Les Brasseurs du Nord
Les Brasseurs du Nord has brewed under the Boréale name in the Laurentians north of Montreal since 1987, when Laura Urtnowski and Bernard Morin turned a student home-brewing sideline into a commercial brewery. The house released Quebec's first red ale in 1988 and moved from Saint-Jérôme to its present Blainville site in 1994. The Fonds de solidarité FTQ took majority ownership in 2013. The range covers the classics, the Artisan series, alcohol-free beers and a rotating Épisode programme, with taprooms in Blainville and Montreal.
Beers by Les Brasseurs du Nord
35 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Les Brasseurs du Nord brew a broad range across 9 style families.
Across these 35 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Boréale Dorée
Their beers place in the Top 56% of the catalogue on average, across 30 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Les Brasseurs du Nord
Les Brasseurs du Nord has brewed under the Boréale name in the Laurentians north of Montreal since 1987, when Laura Urtnowski and Bernard Morin turned a student home-brewing sideline into a commercial brewery. The house released Quebec's first red ale in 1988 and moved from Saint-Jérôme to its present Blainville site in 1994. The Fonds de solidarité FTQ took majority ownership in 2013. The range covers the classics, the Artisan series, alcohol-free beers and a rotating Épisode programme, with taprooms in Blainville and Montreal.
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