Montréal

A world-benchmark brewery that still runs its original Montreal brewpub. Péché Mortel — an imperial coffee stout brewed with fair-trade coffee — became a global reference point for the style long…

The most useful correction in this archive is also the simplest: John Molson never brewed Molson Canadian. The brewery dates to 1786; the flagship launched in 1959, a hundred and seventy-three years…

Independent brewing in Amos since 1999, deep in Abitibi. Staying independent is easier when you are seven hours from the nearest big market, and much harder to fund.

One of the Plateau's originals — Cascadian darks and brown ales from before the hazy era.

The most cautionary story in Canadian brewing, and it took eight weeks. Dow was Quebec's dominant beer for most of two centuries when, in 1966, Quebec City hospitals began admitting middle-aged men —…

Known for highly sophisticated, food-friendly beers and an extensive foeder-aged sour program in the heart of Montreal.

One of the fourteen breweries fused into National Breweries in 1909, per City of Montréal heritage records — and one of the two, with Dawes, that a McGill corporate history names as still operating…

Dated to 1913 by local historical research and held at reduced confidence, because that is the only anchor there is. Its ending is far better documented than its beginning: Quebec heritage records…

One of the microbreweries that appeared in Quebec's 1987 wave — the province's first real craft generation, and years ahead of most of Canada. AMBQ records GMT as one of three breweries bought up to…

The Dow name standing alone — and a date this archive will not pretend is settled. The Quebec cultural-heritage register puts the change to William Dow & Co. at 1841; the Dictionary of Canadian…

Current official site still operates Brasseur de Montréal's Griffintown microbrewery-restaurant/brand. July 2026 reporting says Molson Coors will move beer production outside the City of Montréal…

Quebec Pass 83. Current official WILLS site identifies the Mile-Ex Montréal brewery/bar and publishes a live beer catalogue. Contemporary Montréal reporting states WILLS began brewing in July 2023.

Quebec Pass 83. Brutopia's current official site confirms an active downtown Montréal brewpub at 1219 rue Crescent and states it opened in early 1997, with beer still freshly brewed on premises.

A fiercely independent neighborhood staple in Montreal, championing unfiltered, low-intervention lagers and traditional cask ales.

Tart, fruited and accessible, in a Montreal neighbourhood rather than a destination district. Neighbourhood breweries keep scenes alive between the famous ones.

Montreal brewing since 1986, back when a Quebec brewpub was a genuinely strange idea.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site and Bonjour Québec confirm Le Saint-Bock at 1749 rue Saint-Denis. Bonjour Québec states the brasserie artisanale has been established in the Quartier latin since…

Montreal’s heavily hyped, heavy-metal beer temple. Your primary destination for massive barrel-aged stouts and dry-hopped IPAs.

Official site identifies Messorem as an industrial microbrewery and tasting-room project at 2233 rue Pitt, Montréal, specializing in IPAs, sour beers and barrel-aged beers. Founding year remains…

Where the Dawes name starts. City of Montréal heritage records have Thomas Andrew Dawes working at Joseph Chapman's Montréal brewery from about 1817 and taking over the enterprise when Chapman died…

The beginning of Dow, and of Montréal brewing outside Molson's. Thomas Dunn founded at La Prairie in 1790 and moved the enterprise to Montréal by 1808, acquiring brewery lands on Notre-Dame Street —…

Gottlieb Reinhardt's brewery, running from 1852 and one of the fourteen swept into the National Breweries consolidation of 1909. The Reinhardt name appears twice in this archive and not by accident:…

Built in 1909 on rue Saint-Maurice — the same year National Breweries consolidated the city's trade — and then used by somebody else. Dawes moved its brewing into these installations in 1922 and…

Five and a half years, documented to the day. The Quebec RACJ brewer-permit register records an artisanal permit issued on 26 June 1994 and revoked on 14 December 1999, and that is the entire…

370 rue Guy, unit G9 — a brewery small enough that the permit register records which room it occupied. Issued 26 June 2014, revoked 30 April 2019: just under five years. The specificity is the point.…

Pizza and beer, brewed on the premises, from 25 May 2005 to 8 May 2009 on an artisanal brewer's permit. Four years almost to the day. The name is the entire pitch, and the archive holds nothing…

Eighteen years on the permit register, from 30 August 2002 to 14 January 2021, at 6729 avenue de l'Esplanade — comfortably the longest-lived of Montréal's permit-documented modern brewers in this…

At 4240 boulevard Saint-Laurent, on a brewer's permit running from 27 November 1997 to 20 March 2000 — two years and four months. This record was itself lost and later restored, recovered in a…

Lothar Reinhardt Jr. opened this in 1900 as a Montréal operation competing directly with G. Reinhardt & Sons, which had been brewing in the city since 1852. Nine years of rival Reinhardts, and then…

Modern lagers on the Main, in a city that spent twenty years insisting lager was the enemy.

Fruited sours and stouts on the far east end of Mont-Royal, past where the tourists turn back.

Microbrasserie Noire et Blanche brasse à Saint-Eustache, au Québec. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A mythic Saint-Denis brewpub that poured Czech and central European styles when nobody else in Montreal would. Closed in 2023 as the neighbourhood and its leases changed around it.

Quebec Pass 83. Quebec RACJ records document Au Maître Brasseur Inc. at 4528 rue Louis-B.-Mayer, Laval, with brewer permit dates 2006-07-06 to 2012-05-18.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site confirms Beauregard Brasserie Distillerie at 2253 rue Dandurand, Montréal, with brewery pickup/tasting hours. Tourisme Montréal describes it as a specialist in…

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site identifies L'Amère à Boire as a Montréal brewpub at 2049 rue Saint-Denis and states the establishment has existed since 1996, with beers brewed on site. Pass 78…

Quebec Pass 83. Current RegistreMicro lists Brasserie Mosaiek at 1401 rue Legendre Ouest, Montréal, under brewer permit BR309. The registry identifies it as a microbrewery with no on-site service.…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ confirms the active brewery and front-of-brewery bar at 109 rue de Louvain Ouest, Montréal. Founding year remains UNKNOWN.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site confirms Brouhaha in Ahuntsic at 10295 avenue Papineau and states it has been a Montréal beer institution since 2008. RegistreMicro lists the location as an…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ states Dispensaire has been open since May 2018 and had reached its 100th brew with more than 20 recipes by early 2020.

Quebec Pass 83. Current RegistreMicro lists Espace Amalgame at 5691 boulevard Saint-Laurent as a Montréal microbrewery associated with L'INCONNUE, artisanal beer producer permit AB163. Counted as one…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ confirms EtOH as the Villeray microbrewery at 8100 Saint-Denis, Montréal. Its project began with a Quebec-microbrewery pub phase in 2013 before adding on-site brewing; an exact…

Quebec Pass 83. Les Trois Mousquetaires states it was founded in June 2004 after acquiring Express-Broue, then a small brewery in Saint-Eustache. Exact opening/closure dates UNKNOWN.

Quebec Pass 83. Current AMBQ and HELM web presence confirm an active Mile-End brewpub at 273 avenue Bernard Ouest with beer brewed in-house. Founding year remains UNKNOWN pending stronger direct…

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site confirms L'Espace Public as a Montréal microbrewery with a brewpub at 3632 Ontario Est and production plant at 2287 avenue Letourneux. Current web presence and…

Quebec Pass 83. Current RegistreMicro lists La Brasserie Labatt under brewer permit BR001 at 50 avenue Labatt, Montréal. This is a current brewer/production permit identity, distinct from…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ's current member directory confirms La Brasserie San-Ô Saké as an active Quebec producer. It is retained as a brewing entity because the association includes it among member…

Quebec Pass 83. Quebec RACJ brewer-permit records document La Broue Chope Inc. at 46 boulevard Industriel, Saint-Eustache, with permit dates 1998-06-25 to 2001-12-03.

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ's current member directory confirms La Chope Angus as an active Quebec brewery. Current local listings place it in Montréal's Angus/Rosemont area. Founding year remains UNKNOWN.

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ's current member directory confirms La Cie Vilandré as an active Quebec brewery. Founding year remains UNKNOWN pending stronger brewery-specific historical evidence.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site identifies La Succursale as a Montréal craft brewery/brewpub at 3188 rue Masson in Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, with house beer and current service. Founding year…

Quebec Pass 83. Current Tourisme Montréal lists Les Sans-Taverne at 1900 rue Le Ber in Pointe-Saint-Charles as a cooperative craft brewery. Its current cooperative site remains active. Founding year…

Quebec Pass 83. Current RegistreMicro lists LES TROIS BRASSEURS under brewer permit BR083 at 1405 rue Louvain Ouest with the associated microbrewery Les 3 brasseurs - Louvain. Preserved as one…

Quebec Pass 83. MaBrasserie was founded as a Montréal brewing cooperative in 2015. Current 2025 reporting documents a revival under new ownership after a late-2023 shutdown, and the Rosemont venue…

Quebec Pass 83. Current official site confirms MELLÖN Brasserie at 7141 rue Saint-André in Montréal with a live beer menu and current opening hours. Tourisme Montréal also lists it as an active…

Quebec Pass 83. Memento's current official site explicitly identifies it as a Montréal microbrewery and says its in-house team brews its beers. Tourisme Montréal independently confirms beers freshly…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ confirms the active Hochelaga brewpub/taproom at 3135 rue Hochelaga, Montréal, centered on craft beer and heavy music. Founding year remains UNKNOWN.

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ confirms the active Saint-Eustache microbrewery created by the fourth generation of the Constantin family, with beers named for family pioneers. Founding year remains UNKNOWN.

Quebec Pass 83. Current Tourisme Montréal identifies Réservoir at 9 avenue Duluth Est as a Plateau brewpub with beers brewed on site. Current 2026 venue evidence also confirms operation. Founding…

Quebec Pass 83. Current Saint-Houblon official site lists Montréal locations and states the business began in 2015. Its official beer pages and current tourism listings identify it as a…