You are passionate about craft beer, you are always at a pub, you love everything about different types of beer, brands, ingredients… and now you wish to go further: you want to learn how to brew it and see the process yourself.
If you are in Paris, we have got some great news for you: you can find plenty of brewing workshops and courses, for the beginners and the initiated alike.
Take a look:
In a rush? Here are my top picks:
- The least expensive: La Beer Fabrique
- The most complete: Mashrooms
- The most organic: La Brasserie du Roi
Ma Bière
14 Rue Caillaux, 75013 Paris
Here, they will really teach you the secrets behind the brewing process and the use of ingredients. You will also taste some good platters of cheeses and cold meats that go with 5 different beers!
You can select out of 20 different types of beer to brew: white, amber, pale ale, red, stout, and others.
At the end, you get to take 20L of beer with you.
Prices: €160 (1p) | €180 (1 brew kettle, 2p) | €320 (2 brew kettles)
Duration: 4 hours
Max number of people per lesson: in pairs, total maximum of 24 people
What we like about it: Workshop and tasting combined into a single experience.
➡ Reservations and additional information (Page in French)
La Beer Fabrique
6-10 Rue Guillaume Bertrand, 75011 Paris
La Beer Fabrique offers a training which is fun, well-explained, and very intuitive. It also has a good theory/practice balance.
It includes an introduction to beerology, a tasting of 6 styles of craft beers with explanations about each one, and all the steps of the brewing process. They also combine teaching with quizzes and a few fun stories.
After the workshop, you will get a pack of two 33cl hand-crafted bottlesfrom the brewery as well as a 50cl bottle of the beer you’ve made yourself.
For those who still want to practice even further, they also offer professional training.
Prices: €60
Duration: 2 hours
Max number of people per lesson: This workshop is individual, which means one person per mash tun
What we like about it: A comfortable experience made possible by the limit of 6 people, which allows you to enjoy it, for example, with a small group of friends for a birthday or a bachelor party.
➡ Reservations and additional information (Page in French)
Les Houblonneurs
32 Rue Lemercier, 75017 Paris
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Les Houblonneurs has a brewing workshop that offers you some great knowledge in a short time. The lesson goes through all the stages of brewing, supervised at all times by a professional brewer.
It also includes the tasting of different types of beer.
After 14 days, you return there to bottle the beer and customize it with the label of your choice. At the end, each brew kettle (1 or 2 people) gets 40 bottles of 50cl each to take home.
Prices: €160/brew kettle
Duration:
- First session (brewing) – 4 hours
- Bottling session 14 days later – 1 hour
Max number of people per lesson: in pairs (or individually), total maximum of 20 people
What we like about it: You get to choose which kind of beer you want to brew out of a very long list!
Website: https://www.leshoublonneurs.com/ (Page in French)
Brew Unique
1 Rue des Jeuneurs, 75002 Paris
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This is a very nice workshop where we get to choose the style of beer to be brewed from about thirty different styles (triple, stout, aging beer, IPA, and many others).
You brew the beer yourself on site with your partner (or alone) with the help of a professional.
After 4 weeks, it’s time to come back for the bottling. You then get 18L of your own beer (36 bottles of 50cl in 4 packs) to be shared with your lesson partner!
Prices: €160, valid for 2 people
Duration: 4 hours
Max number of people per lesson: in pairs, total maximum of 14 people
What we like about it: The tasting combined with the workshop.
Website: https://www.brewunique.com/ (Page in French)
Mashrooms
2 Rue Gustave Rouanet, 75018 Paris
Here, you can choose among 3 different workshops.
- The “Discovery” option lets you learn a little more about beer and participate in mashing the malt and the fermentation. You have 5 recipe options: Witbier, Weizen, Porter, Stout, and Berliner.
- The “Intermediary” option is for those who want to explore making Belgian beers and the use of hops. You have 12 more recipes to choose from, such as Pale Ale, IPA, Saison, Dubbel, and Kveik.
- The “Advanced” one is for exploring lagers, goses, sours, tripels, seasons and other ales in stainless steel cylindrical-conical Grainfather fermenters, which are temperature-controlled.
You take 18L of beer home with you.
A little secret: You can brew on Mondays / Tuesdays on request.
Prices: Découverte €150 | Intermédiaire €180 | Avancé €200 available for up to 2 people
Duration: 7h (6h brewing, 1h bottling)
Max number of people per lesson: in pairs, total maximum of 8 people
What we like about it: The Grainfather stainless steel cylindrical-conical tanks that enable you to control the fermentation temperature (advanced workshop). The fact that a pair can share a 36-50L brew kettle is also pretty cool!
Website: https://mashrooms.fr/ (Page in French)
A Day in the Wab Microbrewery (With Marine)
75011 Paris
Here, you get to spend an entire day handling ingredients and being instructed on the different brewing processes in a real Parisian micro-brewery.
Delve deeper into the different stages of beer brewing such as mashing, filtration, boiling, hopping… In short, you get access to in-depth technical knowledge tanks to a professional brewer (the bar is also on site). Something you definitely don’t see every day!
The tasting naturally includes different options such as Pale Ale, IPA, Wheat IPA, Berliner Weiss, Red IPA and more.
At the end, you can take home with you 2L of beer in a growler. If you are patient enough to wait for the beer to ferment, you can also take it home a month later!
Prices: €99
Duration: 6 hours
Max number of people per lesson: 1-5 people
What we like about it: A workshop that is a little longer than the others and gets you deeper in the knowledge of the brewing process.
➡ Reservations and additional information (Page in French)
Brasserie du ROI – 100% Organic (With Mélissa, Hugo ET Ronan)
Versailles
Next stop is the beautiful city of Versailles! There we will find a very unique workshop.
These professional brewers will let you choose from among their recipes specially conceived for this workshop. All the recipes are 100% organic.
As for the rest, we have the classic brewing workshop. Mashing, rinsing the spent grains, boiling, and hopping.
During the pauses, everybody enjoys a nice local beer tasting.
You will then return 2 weeks later for the bottling, after which you will take home 15L of beer, so 30 bottle of 50cl for each person.
Prices: €160/pair
Duration: 4 hours
Max number of people per lesson: in pairs, 2-20 people
What we like about it: the fact that the ingredients are 100% organic
➡ Reservations and additional information (Page in French)
La Brasserie des Regards
28 rue de l’Ermitage, 75020 Paris
By pair, come participate to the Brasserie des Regards workshops to brew your own hand-crafted beer.
In association with local producers, the recipe will be chosen according to the ingredients disponibility.
You will be able to learn the many steps of beer-brewing from malt crushing to mashing.
At the end, you will either be able to directly go home with 10L of the beer of your choice, or you can come back a few weeks later to bring home your own hand-crafted beer.
Prices: €195/pair
Duration: 5.30 hours
Max number of people per lesson: in pairs
What we like about it: The brewery ecological commitment with the use of local ingredients
➡ Reservations and additional information (Page in French)
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