The Jean Boyer company, grower of aromatic plants and liqueur seller, owes its name to the abbot of the same name who used to be the chaplain of some boy scouts. With them he founded a kind of community which got involved into producing artisan spirits.

Today, the production of Pastis Boyer is only of 100 000 bottles a year against 140 million (including all the brands sold on the French market).
Contrary to the distilled alcohol, the macerated alcohol is much more complex with aromas of various plants and spicy notes .

This traditional know-how was almost entirely forgotten but was resurrected by the Abbé Boyer. As he was a child, he had observed men of his village who filled in their glas with some water of a fountain after having poured out a few centilitres from a bottle in which several aromatic plants had been macerating for several months.