Posts Tagged: Quebec
Montreal Beer Festival
Posted by on Thursday, June 1, 2006 in - 4 comments
No, I'm not there. I don't think Blork is even there, our man in Montreal as he is just back from an Italian excursion. But the 13th Montreal Beer Festival or Mondial de la bière is on now though the 4th of June. • Here is a list of the brews which are available and it is pretty impressive … read more »
IPAs from Sleeman and L'Alchimiste
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2005 in - 9 comments
IPAs (India pale ales) have been a source of perturbation for me ever since I started learning about beer. In my youth – which is to say, up until I was about 40 – I was quite happy to simply drink the stuff (beer) without making any inquiries. Sure, I was one of the first to embrace the …
Three from Saint-Paulin, Quebec
Posted by on Sunday, June 19, 2005 in - 4 comments
I am constantly amazed at the number of small craft beer operations that keep popping up in Quebec, many of them far from the urban centres of Montreal and Quebec City. This is encouraging, as one often associates a taste for craft beer with a more urban sensibility; assuming that country folk are …
Three Whites from Quebec
Posted by on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 in - 4 comments
It's hard to beat a cold white beer on a warm and sunny late afternoon -- the clean, somewhat yeasty flavor and the snow-white lacy head of a good white makes the long day at the office worth the wait. • Here in Quebec, Blanche de Chambly is perhaps the best known of the local white beers, and …
L'Institut de la biére: A Quebec-based website and forum on great beer.
Posted by on Saturday, February 12, 2005 in - leave a comment
National Six-Pack VIII: Raftman, Unibroue, Quebec
Posted by on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 in - 7 comments
You think it is February. Nothing will surprise you in February when you are as many weeks from Yule as you are to spring. Month o' the rut. Then, you try a brew that you have never gotten around to trying and the world is all sunshine and love...or at least has one more good brew to tell folks …
Buying beer in Quebec
Posted by on Friday, November 26, 2004 in - 25 comments
The workers of the liquor stores in Quebec are on strike. In any other place in Canada that would cause a small crisis, but Quebec is distinct in Canada for several reasons, one of which is the retail sales of beer and wine. While spirits can only be purchased at the government-run retail stores …
National Six-Pack III: Labatt 50, Quebec
Posted by on Saturday, October 9, 2004 in - 8 comments
50. portland asked me to. And worst of all, this is actually a case...which I can never remember what they call in Ontario where a case is really a two-four. In Halifax, a case was 12. I don't know what I will do with the other eleven. A slice of lime won't even make it a Molrona as this is from …
National Six-Pack I: St. Ambrose Pale Ale, Quebec
Posted by on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 in - leave a comment
As I walk through this troubled world hunched over starting at my feet I sometimes wonder things. Things like why do the Red Ensign bloggers let me hang out when we don't believe in too much in common. Things like why golf is. Things like why can't Canada make good beer like the British and …
