Montreal

All this mention of piss-water beers (50, OV ) and no talk about Laurentide??? Mon dieu!!! Can't leave la Belle Province without a few of those.

I will second those on Unibroue's products. My personal fave is Trois Pistoles, though Maudite and la Fin du Monde also rock. Though I generally despise fruit beers, they have one called Ephemere, which comes in many different flavo(u)rs- the only one I care for, and I think it's the bomb, is the sour apple (mainly because tart apples are the only fruits I like).

Been many, many moons since I've been in Montreal, so I have no other recommendations, other than the Montreal Smoked Meat sammiches.

 

Laurentide is/was Molson Canadian. Selling it under that name would never fly - as it were - in La Belle Province.

 

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As a high school senior, my graduation present from my folks was transportation and a week's worth of tickets to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

It was a 15-hour overnight train ride. When I got there, I hailed a cab for my motel. Forty miles later, I was let out of the cab with a $60 bill. I went to my hotel room and found that my tickets were lost.

It was a 15-hour overnight train ride home that night.

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If you go, don't be startled by the atmosphere. It's a dump. You're there for the food.

And it is good. (If you want smoked meat without the dumpy counter, Dunn's works great, right off Ste-Catherine. But Schwartz's is the place you're supposed to go to when you're in town.)