Will it be the trendy beverage of summer in the Southwest, where chocolate bread is banned? The artisanal brewery Ice Breaker Brewing of Montrabé (Haute-Garonne), opened barely two months before the start of confinement, has been marketing since Thursday a new beer made from unsold chocolates from several bakeries. Nothing Toulouse is a light brunette, at 7 degrees. The brewery had to start selling bottles to individuals to overcome the crisis. But it pursues its objective of "responsible production. We donate part of our profits to associations that defend the animal or climatic cause. With chocolate beer, we are fighting against waste, ”underlines co-founder Anne-Sophie Bigot with her husband and a friend.
"On the nose, we recognize the pastries that come out of the oven"
At Ice Breaker, we are not afraid to experiment, even if it means embarking on a fairly technical manufacturing. “For the Nothing, we add a concentrate of chocolatine to the brew, after baking and then drying the pastry to degrease it. The result surprised Jean-Patrick, one of the first to taste it. “On the nose, we recognize the pastries that come out of the oven, the sugar brings a creamy flavor to the taste, we smell of grilled malt. This is what I call a dessert beer! "
Integrated into the classic range alongside 4 other beers - including two IPA (Editor's note: India Pale Ale, style of high fermentation beer of English origin) and an amber with Chaï spices -, the Nothing will be available in several variants. While waiting to be able to taste it under pressure in Toulouse bars, the first 1000 bottles are sold on the brasserie's website.