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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Drawn from all 35 beers in the catalogue.
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.
Across 35 beers in 9 style families, none of Les Brasseurs du Nord's characters carry through the whole range — the mix of styles they brew is the signature here.
Their beers place in the Top 54% of the catalogue on average, across 30 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
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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