight spicyness. Fruity hops in aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2007 at 01:15


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled. Dark amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is malts, hops, some caramel and raisins. Flavour is malts, plum, raisins and some caramel. Very acidic and sour.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2007 at 12:56


6.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Red-brown with a creamy off-white lasting head. Malt and toffee in the aroma. Malt dominated flavour with some bacteria tartness. Supposedly not meant to be that way, but I liked it a lot :)

Tried on 21 Aug 2007 at 10:28


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle (Alc. 5.1%) @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Unclear medium amber color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, brown sugar, sour. Flavor is moderate sweet and light sour, with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2007 at 08:04


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Clear medium amber brown color with a small, fizzy / creamy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is vinegar / balsamico, sugar, dark malts. Flavor is moderate sweet and sour with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watey, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2007 at 04:41