THE BREWPUBS OF MONTREAL: Benelux (Brasserie Artisanale et Café)
Greetings,
Today we visit another brewpub in Montréal Canada.
Beneleux (Brasserie Artisanale et Café)
245 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal
(514) 543-9750
Mis à jour le 27 juin 2007
Heures d'ouverture: 15h à 3h
Opening hours: 3PM - 3AM
Lux Blonde - 5,0 %
Lux Rousse - 5,5 %
Stout La Marge - 5,0 %
American IPA - 6,4 %
Pale Ale au seigle - 5,3%
Triple d'été - 7,7 %
Durant le Festival de Jazz, CISM 89.3 sera présent tous les soirs au BENELUX. Tirages tous les soirs de billets pour Osheaga, Woodstock en Beauce et Daft Punk. CDs-compil de CISM gratuits! Horaire détaillé en ligne sous peu
http://www.brasseriebenelux.com/
This was the first brewpub we actually had to go looking for. One of the most important things about searching for any address in Montréal is to remember what Avenue divides the East and the West, Boulevard St. Laurent. This is an important thing to know on a hot early summer afternoon. When we found it into just open for business for that day and we were the only ones in the place. It was a cool and refreshing haven, although not air-conditioned.
I can assure you, the following short notes on their wheat beer were truncated not due to the lack of the character of the beer, more directly to my intense thirst. Nevertheless, they read as follows:
Whitt
A thin head of rich foam sits atop this whitt beer. The color is cloudy bright yellow with a slight Bavarian banana presence. The flavor and finishing hops are particular. It is very different from traditional whit styles. The finish is non-lingering.
Figure 2 Beneleux Witt
The brief review allays the fact that it was a damned refreshing beer! I can assure you I had more than one of them.
Once we told the bartender why we were in Montréal, he began to ask us which brewpubs we had gone to. I took out my notebook and began to name the places we were going to go to. He then proceeded to come up with four more. It was the beginning of a very short but beautiful friendship. Of course, beer was not the only topic conversation. Language, religion, politics, and New York City were all discussed, if not at length, certainly with enthusiasm.
The interior of this brewpubs is very high-tech in appearance, with lots of exposed pipes, conduits, wiring and concrete. As it does not have what they call a "patio" the bartender told me that it was most popular in the winter and autumn.
On our next visit, we plan to try the rest of the beers and a good part of the menu.
Cheers!
Peter LaFrance
( Peter.LaFrance@beerbasics.com )
