The first UNOB Quebec beer tasting night was a roaring success.
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Quebec beer tasting night
Quebec beer tasting night:
The cast
Ashley "Two Shirts" Cotter-Cairns
Alex "Very Roughage" Vinetti
Shannon "Bitter Red" Wand
Michael "Girlie Beer" O'Morchoe
Andrea "Fridge Odours" Harris
"Way
too ambitious"
is a fair description of our first Quebec beer night.
We started the evening with 40+ bottles of around 25 different beers stuffed into every orifice of our overworked fridge.
The mission (and five of us chose to accept it) was to try every single one before crashing, or passing, out for the night.
We certainly enjoyed ourselves and made a dent in the stock, but we could only manage to get a dozen reviews on camera.
Still, twelve reviews in one Quebec beer tasting night is not bad going: and I've had a lot of fun reviewing the leftovers ever since!
In hindsight, we fed everybody too well. Bar snacks should have been served all night, instead of a big meal before the board games began.
(Yes, we played Beyond Balderdash too.)
No more room for beer
dented everybody's
enthusiasm... It's hard to get excited about a beer
when what you really
need is five minutes
with a stomach pump!
Editing down over an hour of footage, I ended up with more than ten minutes; so to make it easier to watch, I've split the video review section in two.
A very brief summary of comments made follows: where there's a full review elsewhere on the site (eventually all twelve will be reviewed in full), I've hyperlinked to it.
The beer list
Maudite (Unibroue) 8% abv. Strong,
dark-tasting beer
Chambly Noire (Unibroue) 6.2% abv. Easy
to drink, thin stout
Raftman (Unibroue) 5.5% abv. Unpopular with most
Reb'Ale (Schoune) 6.9%
abv. Sweet, unusual beer
Rousse Forte aux Fruits (La
Barberie) 5% abv. Sweet
and strange
Barbar Honey Pale Ale (Brasseurs RJ) 5% abv. Oversweet
Pale Ale au Cassis (La Barberie) 5% abv. Tart, crisp and delicious
A L'Erable Maple Ale (Schoune) 5% abv. Long maple aftertaste
La Belge (Schoune) 8% abv. Unpopular
Maudite taste-alike
Ephemere Apple (Unibroue) 5% abv. Cider-like
beer
Blanche de Quebec (Schoune) 4.1% abv. Light, lemony 'beer soda'
Rousse Bitter (La Barberie) 5.1% abv. Very bitter, dry red
The video reviews
The video reviews of our Quebec beer tasting night are below. They're hosted on YouTube: all you do is click on the "Play" arrow and they will begin.
If you have any comments, good or bad, about our video reviews, please tell us by writing to Last Orders.
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