When would a Frenchman drink beer; is it a significant part of French culture; as in Belgium?

Question

When would a Frenchman drink beer; is it a significant part of French culture; as in Belgium?

Answer 1

In bars, as drinks are expensive, beer is often if not always the cheapest option . While watching sports on TV. Also, when you' re a student. And no, the beer culture is not as significant as in Belgium.

Answer 2

My friend, who is a professor at the Sorbonne, sometimes drinks beer.  It depends on what we're eating.  

My French teacher and her husband, both native of France, like beer as well, but they don't drink it very often.  I think it's just an occasional taste of something different.

Answer 3

usually during a casual event like in a sports bar watching tv. when eating a meal with a family or when in a resteraunt they'd drink wine

Answer 4

There are hundreds of french micro-cultures - beer is something very usual in working-classes, as it was long cheaper than wine - and very usual too, in Alsace, Lorraine, Ardennes, Pas de Calais and Département du nord, both ancient flemmish provinces conquerred by Louis XIV on spaniards -

Otherwise beer in F is a summer-drink, or a rather proletarian drink.

Answer 5

French people tend to prefer wine. beer is more common in the working-class