Blond beer 5.8 ° 33 cl Brasserie du Mont-Blanc
It is in 1821 that one finds trace of a first brewery in Sallanches. Mr. Rabenak then employs one worker and sells 6,500 liters a year. In 1861, Mr. Essig, director of a Bavarian brewery in Lausanne, set up a brewery in the city on both sides of the Avenue de la Gare. The case is taken again in 1875 by the chocolatier Antoine Pissard. Then by Mr. Challamel in 1890, in association with the Brasserie Saint Jean in Geneva. In 1902, the company became "Challamel, Boucharge and Viard" before taking the name "Bière du Mont-Blanc" in 1911. In the summer, the Brasserie du Mont-Blanc produces more than 4000 hectoliters of fermented drink, against 150 hectoliters in Autumn. The cellar with its vitreous steel tanks is maintained at 0 ° by the recovery of ice from the pond on the edge of Arve. When the winters are not cold enough, the brewers will then look for ice at the feet of the Bionnassay Glaciers or the Bossons. Forty brewers work there. The Brewery stopped all activity in 1966. But that was without counting on the determination and passion of a young Savoyard: Sylvain Chiron. In 1999, he raises the "Beer of Mont Blanc" ...