Les Cuves de Fauve sits at 64 rue de Charonne in the 11th arrondissement, a few minutes from Bastille, and reads as the home taproom of Fauve Craft Biere. It is a brewpub built around working tanks, where the brewery serves its own beers next to a short list of guest taps and food, per the official Fauve site.
Who would love it: a beer drinker who wants Fauve's hop-forward and fruited sours poured fresh at the source, in a room where the brewing kit is part of the design. Who would not: anyone after a quiet wine bar or a cocktail den, since this is a loud, tap-led room that fills with a young Charonne crowd.
The space puts the brewery on show. Steel tanks run along the room, the bar carries the rotating taplist, and the fit-out leans industrial rather than cosy, in keeping with Fauve's graphic, bright branding. Fauve grew from a Paris and Montpellier craft project into one of the more recognisable French independent labels, and this brewpub is where the team pours small-batch and one-off brews that do not always reach bottle shops, per the brewery's taplist page.
The order here is whatever is freshest on the board. Expect Fauve's core hazy IPAs and pales alongside fruited sours and seasonal one-offs, with guest taps filling out the list and cans to take away. The smart move is a tasting flight to read the range, then a full pour of the beer that lands, ideally something brewed on site. Pricing sits in Paris craft-beer territory rather than supermarket territory, which is the going rate for fresh independent beer in the 11th.
The crowd is a young eastern-Paris set, beer regulars and after-work groups early, a busier room on weekend nights. The taplist turns over often, so two visits rarely look the same, and the staff are used to walking newcomers through the board. It works best as a stop on a Charonne and Bastille beer walk rather than a sit-all-night destination, given the volume when it fills.
Best time to go is early evening on a weekday for a calm read of the taps, or a weekend when the full room and the latest small-batch pours are the point. Les Cuves de Fauve is the source stop on an east-Paris craft crawl. See where it sits among the best craft beer bars in Paris and browse the wider guide to craft beer bars by city, then plan the rest of the night through the Paris bar guide.
Getting there is easy: the brewpub sits on rue de Charonne a short walk from both Ledru-Rollin and Charonne Métro stations on line 8, in the middle of the 11th's bar strip. That position makes it a natural first or last stop on a beer-led night, since the rue de Charonne and Bastille bars sit within a few blocks. Cards work, cans are sold to go, and the taproom keeps evening hours later on weekends.
Pair this bar with
For the city's tasting-bar benchmark, compare La Fine Mousse in Paris. For a long bottle list and taps near the Sorbonne, try Brewberry in Paris. And for a canal-side brewery taproom, Paname Brewing Company in Paris makes the natural next round.
Sources
Fauve Craft Biere official site · Fauve: Les Cuves taplist · Paris Beer Festival: Fauve · Google Maps and Yelp reviews (accessed 2026-06)
Reviewed by Marcus Webb, barsforKings. Published Nov 12, 2025
