Craft Beer Paris

When you think of craft beer Paris, a growing movement of independent brewers and beer-focused bars transforming the city’s drinking culture. Also known as Parisian microbreweries, it’s no longer just about wine and champagne—Paris is brewing something new. For years, the city’s bars stuck to classic French wines and mass-produced lagers. But over the last five years, a quiet revolution has taken root. Local brewers are stepping out of their kitchens and into small taprooms, using French hops, wild yeast from the Loire Valley, and even chestnut honey to make beers you won’t find anywhere else.

Related to this shift are Paris beer bars, intimate, often hidden venues that focus on rotating taps, seasonal releases, and direct relationships with brewers. These aren’t tourist traps with 20 beers on draft—all imported. These are places like BrewDog Paris (yes, they opened here), La Bièrerie in the 11th, or Le Comptoir Général’s beer corner—where you can taste a sour brewed with blackcurrant from Normandy or a stout infused with French oak. Then there’s French craft beer, a category that’s no longer an oxymoron. It’s not just Belgians or Germans doing it right anymore. Parisian brewers are winning international awards for their saisons, IPAs, and barrel-aged ales. They’re using local ingredients, respecting tradition, but refusing to be boxed in.

The scene isn’t just about the beer—it’s about the people behind it. Many brewers started as homebrewers tired of the same old options. Others are ex-wine sommeliers who switched sides. You’ll find them chatting with customers, explaining how they used wild yeast from the Montmartre vines, or why they aged a batch in a used Cognac barrel. This isn’t corporate beer. It’s personal. And it’s growing fast.

If you’re in Paris and you want to skip the crowded wine bars and tourist pubs, you’ve got options. Try a tasting flight at a new spot in the 10th. Ask for a beer that’s only on tap that day. Talk to the bartender—they’ll know which brewery just dropped a new batch. You might end up in a basement behind a bookshop, or on a rooftop with a view of the Eiffel Tower, sipping a beer made with lavender from Provence. That’s the magic of craft beer Paris now: it’s unexpected, local, and deeply connected to the city’s rhythm.

Below, you’ll find real guides and firsthand takes on where to drink, what to try, and how to navigate the scene like someone who’s been doing it for years—not like a tourist with a map.