Seen Through a Glass: Mondial

Monday, June 1, 2009

Mondial

I leave for Montreal tomorrow morning, judging and presenting a seminar (on what else?) at the Mondial de la Biere. Looking forward to a pub crawl tomorrow and Thursday (the latter of which includes Steve Beaumont's threat to make sure I'm not at my best for my 9:15 AM presentation on Friday), the judging (always like that), wonderful weather, new beers, great food, and -- speaking of that -- stopping in Plattsburgh for michigans on the way up and back. I'll do what I can about blogging. When I'm not drinking, walking, or sleeping. Au revoir!

6 comments:

JC said...: Hey Lew,

I'm planning a trip to Montreal around Labor Day. What are some of your must-stop places for local brews?

Have fun!; June 1, 2009 11:31 PM
Lew Bryson said...: Easy call: Dieu du Ciel and Cheval Blanc.; June 1, 2009 11:33 PM
Rich said...: It must be tough to go drinking and pass it off as "work". I wish I could tell my wife..."Hey, I gotta go to work, I'll be at Moe's"

*jealous*; June 2, 2009 7:24 AM
Steven said...: Got your new, special ID to cross back into the 'States?

Your papers Mr. Bryson.; June 2, 2009 7:01 AM
Jonny said...: I just spent some time in Toronto, myself, which also seems to have a decent beer scene. But, Montreal seems to have a kicking one. Looking forward to reading about it.; June 2, 2009 6:33 AM
helena said...: I was forever fascinated by the beer list @ Dieu du Ciel so got very excited when it finally started to appear bottled here in NJ - but both Rosée dHibiscus and Route Des Épices were somewhat disappointing - beers sounded better than they tasted...
Lew, have you tried them on tap?; June 2, 2009 10:34 AM

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Talk to Me About Booze

Are the goat farmers “targeting” the Italian market? Bet your ass they are: That’s where people buy goat meat.
Beer IS broad, it encompasses many things. To single out one beer type as "not really beer" is an act of snobbery, or ignorance.
Beer doesn't quench my thirst? That's okay, I just wanted to distract it for a while.
Bock, Maibock, Doppelbock, Weizenbock: I love 'em all. I am catholic in my bockaphilia.
Bring me your hoppiest beer. I'll drink it, and say "Hmmm, hoppy. Not bad."
Ever wonder why you drink the beer you drink?
Good God, MUST we be hit over the head by a beer to like it? Are we cartoon cavewomen??
I like getting hit over the head by a beer occasionally. But I do not think that such beers are necessarily superior by virtue of their power. I think they are interesting, much like a hurricane happening somewhere else.
I said that back in 1991, maybe 1992. I was malty when malty wasn't cool.
I was tired, I was battling intestinal problems, and I was missing my wife, but the beer blew that all away in one swallow. Here was a beer that carried its "complexity" in its soul, there displayed for anyone with the eyes to see.
In its most beautiful form, the buzz is a warm expansive feeling that puts you right in the zone … what zone, it doesn’t really matter, but you’re so damned centered in it you won’t want to leave.
Malt liquor invites hypocrisy by being so honest.
Oh look, a west coaster making fun of my capacity for hops. How droll. How original.
Pal, you pay enough already for the sin of working at your annoying job. You do NOT have to pay more to have a beer when that 8-hour shift in hell is over.
Should we stop making craft beers because we don't have a set of terminology that adequately describes all of them? Of course not, the language needs to catch up with the reality.
Specific Gravity only captures one narrow aspect of "MALTY," just as IBUs only capture one narrow aspect of "HOPPY." Neither addresses FLAVOR. Jon Binkley, 5/27/05
There is nothing more seductive than the exotic look of that cloudy nectar sitting perkily foam-capped in the buxom pipe of a weizen glass; beer in a WonderBra.
They buy cheap booze for the same reasons any of us buy anything: because we want it and can afford it.
They have some study that for X increase in beer taxes, there is a decrease in underage drinking of Y. They plug in new numbers all the time, but X is always a high number, and Y is always a nebulous one.
Vodka has...that eye-opening zing! that wrinkles the skin in your nose and makes you realize that this stuff is gonna clean the crap out of your pipes and let you live forever – at least for a while, just today.
When it comes to beer, Rodney King is right: we can all get along.
When people toss aside a beer as "not being true to style" because it's not "toasty," and never really say what they mean by "toasty," well, that I have a problem with.