I love beer. To my mind, there is no other drink anywhere in the world that comes close to matching the sheer pleasure of drinking a good beer. My fascination with beer, however, is about more than a good pint. It’s that beer is endlessly interesting. Part of this has to do with beer’s long history and the importance it has throughout history. Part of it has to do with the wide variety of styles on offer–and the variation that can be found in different beers of the same style. Part of it has to do with that, despite the concentration of more major breweries in fewer corporate hands, that beer is one of the few truly local products available anymore. For me, one of the pleasures of travel is being able to try the local beer.
To that end, this blog will contain pictures of commercially-available beer. It will focus on Quebec beer–I live in Quebec and this is what is most available here–but I’ll take pictures of other beer I can either find imported or that I pick up when I’m out of province. That said, this blog won’t be a repository for obscurities–though there will hopefully be more than a few obscure or otherwise difficult to find beers on here–as even the most everyday, run of the mill beers can be interesting (at least to look at, if not to taste) for people who aren’t familiar with them.
There will be no tasting notes or anything of that sort–I don’t have a developed enough palate to be able to do any justice to such an endeavour. Anybody interested in such a thing should visit RateBeer or BeerAdvocate, as both sites do a far better job of reviewing beer than I could hope to do.
The title of this blog comes from this:
