To enjoy QC beer, read our Quebec beer guide!
"Beers of the world, unite!"
The UNOB slogan
BEER REVIEWS
Aramis
lager rousse Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Baltic
Porter Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Belle Gueule Rousse beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Biere
d'Hiver John Breese
Blonde d'Achouffe beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Boreale
Blanche wheat beer Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Brune
au Miel John Breese
Cheval Blanc beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Coup de Grisou beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
D'ham Ambree Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
D'Ham Brune beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Dominus Vobiscum Triple John
Breese
Don de Dieu Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Griffon
Extra Pale ale D'arcy Gray
Griffon Rousse beer D'Arcy Gray
and Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Gros
Cochon lager Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Guinness with Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Houblon
Rousse d'Hiver Ashley Cotter-Cairns
IPA du Lievre Ashley Cotter-Cairns
La
Fin du Monde beer Ashley Cotter-Cairns
La
Geuze de Kamouraska Ashley Cotter-Cairns
La Grimousse beer D'Arcy
Gray
La
Vache Folle D'Arcy Gray
Le P'tit Train du Nord beer John
Breese
Light beer review Shannon Wand
Loch Ness beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Logique Bio organic beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
McAuslan Cream ale D'Arcy Gray
Pride beer John Breese
Rousse Forte aux Fruits beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout D'Arcy
Gray
St
Ambroise Pale ale Ashley Cotter-Cairns
St Arnould beer John
Breese
Schoune Ambree beer
Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Schoune
Biere de Noel Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Schoune Reb'Ale beer Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Snoreau Winter ale D'Arcy Gray and
Ashley Cotter-Cairns
Tremblay Lager Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
Unibroue Maudite D'Arcy
Gray
Unibroue Trois Pistoles Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
BREWERY, BAR AND BREWPUB REVIEWS
Shannon
Wand
reviews Brutopia, Montreal
Bring your raincoat, says Shannon,
about Les Trois Brasseurs, Montreal
We begin our Guide to Quebec breweries,
a huge task! Please help if you can...Part one of the Montreal Beer
Scene for visitors, by Steve
LaRue of Utah, is a review of Forquet
Fourchette, the Unibroue bar
Steve LaRue
continues his roundup of the Montreal brewpubs scene with an in-depth Dieu
du Ciel review
Steve LaRue
reviews three Montreal
Brewpubs: Les 3 Brasseurs, Le Saint Bock Brasserie and
L'Amere a Boire
In the final part of his Montreal beer series, Steve LaRue reviews
four Montreal
Brasseurs: Le Cheval Blanc, Benelux, Sgt. Recruiteur and
Brutopia
ARTICLES AND RANTS
Ash
finds the equivalent of Ali Baba's cave in fridge form at the Mondiale
de la Biere Montreal 2007
Shannon Wand
explains the basic difference between ale and lager to her friends
Ashley
Cotter-Cairns enjoys a taste of the finer side of life at Flaveurs
Bieres et Caprices 2007, a high-end beer and food pairing
event in Montreal
GREAT BEER
STORE! Supermarche
Rahman, Plateau de Montreal
GREAT BEER STORE!
Metro
Joanette, Verdun, Montreal
VIDEO CONTENT
Unibroue
Selection Pack 2007
Become
a Webmaster with our SuperHero video guide!
Quebec
beer tasting night
La
Fin du Monde beer
Aramis
lager rousse
Schoune
Biere de Noel
Houblon
Rousse d'Hiver
Snoreau
winter ale
IPA du Lievre
ABOUT THE CANADA (QUEBEC) DELEGATES
Quebec beer guide
Shannon Wand, our first Beer Delegate for Quebec and our very own Bond girl...
...D'Arcy Gray does weird tricks with oranges, but also likes his beer...
...John Breese chose his girlfriend because she lives close to a depanneur with a super beer selection...
...all assisted on the Quebec beer guide by none other than Secretary-General Ashley "yes, I'm male" Cotter-Cairns.
Our Quebec beer guide recently doubled in size!
Our first ever application for Quebec beer guide Delegate status came from a girl and... shock horror! She applied for a Canadian position!
Shannon harbours secret fantasies of being a double agent spy type, which revs our engine to the redline.
After all, with a pedigree which includes Mata Hari and dozens of Bond girls, what man can resist a lady with a gun, a tracking device and endless hidden zippers holding her skimpy outfit together?
After many months with Shannon alone at the helm, we decided to open a couple more positions in our Quebec beer guide to help us cope with the huge number of QC-brewed beers out there.
We were delighted with the quality of the applicants!
First up is D'Arcy Gray. As you can see, he enjoys playing tricks with oranges and wearing funny hats.
In Ireland, they'd march in his honour while being pelted with rotten fruit from "the other team", but in Quebec we think this kind of behaviour is pretty normal.
Joining the Quebec beer guide at the same time is John Breese, a truly dedicated beer man.
So dedicated, in fact, that he chose his current girlfriend simply because she lives close to a depanneur with a beer selection of more than 150 varieties, many of them brewed in Quebec. (We're kidding. I'm sure she has other fantastic qualities too.)
Meanwhile, holding the Quebec beer guide together back at UNOB Headquarters is Ashley Cotter-Cairns.
Not content with being Secretary-General of the world's fastest-growing Beer organisation, he's editor of the website and writes beer content for brews from wherever he can get them.
With the help of his three Quebec beer guide Delegates, Ash is currently attempting to review every beer available in Quebec. Once he's completed that mission, who knows what he'll dream up next?
The Delegate application speeches follow. (Ash hired himself without an interview. Nepotism, eh?)
Shannon's proposal speech:
The hole-in-the-wall curry house with a
kick-ass draught selection; the bike tour of Montreal ending at the St.
Ambroise brewery; my friend Dave and his wild cognac flavoured brew
finds; all this and more is what I have to offer.
It is highly sought-after information, and I have it all right here at the tip of my tongue; the click of my keyboard; the wave of my pen.
More importantly, it's yours for the paltry sum of one laminated UNOB Beer Delegate card. It's a good deal.
D'Arcy's proposal speech:
I like beer
It makes me a jolly good fellow
I like beer
It helps me unwind,
And sometimes it makes me feel mellow
(cue the backup singers: "makes him mellow")
Whiskey's too rough
Champagne
costs too much
And vodka puts my mouth in gear
But this little refrain, will help me explain
As a mater of fact I LIKE BEER.
I'm in Montreal, but I'm a performer and get to travel a lot, especially to weird places like Fredericton, NB and Halifax, NS. I could do travelling beer reviews as well.
I wish I could remember though, was it Mac Davis or the Irish Rovers who sang that song? Hmm...
John's proposal speech:
Quebec is hands-down the Canadian capital of hedonism, a fact proven by the quality found in the artisanal fare coming out of La Belle Province.
You have microbrewers and pubs cranking out new varieties of beer on a near daily basis. Add to that experience the staggering amounts of wines, cheeses and chocolates produced in the province to enjoy all these beers with.
As a devout enthusiast of beer, I
volunteer
to subject myself
to vast quantities of testing for the sake of the greater good of the
Quebec beer guide. The
degree of
my selflessness amazes even myself sometimes...
Want to help build the Quebec beer guide, or volunteer for another territory?
Have a look at our Beer Delegate page for details and an application form.
Submit a review to our Quebec beer guide!
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