Beer Stores, where Canada gets its beer.

You look at the menu on the wall, place your order, and it magically appears on this rolling track.

I decided to start off my Canada beer tasting with a bang, and bought some strong Maudite beer made by Unibroue.  I love that graphic.  Looks like the damned rowing through the sky of hell.

D'oh!  I didn't bring a glass.  I usually drank the stuff from my tin camping cup, but if I wanted to see it, it went into the press pot.

This is from the night in Montreal at the bar with Dave and Feli.  I was impressed with how many taps they had, both coming out of the bar, and the ceiling.  They had many local and regional beers on tap.

You could buy beer by the bottle, so this is where I picked up 12 bottles of locally made beer (pictures of that at the end).

This stuff is a Belgian beer that is contract brewed in Canada (I think).  It was fairly cheap and pretty tasty.

More from the same brewery.

After we left Montreal and Quebec City, we spent that one night in NY.  I bought this mixed sampler pack.  Saranac is available in the Twin Cities I think, but I haven't really had that much of it.  It's made in Utica, NY.

Here's the picture you saw before, of the Bell's brewery and the Kraftbrau brewpub.

My sampler.  The beer was pretty solid.  There were a few really good ones, a couple ok, and only one that was not that good.

Kraftbrau bar.

After the sampler and then a glass of their Imperial IPA, we walked across the street and found the Bell's tasting room/bar/restaurant on the back of their brewery.  I kept the night rolling by tasting a couple beers they make for the taps, but do not bottle.  One was "Paddy 'o Furniture" (clever) a "fake Irish ale," and the other was just "Bell's beer," a light pilsner. 

The taps available.

I know you can really read this, but you can see how many beers they had to try, as well as the fact that they sold them in different sized glasses.  I tried a couple of 10 oz glasses because I wanted to try all that I could.

The last beer of the night, their Old Ale, which strangely enough is not an old ale, but a barleywine.

One last shot of the wall.

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