Tag Archives: Beer
Brune Belge Forte by Brasseurs du Monde: Review
This surprisingly delicious brew from Brasseurs du Monde, one of my favorite local microbreweries, tastes of honey and malt. Though I tend to go for bitter brews, the sweetness of this beer has enough complexity to prevent it from seeming cloying. It is full flavoured, but I wouldn’t have guessed that it is so strong […]
Review: Flacatoune (brewed by Microbrasserie Charlevoix)
I was drawn to this beer due to its promise to represent a female bootlegger from the 30s. It bills itself as a strong blonde beer. At 7% alcohol, it is stronger than your average brew at 5%, but is not in the realm of beer with a percentage of 8 and up. The flavour […]
Review: L’Infusee (brewed by Brasseurs du Monde)
This white beer, brewed by Brasseurs du Monde, has a wonderful fruitiness and light acidity on account of being flavoured with black and green tea, and also rooibus. Though it’s a white beer, it doesn’t possess the heaviness characteristic of most white beers. Instead, it comes off as light and refreshing. Its alcohol percentage of […]
Review: Brasserie Dieu du Ciel’s Rescousse (to the Rescue)
A local beer whose brewers will donate 66 cents for every six-pack sold to the Fondation de la faune du Quebec? And which boasts this nature-goddess-like figure on the box? How could I resist? Described as an altbier (which is German for ‘old beer’), it is a style of beer brewed using top-fermentation. This rousse […]
Restaurant Review: Bier Markt
Tonight I attended my first ever Concordia Alumni Relations event: ‘an evening of beer tasting and food pairing at Bier Markt’. Though I had never heard of Bier Markt before registering for the event, I have since learned that it is an Ontario-based chain whose Montreal location has been open for a couple of months. […]
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