Brasser sa bière. Charlotte and Alexis Champoiseau and Claire Sejournet. Illustrated by Emmanuelle Teyras

BRASSER SA BIÈRE

BREWING BEER

Charlotte and Alexis Champoiseau, Claire Sejournet Illustrations by Emmanuelle Teyras

je passe à l’acte

ACTES SUD

14 × 19 cm 64 pages 12 color illustrations softback october 2021 retail price: 10 €

Charlotte Champoiseau has been supporting local sustainable development projects for over a decade. Alexis Champoiseau is a craft beer maker. Together, they founded the Jean Brasse brewery in the Gers. In addition to an original range of nine craft beers, they offer brewing workshops for beginners.

Claire Sejournet is a journalist and former editor in chief of FemininBio with an interest in ethical and environmentally friendly lifestyles. She is the author of Mettre de l’éthique dans ses cosmétiques (2020), published in the “Je passe à l’acte” collection.

Emmanuelle Teyras is an illustrator in the worlds of publishing, the press, advertising, textiles and interior decoration. She has several books to her credit, including Mettre de l’éthique dans ses cosmétiques (2020), published in the “Je passe à l’acte” collection. A though the average French person consumes 33 litres of beer every year, this beverage that is so often a part of aperitifs is still not seen as synonymous with the French lifestyle. In part this is because of the way beer has become industrialised over the last century, with standardised production greatly reducing its diversity and gustatory appeal. And yet beer is an age-old beverage whose roots lie in ancestral savoir-faire and rich and diverse soils all around the world. However, since the 1980s there has been a renaissance of small, local, artisanal breweries. This community of brewers and amateurs is reintroducing diversity into beer by employing a variety of techniques and above all a wide range of ingredients. This guide invites us to join the movement and rediscover how innovative beer can be as we meet the small-scale brewers who are setting up shop all over France. They include Charlotte and Alexis Champoiseau, who founded the Jean Brasse artisanal and organic brewery in the heart of the Gers in 2015. In this book, they share their recipes, advice and useful addresses for becoming an amateur brewer and joining a dynamic network of initiatives dedicated to craft beer. In our cuisine but also at the scale of our regions, it is possible to make and drink beer differently. So let’s drink to the challenge and to many an evening spent setting the world to rights over a pint of the very best.