Sacre Bleu: Part Deux!

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Jun 4, 2008
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Montreal Beer Festival: 28 May – 1 June 2008 No this isn’t part two of a two-part report for which I have forgotten to submit the first installment. I headlined last year’s report “Sacre Bleu!” and just couldn’t resist employing the Hot Shots reference. Far from being Part Deux, this is in fact my third […]

By the bonny, bonny banks of the St. Lawrence…

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Dec 3, 2007
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BeerCaster MrB marches dans la pub L’Isle Noire Named after a Tintin book in which our hero travels to Scotland in search of a legendary ape (no, I am not making this up), l’Ile Noire is a “Scottish” pub in the heart of Montreal. If you’re lucky (or unlucky depending on your point of view), […]

Sacre Bleu! – Montreal Beer Festival 2007

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Jun 19, 2007
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One of the enduring perceptions of North America is that it is a Budweiser-soaked desert when it comes to good beer. This is a tad unfair on our Colonial brethren and certainly not the case in Francophone Canada. Every June, the Mondial de la Biere rolls into Montreal’s Gare Windsor like a hops-laden locomotive, the […]