Recomendations for Bordeaux and Basque Country

Hi,

You can find here a list of nice craft beers related places in Aquitaine. For Bordeaux (you can look at 33 -Gironde and for Basque Country at 64-Pyrénées-Atlantique).

I don't really know well this part of France but this will give a good idea. You can also check Untappd while you're there. I know one very nice brewery in Bordeaux worth seeking out, they're named Azimut Brasserie. Here you've got there website (they have an English version) and here there BA page!

There also some nice breweries in Spanish Basque Country as Basqueland Project, etc. You can find some listed here.

I'd be glad to welcome you home and share with you some nice French and European craft beers and enjoy some NE beers with you but I'm not really near Bordeaux (only 700km away)... Anyway, if you want to visit Rhône Valley (I live in Valence), just ask me!
Cheers

 

Some more hints;

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/beer-bars-in-sw-france-ne-spain.388183/#post-4533295

 

If you can drive, in Angoulême (north of Bordeaux), the brewery La Débauche (one of the best in France) opened a taproom, worth a stop!

 

When I visited San Sebastian in 2016, I liked the following places:

Drop - https://goo.gl/maps/q6eLu94udBo
Akerbeltz - https://goo.gl/maps/gaXW4ooUDn12
Mala Gissona Beer House - https://goo.gl/maps/2EDnvL5e5Y52

All of them had interesting local and international beers available.

Same trip on the French side of Basque Country (Biarritz), amount of interesting beer places decreased considerably and can't recommend anything from there.