Saguenay, Mauricie, Outaouais & Abitibi

Belgians and blueberry stouts on the shore of Lac-Saint-Jean, where the blueberry is a regional identity rather than an adjunct.

Traditional farmhouse beer at the top of Lac-Saint-Jean, brewing organic on their own grain.

NEIPAs in a gold-mining town, which is a sentence that would have made no sense twenty years ago.

Oak-aged sours and a serious reputation, sold to Molson Coors in 2017. Quebec drinkers took that one personally, and the beer was never the reason why.

An absolute powerhouse of the modern Quebec scene. Travelers willing to brave the line-ups will find arguably the best hazy IPAs in Canada.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official brewery site confirms active Chelsea brewery at 6 rue Douglas with beer brewed on site; RegistreMicro shows current brewer permit BR252. Founding year remains UNKNOWN.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official Mariana site explicitly identifies the operation as Distillerie & Brasserie at 280 rue Saint-Georges, Trois-Rivières, and publishes a current six-beer catalogue.…

Quebec Pass 83. Current RegistreMicro lists Dragon Thaï at 1842 avenue Saint-Marc, Shawinigan, under brewer permit BR311. Contemporary reporting says the first three house beers were released…

In 1815 Ezekiel Hart owned a brewery on rue des Fourneaux — today rue Sainte-Élisabeth — near the Commune. It is held separately from the 1797 Hart brothers complex because the local history…

In 1815 a brewer recorded only as Hardy operated opposite what is now rue Hertel, near Aaron Hart's brewery. The given name is unknown and the operating span is unknown, and both stay that way rather…

The oldest brewery in North America recorded in this archive — seventeen years before Jean Talon's King's Brewery at Québec, forty-three before the Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory brewery, and a…

A brewery, distillery and malting complex begun by the Hart brothers in 1797, with a City of Trois-Rivières archaeology study dating the brewery and distillery occupation to 1797–1821. The record is…

The best-documented ending in the Quebec records, because it went through the courts. Trois-Rivières Numérique places Brasserie J.-N. Spénard Limitée on rue Sainte-Marguerite on plans from 1917 and…

A worker co-operative brewery — Coopérative de travail Les Frères Houblon — at 10180 chemin Sainte-Marguerite, with Quebec RACJ permit dates running from 25 October 2006 to 20 June 2018. Nearly…

A Trois-Rivières branch of a Montréal bistro-brasserie concept, announced in April 2015 and closed in August 2017 after about eighteen months of operation, per L'Hebdo Journal. It ran nine lines of…

Barbe Broue Pub brasse à Amos, au Québec. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Nordic lagers in Abitibi, closer to Ontario than to Montreal and brewing like it.

Gatineau Park's pub, catching everyone coming off the trails on the Quebec side of the capital.

A brouepub on Rue des Forges pouring terroir ales in a city that has been making things since the 1600s.

Rousse au poivre des marais — a red ale seasoned with bog pepper, which is about as Outaouais as beer gets.

Ô Quai des Brasseurs brasse à Grand-Mère, au Québec. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Pie Braque brasse à Jonquière, au Québec. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Quebec Pass 83. Current official brewery site confirms active Gatineau operations at 1015 rue Jacques-Cartier and 920 boulevard Saint-Joseph; RegistreMicro shows current brewer permit BR270. Founding…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ states the brewpub has been open since 1996 at 3160 boulevard des Forges, Trois-Rivières, and identifies it as one of Quebec's earlier microbreweries.

Quebec Pass 83. Current RegistreMicro record shows active brewer permit BR187 at 670 rue Auguste-Mondoux, Gatineau. A 2024 brewery interview states Gallicus celebrated its fifth anniversary in…

Quebec Pass 83. Patrimoine Shawinigan documents an early Shawinigan brewery owned by Gédéon Rousseau and purchased by Louis Chevalier in 1906. It was first on Fifth Street, later moved to avenue…

Quebec Pass 83. Patrimoine Shawinigan documents a second early Shawinigan brewery owned by Victor Levasseur, distinct from the Rousseau/Chevalier brewery, and says it disappeared before the 1970s.…

Quebec Pass 83. Federal government funding records document a 2023 startup project for a microbrewery specializing in craft beer in Amos. Quebec RACJ records show a brewer-permit application dated…

Quebec Pass 83. Current Shawinigan/Tourisme Mauricie sources confirm Broadway Pub as an operating microbrewery/pub in Shawinigan with house-brewed beer. Founding year remains UNKNOWN pending a…

Quebec Pass 83. AMBQ confirms the active brewery and tasting room at 2385 boulevard Thibeau, suite 204, Trois-Rivières. Founding year remains UNKNOWN.