In Transit Blog: On Tap in Paris: Beer Week

The first ever Paris Beer Week (Saturday through June 1) will showcase the increasing number of French brewers who wield hops with panache.

At the moment, craft beer is a niche scene in Paris, as wine obviously has the upper hand.

Paris Beer Week's aim is to have drinkers offer the beverage the same consideration — attention to aromatic nuance, respect for savoir faire — so readily accorded to wine.

The week, peppered with tastings and events at 15 locations throughout Paris, plus five in the greater Île-de-France region, ends with a daylong celebration in the city.

The event was created and coordinated by Romain Lebel, who until recently worked as a software engineer.

Mr. Lebel was savvy about wine, but began seeing more interest in beer. It happened that his neighbor in Bagnolet, an eastern suburb of Paris, was Brasserie Outland, an artisanal brewery.

As his interest in craft beer grew, he wanted the word to spread beyond the small but avid community of connoisseurs.

Mr. Lebel said he sees craft beer as a return to something time-honored — "similar to what has happened with natural wine or the revival of the traditional baguette," he said. "Beer too is a fundamental: malted grains, fermented with water. It exists everywhere in the world."

Mr. Lebel was eager to integrate the movements happening abroad, from Belgium to Brooklyn, into his native city. "There isn't a brewing tradition in France, except in Alsace and Brittany," he said. "The people who started their breweries here had a revelation elsewhere."

The spirit of Paris Beer Week was about creating, as Mr. Lebel put it, "a regional manifestation of something more global."

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