I'm going to be in Montreal on Friday and was wondering if anyone could suggest a good bottle shop in the St. Laurant / Ste Catherine area. Probably going to head up to DDC at some point as well if there's anything around there or on the way. Thanks!
Epicerie Duluth is a little closer to the Main than Peluso is, has a good selection. But obviously Peluso is the big one.
Depanneur AS is about a three minute walk (according to google maps) from DDC (5191 Bd St Laurent, big blue sign - just walk towards St Laurent from DDC and turn north, your left, when you get to St Laurent, there is a big blue sign on the east, your right, side of the road) and generally has a pretty decent selection of La Castor, DDC, Hopfinstark (Station 7 and Frambroise last weekend), and Trou du Diable, as well as other breweries. The lady working there is usually pretty grumpy (and doesn't take visa, if I recall, just debit and cash), but if your looking to stop somewhere before or after DDC, this is a real easy choice. I generally find this place has a pretty decent representation of what's currently around in the Quebec craft scene. There is Épicerie Unique, which you will have to walk past if walking up St. Laurent to DDC (4109 Bd St Laurent). They had less TTD and Hopfinstark last time I was there, but they did have a couple bottles of bourbon barrel aged Solstice de Hiver (DDC). Both are within walking distance of DDC and generally fine for overwhelming my bottle buying means as a non-Montrealer.
This is kind of unrelated to the question, but more related to the title, the Jean Talon Market has a newish bottleshop that is very nice. I think its been there a while, but maybe they just redesigned, I think its called La Grange de Marche. It has a pretty nice selection with a bright well layed out display. I dont know if they get any rare releases, and its obviously not the same size as Peluso, but I find it to be about 50 cents to 1$ less per bottle than a lot of other places (especially veux-tu une biere) for the same beer.
