Posts Tagged: Quebec
How Many Forms Of A Beer Leave It Still One Beer?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 in - 8 comments
Josh Rubin wrote a great review of Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique in the Toronto Star today. It's a beer I love, having had my first in May 2010 after a beer run to La Belle Province. But I noticed something on the bottle that accompanied Josh' article. The bottle said "Automne 2010" and …
Quebec: La Vache Folle ? Double IPA, Charlevoix
Posted by on Monday, October 17, 2011 in - 3 comments
Charlevoix is a favorite brewery of mine even if it was unknown to me just three years ago. I have loved their dubbel since April 2009. I picked up this one, along with some elk and wild boar sausage, at Broue Ha Ha a few weeks ago. • I was a little intrigued by the "?" Double IPA idea, the …
Quebec: Monseigneur D’Esgly, M'Brass' Île d’Orléans
Posted by on Thursday, October 13, 2011 in - 3 comments
What would he thought of it all? Monseigneur D’Esgly, the first bishop after the conquest of New France. Strong, black ale. Fitting? Fitting enough for me. I needed something richly purifying after all that mixed ethical talk. Who knew Joe won't accept samples? Win leaves it to the informed reader …
Quebec: Aphrodisiaque, Dieu Du Ciel, Montréal
Posted by on Thursday, October 6, 2011 in - leave a comment
What better to drink for election night here in Ontario than a beer that the LCBO deemed too hot. Not the temperature or the level of alcohol but that label. Yes, the state owned beer monopoly is anti-cleavage. How the Quebecers who made the beer must have laughed. h/t markosaar. Ontario sometimes …
Canada: Get A Bit Here, Another Bit There And A Bit More...
Posted by on Thursday, August 11, 2011 in - 1 comment
About 600 km farther westward later now. I have driven from an area of Canada first settled in the 1640s by Baroque explorers to one that came under the Victorian British plow around two hundred years later. When I was at the museum that sits on the spot where the French founded Montreal, standing …
Quebec: La Rousse, Belle Gueule, Brasseurs R.J.
Posted by on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 in - 1 comment
So, I am at a pretty good pizza cafe and order this beer but it's one-third of the way to Flemish Red which makes it extremely off... and extremely tasty. Is that bad or good? BAers respect it in its intended state.
I Knew I Was In Montreal When I Saw Port From 1963...
Posted by on Monday, August 8, 2011 in - 8 comments
One sign that you are someplace is when you see a wine from the year you were born on a shelf in a retail store. Not like I was going to buy it at over $500 a bottle (oddly, compare) but I was happy to contemplate one of the younger bottles from one of my kids' years of birth even as the Earth's …
Canada's Dirty Secret: Buying Beer In Another Province
Posted by on Friday, May 13, 2011 in - 10 comments
Of all the reasons to call in the cops, buying beer in one province and taking to another has to be one of the most important, as this story shows: • "Our intelligence gathering revealed that we believe there was a large quantity of alcohol being brought in to the province from other provinces …
All That Base Ball Was Really About That Pitcher
Posted by on Sunday, May 8, 2011 in - 3 comments
I indulged in my other odd hobby yesterday. 1860s - 70s base ball. Two words. No gloves. No sliding. The ball springs off the bat with about as much zip as an Edam cheese would. Underhand pitching and bats that are like swinging a 2 x 4 fresh from the lumber yard. I put the thing together with …
Election Night Beer In Canada? Something From Quebec!
Posted by on Monday, May 2, 2011 in - 3 comments
I pulled out a Blanche De Chambly because it was handy. The results look polarized but they are also federalized in that the Quebec separatists have been rejected. Not nationalists... just separatists. And after 7 years of minority governments, well, the Prime Minister for the last five years …
