Le Mondial Preliminary List

Super excited to try all the Brazilian beers, especially after Stephen Beaumont talked them up so much this year.

 

Some of the French stuff looks surprisingly good! Not that France can't make good beer, just that I tend to expect the more traditional from them. I'm anxious to get my hands on the Italian brews too...

 

Likewise. Going to be my first venture out to this event.

 

I'll be there just on the Sunday aft

 

Nice list. I had a few of the Brazil beers last year. Nothing earthshaking but it is good to see some enthusiasm for beer in another part of the World.

 

Any idea when the full list comes out?

 

Thanks!

 

That list looks great. I'll have no problem finding a ton of new beer to try. I'm going to have to break out the highlighter and plan it out a bit, think about pacing, or thise could be some really early days, if you know what I mean.

 

I don't really understand why any brewery would come here when their products can't be sold in the province/country. How is this promotional for them?

 

I really don't get this either. If the SAQ didn't suck so badly, maybe they'd try selling some more types of beer, or have seasonal releases or something; however, this is clearly not the case. There is no real reason to come here.

 

It's not a festival to get people to know good beer. It's more of an attraction to make as much money as possible.

 

Right on! This is why less and less Québec brewery attend it, few of them told me how expensive it is to be part of it

 

Yes, and it doesn't help that numerous breweries were fined hundreds/thousands of dollars for exceeding their allotted space last year (no warning, just a fine at the end; Unibroue got fined something over 1000$); also, the breweries don't get paid until several months after the event, as the organizers go on vacation immediately afterwards; lastly, the Mondial takes a huge cut of the profit.

 

I'm glad that there is already a thread for this event. Can anyone give me any solid suggestions of what not to miss? or is it kind of a crap shoot? I'm going to do a bit of homework but are there any DO NOT MISS beers?

I'm going to Montreal for the first time for my bachelor party any suggestions of solid brew pubs/beers to buy for the voyage back to Ontarible?

 

Dieu du Ciel is a classic and in no particular order, La Succursale, Cheval Blanc, Benelux, Brouhaha and Vices et Versa are all great beer places. As for beer store you can hit Peluso, you'll find everything you need in one place.