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Last night I led a tasting and made a presentation on Rye Whiskey for Whisky Montreal. If you’d like a copy, it is available here.
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Category Archives: Whiskey
Whisky Montreal’s Soirée Canadienne
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Back in May, I gave a presentation on Canadian Whiskies. We tasted Canadian Club 20 Year Old, Wiser’s 18 Year Old, Crown Royal Cask 16 and, Danfield’s 21 Year Old. I filmed most of it. If you’d like to download it, feel free.
Whisky Montreal’s Soirée Canadienne
Episode 611 (65:02)
h.264 386MB, Ogg Video 283MB, MPEG2-TS 6.1GB, BitTorrent.
Five Whiskeys from the Buffalo Trace Distillery (my presentation on bourbons for Whisky Montreal)
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Last month I gave a presentation as part of a whiskey tasting that the club Whisky Montreal hosted at the Masonic Memorial Temple. We tasted Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s Special Reserve, Hancock’s Reserve and Rock Hill Farms.
Be forewarned, it is long, and the sound isn’t so great because of the massive echo in the lobby of the temple, which is where we were located. If you would like a copy of my notes or the handout, click on the appropriate link.
Submitted without comment
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I recently had these (short) conversations on Twitter:
Wines below $15 disappearing from SAQ http://t.co/Ft6BRbtxR6
— Spike_Stockdale (@spike_stockdale) March 28, 2013
Howdy! @spike_stockdale According to this http://t.co/QbhsyOsRcy there are 954 wines <$15. A 9% diff if his 2009 numbers are right.
— Chris 'Zeke' Hand (@ZekeDotCom) March 29, 2013
@ZekeDotCom maybe you are counting 1/2 bottles in that number.
— Spike_Stockdale (@spike_stockdale) March 29, 2013
Howdy! @spike_stockdale I'm just pulling it from the SAQ database. I wrote to M. Couture. If he replies, I'll let you know.
— Chris 'Zeke' Hand (@ZekeDotCom) March 29, 2013
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SAQ continues to gouge Quebec consumers by slowly killing off wines under $15 (in FR) http://t.co/mDZWhVmBp1 (Reason 2172 why #LCBO > SAQ)
— chow with chow (@chowwithchow) March 28, 2013
Howdy! @chowwithchow Actually his numbers don't correspond with the SAQ's database in any fashion. http://t.co/5JKGJ2GBfJ
— Montreal Burgers (@MontrealBurgers) March 29, 2013
@montrealburgers Disconcerting pricing trend nonetheless. Link to the pricing spreadsheet provided to restaurateurs http://t.co/Z7UT4QvwQC
— chow with chow (@chowwithchow) April 1, 2013
Which led to this conversation, by email:
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| Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand <zeke@zeke.com> | Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM | |
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| Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand <zeke@zeke.com> | Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:03 PM | |
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| Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand <zeke@zeke.com> | Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:17 PM | |
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| Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand <zeke@zeke.com> | Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM | |
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I’m not quite certain what to make of it, although now, there are 945 wines available at the SAQ that are under $15. Of those 774 are in 750ml containers.
April 2013 Montreal Restaurant List
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I uploaded a new Montreal Restaurant List. Some of the places I visited that made it over to the Done and Worth Going Back side of the page are: Chez Ma Tante, Plâts De Pates Hong Mère, Casa Minhota, Gibeau Orange Julep, Prohibition, Les Temps Nouveaux and La Tornade.
As per normal, a simple comparison to the previous list will let you know which restaurants didn’t make the cut.
Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. As per usual if you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, please feel free to email me at zeke@zeke.com. And if anyone is interested, the previous versions have been downloaded more than 4,700 times
The February 2013 Montreal Restaurant List
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There’s a new and updated Montreal restaurant list available. New to the Done and Worth Going Back side are Burgundy Lion, La Drinkerie Ste.Cunégonde, l’Espace Public, Evoo, Nacho Libre, Piesanna, Le Seingalt and La Succursale. Although most were added to the Good Places to Drink section. It seems that I have figured out how to handle the cold…
I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which restaurants are no longer on the list.
Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. As per usual if you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, please feel free to email me at zeke@zeke.com. And if anyone is interested, the previous versions have been downloaded more than 3,900 times.
Montreal Restaurant List (January 2013 version)
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I’ve updated the Montreal Restaurant List. L’Arrivage, Cocagne, Hotel Herman, Le Renard, La Soupiere made it from the To Try side to the Done and Worth Going Back side. I also added a bunch of Sandwich places (I guess I’m trying to do lunch more often) along with Inferno, Manger Avec Eric, Café Mardi Gras, Rodizio Brasil and Santa Barbara, among others.
I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which restaurants are no longer on the list.
Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. As per usual if you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, please feel free to email me at zeke@zeke.com. And if anyone is interested, the previous versions have been downloaded almost 3,800 times.
The Montreal Restaurant List, November version
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I’ve updated the Montreal Restaurant List. A couple of places have been taken off the “to try” side, some to disappear forever some to make to the “done and worth going back side.” And there have been some additions to the “to try” side as well. I’ve also added a list of “Must Eat” dishes at some iconic restaurants in town.
Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. As per usual if you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, please feel free to email me at zeke@zeke.com. And if anyone is interested, the previous versions have been downloaded more than 2,300 times.
The October (ok, late September) Restaurant List is up
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It’s been a while. We jump from version 3.01 to 3.04. Numerous changes all over the place, both on the places to try side and on the worthwhile side. On top of that I also did some changes to the formatting. Hopefully, it will make it easier to read. Zeke’s October Montreal Restaurant List.
Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. And if anybody is interested the list has been downloaded about 830 times, so far.
Interview with High West’s David Perkins
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Believe it or not, you can actually get some of High West’s products here in Quebec. Specifically Rendezvous and Silver Western Oat. Yossi over at JewMalt interviewed High West proprietor and distiller David Perkins.
It looks like I’m going to have to try and get myself to Utah one of these days…