Skip to content

Paris Beer Festival: The Bars

Published on 23 May 2025

I’m back in Paris! This time the reason for my visit is a beer festival—my first French one—and a run—also my first French one!

I didn’t try any of the newer—cheaper—train options available, but took the comfortably quick Eurostar again. After arrival, I whipped out my Navigo card—which surprisingly still had a lot of rides on it—to take the métropolitain to my hotel for the weekend. After check-in, a coffee and banana bread at Kaffeebar 19, I was ready for a day of beer bars!

The slanted nose of a red Eurostar high speed train, waiting at the platform in Brussels Midi. The red lights give away this actually is the back of the train.
A busy platform in the station, red Eurostar trains on either side.
Paris Nord station in the background, an art nouveau style metro entrance in the foreground
The metro arriving in the station.
Double bed in a hotel room

With some bars only opening at four or five, it was a bit of a puzzle, but in the end I had a schedule that enabled me to visit all the bars and breweries I picked out for this trip! First up was Paname Brewing Company, near my hotel.

View on the terrace and facade.
A beer on the bar at Paname Brewing Company.
A brewer between his kettles and tanks at Paname Brewing Company.

After that I had to take the metro again to get to Le BaB OPERA. While they didn’t actually have a Paris Beer Festival event on Friday, they still had most beers from a Nuka Brewing tap takeover the day before.

A drawbridge, with a very high and steep pedestrian bridge right next to it.
Facade of the bar.
Five small stemmed glasses filled with beer on a bar, tap handles in the background.

There were no events at I.B.U Petites Écuries and BEER Paris either, but they had some nice beers on nevertheless.

Facade of the bar
Facade of the bar/shop
A glass of beer on the bar, a cutting board with a dry sausage and bread next to it, the tap handles and the menu in the background.
A beer at BEER Paris. 
Blackboard with beers listed in the background.
Fridges full of beer, customers queueing.
Racks full of beer.

At Les Cuves de Fauve they did have a PBW event: a Sudden Death tap takeover and collab brew.

Last stop of the night was L’Atalante—back near my hotel—where they had a Kauri Brewery and Wabi Brewing tap takeover. I could easily have spent hours in each of those bars—all new to me—but it was nice to at least have visited them briefly!

A lovely glass of beer on the bar.
A bowl of Chicken strips with a tub of sauce.
A glass of beer on the bar

Published inNewTravel

Be First to Comment

Something to say?

Discover more from Martijn.be

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading