Brasserie Castelain
Bénifontaine, Hauts-de-France, France · Est. 1926
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Founded at Bénifontaine in 1926, in the coalfield south of Lille. In 1979 Yves Castelain launched Ch'ti Blonde, a bière de garde named for the region's own word for itself — one of the beers that carried the style out of farmhouse survival and onto the national market.
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Founded 1926 at Bénifontaine; Ch'ti Blonde launched by Yves Castelain in 1979.
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