Robespierre

What a clever friend.

<i>Leben wie Gott in Frankreich.</i>

amwosu

Kronenbourg 1664 is my favorite. The tiny grocery beside &quot;my&quot; apt. had a small upright cooler practically on the sidewalk as there was no storefront wall or window. I'd just grab a cold one as I headed to the apt. after a day of sightseeing.

logandog

Not a wine drinker, drank a lot of 1664 in Paris.

kerouac

Well, Kronenbourg was sold by Danone to a British company (Scottish &amp; Newcastle) many years ago. And Heineken owns most of the other French brands.

DaveBrad

Isn't that kinda sad? It's just like when you see a unique American &quot;microbrew&quot; like Red Hook or Widmer or something, and then find out they're owned by Anheuser Busch, Miller, or Coors.
Ah, well...

queener

just be happy you can enjoy ANY beer you like!! Found out a year ago I am a Celiac and cannot eat or drink anything with wheat, barley or rye (distilled liquor is ok) so NO BEER... Think how tough it was to go into British pubs and order a glass of wine rather than a draft of anything!! Have a beer, ANY KIND OF BEER, for ME!!

PalenQ

Yes and Godiva chocolates are i believed owned by Campbell Soups or some such megalith...the chocolate still tastes as good to me.

I enjoy supporting micro-breweries but the same brew brewed by a conglomerate in the same style could taste just as well...or better perhaps.

queener

Funny - I just looked up the Renaissance Vendome Hotel and it is just one block (further away from Tuileries) than the hotel we stayed at on our last Paris visit (Hotel Brighton) right on Rue Rivoli - great location.... there's a metro stop right across Rue Rivoli - Tuileries....

Robespierre

PalenQ - check out the offerings of Samuel Adams. They brew 19 flavors, any of which a micro would be justifiably proud.

samadams.com

DaveBrad

Yeah, I'm pretty stoked about our location, and the hotel is consistently in Tripadvisor.com's top 20 out of about 1500 hotels for Paris (it's been as high as 15th...is currently 18th). And, best of all we're using Marriott points for the stay...otherwise, we probably couldn't afford it!

J_Correa

queener - don't worry, I will drink a beer for you today, and tomorrow, and the next day...

Just wait until I tell my husband I am drinking beer for a fellow Fodorite who can no longer have any. He will really think I have gone 'round the bend - LOL.

queener

Actually he may be so shocked at the thought of NEVER drinking beer (at least &quot;regular&quot; beer) again that he will even want to drink one every day for me too?!!
Fodorites around the World - Beers away for the Queener!

robjame

&lt;&lt;It is &quot;UNE pression&quot;&gt;&gt;
kerouac - Thanks for correcting my gender confusion. LOL I always get these wrong and wonder how the French keep it all straight.

Christina

I think I usually get Kronenberg 1664, also, or Stella Artois.

Gender isn't really that difficult, as if you are raised in a language, it's just part of a word and normal and you just grow up and saying it is natural. Pression is obviously a feminine French word to me, you can usually just tell by the endings, there are patterns, and &quot;un pression&quot; just sounds awkward. Sure, there are exceptions (just like in Spanish) for some endings, but I think all nouns that end in -sion are feminine, I can't think of any exceptions to that one. It's like all nouns that end in -ment are masculine.

annhig

Hi, DAve - what sort of beer to drink in France? - personally, I find it very difficult to drink any french beer - it's too fizzy and tasteless - and stick strictly to wine. They make it much more successfully that they make beer, IMO.

so my answer to your question is - none!

Have a great time,

Regards, Ann

beanweb24

Have you explored www.beerintheevening.com? You can use the advanced search to put in the city/country, and a number of pubs in Paris are displayed. One particularly interesting looking pub is called Academie de la Biere. www.academie-biere.com This particular pub has a wide selection of beer from multiple countries. If you like Belgian beer, try a Watou Abt or Watou Prior. Yum.

Cheers!

Rastaguytoday

Back to the Original Question....

I like Kronenbourg 1664 and Stella Artois. If you are American, check out George Killian's Irish Red. It is brewed in the States by Coors, but is on license from the owner in Ireland to several counties. In France the S.A. Pelforth company produces this beer. Pretty good to take back to your room from a local store and it comes in a can.

crefloors

I like Abbe Leff. I'm not sure but it may be Belguin. I never looked at the label. It's not too heavy but has a nice flavor. I'm not a fan of real dark, heavy beer. I drink Newcastle here in the US and in Europe. I didn't see it in France, but if you are familiar with it, it shows the kind of beer I like. Flavorful but not so dark and thick you can eat it with a spoon. LOL

Barb_in_Ga

Queener--My DH is a celiac, so we have to watch out on our travels as well! You don't say where you are from, but you spell Celiac the American way, so you might check with your local Anheuser-Busch distributor, as they have just released a gluten-free beer called Redbridge Lager. I just called our distributor this week and learned that it is carried in Atlanta by Whole Foods Markets and Kroger.

If you are not in the US, try googling gluten free beer--a lot of entries come up. Hope this helps, Barb

kerouac

My favorite beer used to be (Belgian) Stella Artois, because it had a different taste from the other mainstream beers. In fact, it used to advertise that it had &quot;more hops&quot; (&quot;plus de houblon&quot and &quot;more taste&quot; than the other beers. Apparently, tasting different is not a good thing for mainstream beers, because the &quot;more hops&quot; disappeared years ago, and now it tastes exactly like every other lager available in France.
When I want something that tastes different, I now order a (French) &quot;Pelforth Brune&quot; which is a brown beer. Pelforth is (I think) still a French company, but it plays around just like the other brewers and markets &quot;George Killian&quot; internationally, a red beer that pretends to be Irish.