Unibroue La Fin Du Monde Beer 750ml

Pros: Great taste, moderate price, high abv
Cons: none

Unibroue is one of my favorite brewers. Based in Quebec Canada, they specialize in distinctive, flavorful Belgian-style stong ales. I’ve enjoyed several of their fresh, popularly priced products, as has my wife. They were acquired recently by the ...

Pros: a fine Belgian style brew from Quebec
Cons: not for everybody

Canadian beers are beginning to suffer from a syndrome similar to the one facing American beers. When you mention Canadian beers most people will think of Molson or LaBatt or the major breweries. This is the same mentality as the one...

Pros: A fine, inexpensive Belgian-style beer
Cons: You might be asked to share it

As Belgian-style breweries in North America go, Unibroue, out of Chambly, Quebec, surely ranks at the top of the list. I know, I know, there are such well-known Belgian-style breweries in the United States as Brewery Ommegang, ...

Pros: very tasty for a high ABV beer; a few of these and you are done
Cons: alcohol taste shines through when it warms

The first time I had ever had Unibroue Brewery's La Fin du Monde was at a bar called Effin Groovin' in Merrick, NY, on Long Island. I was looking at their list of high alcohol by volume beers (ABVs, for short) and asked about one that was 13%, and the ...

Pros: Great alcohol content, triple-fermentation, great wine substitute
Cons: Availability

I traveled north to visit my sister in New York for Labor Day Weekend. After we met in NY, we went on to spend the weekend in a cabin Vermont with some family friends. I recently returned from Scotland and had a taste for both single malt scotch and ...