The second beercast/podcast on beer/Zekecast on beer, whatever. This time I’m drinking La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout from the Microbrasserie Charlevoix. Again there isn’t an awful lot about it on the internet.
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La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (close up of the head)
I bought mine at Epicerie Unique, 4109 Saint Laurent, in Montreal. Some other links you might like are Denis Reid, the artist who designed the label. The Wikipedia definition of Imperial stout. And then I would like to thank Brad Slyde for the background music.
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (front label)
The Cole’s notes version: It’s a really nice beer, the taste, smell and look do not go together as you would expect. But all of them are good. More designed to be drunk in the woods or wood cabin during the winter, it is nonetheless mighty tasty at the tail end of the summer. Black as night with 9% alcohol by volume, drink it slowly.
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (back label)La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (in the glass)
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Installation view of Sylvain Bouthillette’s 15 Hertz at Galerie Trois PointsFlavie Boucher’s entry in L’Art du Style at Les Ailes de la ModeView of the New Sculpture Garden at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Last week I went to see a performance of the Cirque Éloize‘s iD. If you would like to hear what I thought about it, listen here:
Cirque Éloize’s iD
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First off, props need to be given to all the performers: Ignacio Adar, Lisa Eckert, Nicolas Fortin, Jesse Huygh, Xuan Le, Nadia Lumley, Justine Méthé-Crozat, Baptiste Montassier, Samuel ‘Sam Sung’ Nadai, Thibaut Philippe, Jeremy Saint-Jean, Ryan Shinji Murray, Emi Vauthey, Kone Thong Vongpraseuth. I also have to thank Two Zombies Later for all the background music. Then during the podcast I mention 21 Jump Street
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Over the weekend I tried a new beer, Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset (so new in fact, that in this day and age, I can’t find a single useful link anywhere for either of them). I ended up recording my thoughts about it. Call it the Zekecast, Zeke’s Montreal Beer Podcast, a beercast or whatever.
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In a nutshell, it’s a very reasonable and nice beer made better by it being made locally. Bright yellow, 5% abv, it comes in thin 500ml brown bottles with a label that evokes baseball uniforms. It has strong hay overtones with a nice aftertaste, I also was able to taste and smell at first some celery then a vague citrus scent and flavor (somewhere in between lemon and grapefruit) and a slight hint of something approaching licorice. However the lasting image and memory is of a late summer pasture. It’s much better when drunk extremely cold.
A bottle of Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
For those who are interested, the players on the Expos who wore the number 7 were Bobby Wine (1969 – 1972), Bob Stinson (1973 – 1974), Tony Bernazard (1979), Ron LeFlore (1980), Hubie Brooks (1985 – 1989), Lou Frazier (1993 – 95), F.P. Santangelo (1996 – 1998), Orlando Merced (1999), Todd Zeile (2003) and Tony Batista (2004). But as I point out Alain McKenna is probably wrong in thinking that there is any link to baseball, as here in Montreal the name will be pronounced “broh-kuhn set.” As the number seven is pronounced “set” in French. So it is much more likely that if there is any sports connection it is to tennis. And it only occurred to me now, that not only did he not write anything substantial about the beer, but what little he did write, he got wrong, implying that it is a Lager, when in fact it is an Ale.
The label for Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
A bottle of Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
A bottle of Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
The label for Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
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Last month Eloi Desjardins from Un show de mot’arts and I got together to discuss art in Montreal in the summer. We were in Joliette to see the Jacques Hurtubise exhibit there (more on it later) but the conversation quickly got focused on the Ryoji Ikeda exhibit at DHC/Art.
The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 4
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Last week Eloi Desjardins of Un show de mot’arts, stopped by La Cabane and we had a conversation about the Quebecois art media, or lack thereof. Eloi wanted to know where and how to find what little was written, and then the conversation veered towards non-traditional outlets, the theories behind what and how we write and if it is possible to make money writing about Quebecois art. It’s approximately the 672nd podcast I have done (533 Audio and 139 video). But is episode 1 of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast.
Since then, we have had a discussion, and it looks like this will be a regular feature on both of our websites, although not necessarily identical, as the idea is for each of us to take the raw audio file and edit it how we see fit. Next time, we’re going to do it in a much, much quieter place, and I think the discussion will be centered around the Wesselmann and Ikeda exhibits currently on view.
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Earlier this month I was a guest on the CBC Montreal radio show Cinq à Six with Pierre Landry. We discussed the opening of the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and their new hanging of Quebec and Canadian Art.
Last week I was a guest on the Barry Morgan show on CJAD to talk about hamburgers. If you missed it, you can hear it here.
Le Jolifou, 1840 Rue Beaubien Est Pataterie Chez Philippe, 1877 rue Amherst Mr. Steer, 1198 rue Ste-Catherine O Brasserie T!, 1425 Rue Jeanne-Mance Lawrence, 5201 boul. St-Laurent Bagel’s etc., 4320 boul. St-Laurent Helm, 273 rue Bernard Ouest
Laura suggested the Burger Bar, 1465 rue Crescent
Tim suggested The Burger Bistro on Saint Jacques
Ryk suggested Tous les Jours, 1689 Avenue du Mont-Royal Est & Nouveau Palais, 281 Rue Bernard Ouest
Wayne suggested Dilallo, 2523 rue Notre-Dame O & Bun’s Hamburger House, 3673, boul Saint-Laurent
Barry suggested Decarie Hot Dog, 953 boulevard Décarie
Michael suggested Moe’s (aka Casse Croute du Coin), 2214 Maisonneuve West
Michael suggested Mama’s, 1805 boul. O’Brien & Paulo et Suzanne, 5501 boul. Gouin Ouest
Christine suggested La Belle Province
George suggested Burger de Ville, 59 Westminster N
