Beer Snob Blog - Nice

Nice Beer

Back to France. Second time this year. Nice this time, a stay of about a week though 3 days were spent train exploring.

Nevertheless, Nice proved a wonderful base and provided a couple – others do exist – of interesting watering holes.

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Beer District (beerdistrict.fr)

Finished our first day at Beer District. Serendipity arranged said craft beer emporium a few minutes stroll from our hotel. Again. Loving that serendipity vibe.

Beer District doesn’t, unfortunately, open until 6pm. Every day. It closes 12,30am. Every day. Consistent. Fifteen taps of beery besties plus a sprinkling of cans in a fridge behind the bar entice. The vast majority were French – as it should be – with the odd European interloper.

Ale quality, for a wine obsessed country, was particularly palatable.

Loads of indoor and outdoor derriere alighting. That said, music inside a tad loud and a lot rubbish so outside beckoned. Though a smidgin past 6pm warm enough to enjoy the great outdoors. Marvelous.

Allez Hops (https://allez-hops.com/)

Sus discovered (google helped) Allez Hops, an enjoyable 20 minutes stroll from our hotel. Allez Hops is part tap room, part bottle shop, part brewery. A beer holy trinity. Nine taps delight with bottles and cans on shelves and in a fridge.

There’s inside seating shared with brewing paraphernalia. As should be. Outside pavement seating is shared with an attractive neighbourhood.

The head brewer is American. Julie, also American and his wife, was on bar duties. We discovered both have lived in Nice for many years and have little intention of returning to the US. Perhaps wise.

A genuinely convivial neighbourhood bar/tap room/brewery. Time constraints doomed us to just the one visit.