Lille – Cellars to take away

IBarely five years ago, one department out of two did not have a brewery. Today, 90% of French people have one less than twenty minutes from their home. In total, there are more than 1,800 brewers, the vast majority of them artisanal, who give beer a taste of the terroir. In this area, the Hauts-de-France are leading the race. It is difficult to establish precisely the origins of production in the region, as it was initially confined to family production. From the IX^e century, it became the prerogative of the monks, who had the monopoly of gruyt, a mixture of…