Au Maître Brasseur

No Longer In Business

All bets are off with respect to this brewer. The owner, founder, and , master brewer has left this company and it’s been closed for several months.

I think this place has some potential, it depends on what the owners want to do with it. Its mainly a large room, with wood tables and chair. And the small bar. I went there with my girlfriend, we were the only clients in the place (a Wednesday, 9:30 pm). At the fourth of december 2007, they had about 10 beer on the list, so its quite good. They say they show hockey games on a big screen, so I may come back for that! The problem is the opening hours... they close at 11pm wednesday, thursday and friday and 10pm saturday (why!?!). I suppose they don’t really want to make a big business out of the pub itself, since its completly in the middle of nowhere. Too bad. But i’m definitly going back, since I live 15 mins away.

Établissement visité le vendredi 11 mai vers 12h00. Ambiance: Très grande salle de dégustation. Un petit peu de musique ne ferait pas de tord à l’ambiance. Service: On m’a bien présenté les bières disponible lors de ma visite. Sélection: Lors de mon passage seulement 4 bières étaient disponible. Ce qui est peu compte tenu des nombreuses bières que brasse cet endroit. Possibilité d’acheter la bière pour apporter chez soi. Nourriture: Aucune nourriture sur place, mais on a la possibilité d’apporter son repas (Il y a un Subway pas trop loin). (46e rating d’établissement)

The tasting room of this microbrewery is large and comfortable enough to accomodate a large group (say 50 people?). But this is primarily a micro, so don’t expect any ambiance here. Knowledgeable people will always be on attendance if you drop by (brewer and assistant brewers), so you can easily strike up an interesting conversation. Their beers are available on tap here, and you can buy bottles to go in 6-packs or cases. Their beers are from decent to quite good, and are worth a stop if you are in the area. The problem is, there is absolutely no reason to "drive by" this hidden industrial neighborhood, unless you’re heading for the brewery of course. You’ll find their beers on tap at a few places in downtown Montreal (Vices et Versa, Saint-Bock, Benelux), so if you’re not in Laval’s east end per say, you really don’t need to drive over here. Public transport must be awful to inexistant as well.

Bien qu’on peu boire leur bières à d’autre endroit (Bénélux, Vice & Versa, etc.) mais c’est la chance de rencontré Pascal, le maître brasseur et la meilleur chance de tout boire leur produit (oui ils ont des verres de dégustation). De plus on peu acheter des bouteilles (en six et en 24) et on peu prendre des cours de brassage.