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Tour of the former Dumesnil brewery with OCRA
Closed at the end of the 20th century, the former Dumesnil brewery is the heir to the Marché aux Chevaux brewery, bought by Georges Dumesnil in 1840. Its innovative brewing processes (temperature control using the thermal stability of the underground, yeast strain selection with Louis Pasteur…) led it to expand and relocate several times, from the 13th arrondissement of Paris to Ivry-sur-Seine via the 14th.
Today only the underground part of the facilities remains (bought by the Richard brewery, and the focus of the guided tour) in Ivry — still one of the last examples of integrated production, with an output (bottom-fermentation) exceeding one million hectolitres in 1959.
Duration: about 2 hours, including a tasting of 5 beers of different styles related to the tour theme.