This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 158: June 7, 2015
Diary entry:
Slept in a little this morning, then drove into the center of Paris for lunch, a little sightseeing, and to pick up some pastries we had seen online that we wanted to try.
The drive into the center was very smooth, until we were forced to cross over to the Ille Saint-Louis due to a closure from the Quai des Celestins through the Quai de Gesvres at the Place du Chatalet. This caused a but of standstill traffic to cross over to the Left Bank and then back over to the Right Bank on the Pont Saint-Michel and Pont au Change, but eventually we managed to get through and park.
I was honestly a little surprised when I realized that I had actually never been walking around that part of the center, the area surrounding the Centre Pompidou. I had been in Le Marais around the Place de Vosges and Saint-Paul, but not the western part.
We found a small restaurant that was teeming with local families for lunch, quite a decent selection of entrees and some sardines, and then bought our pastries from Les Fées Pâtissières and made the 4.5 hour drive back to the Netherlands.
A nice weekend – aside from the maniac on the drive in.
The Beer:
Name: Pilsener Organic
Style: Pilsner
Producer: Budelse Brouwerij B.V.
Alcohol content: 5.0%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Albert Heijn in Boxtel, the Netherlands
Decent enough Pilsner / Lager. A little weak in the bitterness.
Commercial Description: This pure pilsener is brewed from organic raw materials in the best family tradition. Together with the soft brewing water, that makes for a fresh beer with a refined taste.
