There is approximately ten thousand years the risky fermentation of a piece of bread is at the origin of the discovery of the beer. It was consumed in Egypt, at the Greeks as well as at Romans. Very often poor quality drink it was consumed by the poor men and the workers.

The Gauls brewed a beer of quality called the barley beer. They seemed to master the art to brew this drink made from the wheat. The barley beer will be produced up to the means-age essentially in the regions where the vine does not grow. It is also at the means-age that the admixture of the beer is going to take place in abbeys and to become a craft activity.

In XVII eme century appear the first breweries in cities Breton as Quimper, Brest or Nantes.

The industrial revolution of XIX ème century allows thanks to discoveries as the steam engine of accroitre the production. Other discoveries as the pasteurization, yeasts are going to improve the quality and the hygiene.

XX ème century sees the disappearance of the craft breweries for the benefit of the big breweries and the multinationals. They will disappear of the Breton territory at the beginning of the 80s.

It belongs in 1985 with the creation of the brewery of both rivers to Morlaix and some beer Coreff that reival the tradition of the beer in Brittany. This revival terminates beers of big tasteless production nor character. Since it is more than around thirty breweries which saw the day showing that we can produce of the quality and be able to live on it.