Brune Rousse Houblon

No Longer In Business

Brown Rousse Hops is closed (end 2018)

Small bottle shop with quite a wide spectrum of brews. It is close enough to Beer District Libération, and is a proper place to get some beers for drinking at your accomodation if you want to.

Friendly bloke running a small bottle shop out of a tabac (so great opening hours) with a lot of passion & interest. Interesting little selection - main french distribution international (US, UK and Continental) breweries plus various pretty local breweries (including the one down the street). Nobody need be disappointed if on holiday with a thirst. A haven.

been there on my holidays in last july and it was my supply shop for whole week. nice selection of belgian craft beers (few light beers in ice box as well because of the fire from heaven). Some french craft as well, beers from other countries rather a rarity

Every beer geek will find in rousse houblon his place. Maybe selection (especially for french craft beers) could be better but the place is definitely worth a ling walk from city centre.

If you read some of the recent reviews of this place, you have the right sense of the place. Therefore the rest of my review will be in danish. Et lille sjovt skævt sted i umiddelbar nærhed af Place du General de Gaulle, i den nordlige ende af Nice, hvor sporvognen også kører forbi. Stedet er et kombineret avis- og bladsalg / øludsalgsted (bottleshop). Forvent ikke et fancy sted med orden og plads, dette sted er mere ejerens hobby, der er kommet ned i en butik. Han er venlig, men meget dårligt engelsktalende, hvilket i sig selv giver visse udfordringer. Men han hjælper så godt, han kan og det lykkedes da at få hivet nogle oplysninger om fx. lokal øl ud af ham. Udvalget er ganske pænt med måske 100-150 forskellige øl og ikke 300, som skrevet på et skilt udenfor. Der er naturligvis mange franske øl, men også tyske, belgiske og enkelte skotske samt amerikanske. Derudover et udvalg af glas og enkelt andet merchandise såsom t-shirts og lign. Prisniveauet er ikke lavt, men henad Danmark. Til gengæld finder du sikkert øl hér, som ikke findes i vores kongerige. Bemærk at der er lukket mellem kl. 13 og 16. Som andre også skriver, er forretningen et must for øl-geeks, der er ude efter at finde et større udvalg end i de gængse supermarkeder. Jeg gik glad ud derfra.

Strax norr om järnvägsstationen hittas denna lilla tidnings- och ölbutik. Ägaren (?) kan ingen engelska, men pratar gärna på på sitt modersmål även om man förstår eller inte. Vänlig man dock som åtminstone försöker. Jag köpte 12 flaskor och han sken upp för varje exemplar jag ställde fram på disken. Priserna är överlag rätt dyra, men å andra sidan är Nice (och Frankrike) dyrt, så inget att hänga upp sig över. Främst hittas belgiska och franska öl, men där finns även en undangömd hylla med lageröl från framför allt forna och nuvarande kolonier. Vilket ju uppskattas om man vill bocka av nya länder. Jag riktade in mig på de franska mikrobryggerierna och hittade vad som i alla fall ser spännande ut. Väl värt ett besök. Och om man är i Nice finns det inget som ens kommer i närheten av Brune Rousse Houblon.

North of the main train station and the Liberation tram stop, it’s on the road running away from the tram lines on the right at the rotund Place General de Gaulle. This place at first glance is a newsagents, but wander inside and it is a proper beer shop with an outrageously fine selection for such a small shop unit off the beaten track. The majority come from France and Belgian, but the majority are also craft ales and you’ll be hard pressed to find many of what is on offer in here in the national supermarket chains. Other countries are represented here with a section of British beers including one brew from St Peters in Suffolk which I’d never ever come across before. It hurt to only be able to take away a handful of bottles given the extensive choice.

Visited on a Friday afternoon in March 2014. The place is small, located not far from the Gare de Nice. A sign outside the store said that they had 300 different beers. I am not sure if it was 300 bottles but they were plenty, both french and beers from other countries. (mainly Belgium and Germany). Most of the bottles cost around 3 EUR. The owner spoke very limited English but that was not a problem. Well worth a visit when in Nice.