La Distillerie du St-Laurent a démarré ses activités en août 2015, elle fait partie des toutes premières microdistilleries québécoises. Les membres fondateurs, Jean-François Cloutier et Joël Pelletier, ont débuté la production de façon modeste dans un local de la rue Rivard à Rimouski, aidés par leurs familles et amis. Cette année là, le St. Laurent Gin est né ! Un spiritueux unique infusé aux algues laminaires récoltées…
Tout a commencé en 2012 dans la péninsule acadienne, à Petit-Paquetville au Nouveau-Brunswick, avec la création de la Distillerie Fils du Roy par Sébastien et Diane Roy. En 2015, Jonathan Roy, frère de Sébastien et fils de Diane, ouvre une deuxième distillerie sous le même nom au Québec, à Saint-Arsène dans le Bas-St-Laurent. Initialement, l’idée était d’ouvrir une agence de distribution des produits familiaux du Nouveau-Brunswick, mais…
Jean-François Rhéault is like everyone else, he has many passions, and as his professional life began to bore him, he decided to combine some of them : gin and music! Two years ago, during a trip to London, the distillery project was conceived and his idea was founded the following year by visiting a distillery in Kelowna, British Columbia. In July 2019, in collaboration with the promoters…
It is the second oldest artisanal distillery in Quebec in operation, (just after Michel Jodoin), and yet, when we think of Intermiel, this is not what comes directly to mind, but of course a beautiful range of honeys! But let’s go back to sum up the adventure of this company. It began in 1976 when Christian Macle and his wife and Viviane, teachers who arrived from France…
Stadaconé is the adventure of three friends and colleagues who decided to embark on a field completely different from the one they were in, high technology! The founding core is composed of Jean-Pierre Allard, President, Alexandre Thomas, Marketing Director and Jonathan Chrétien, Director of Operations. The name was chosen after finding the location of the distillery in the Limoilou sector of Quebec City, near the Saint-Charles River,…
Although the Cirka distillery was only created in 2014, as you enter, you immediately immerse yourself in the warm universe of red brick buildings from the industrial era, providing an historical effect … in fact, it is located in an industrial sector of Montreal where the first distilleries of the metropolis originated. Above all, this was indeed a dream come true for Paul Cirka, who envisioned bringing…
Champ Libre, born in May 2018 in Mercier, Quebec, is above all a brewery whom also quickly gained success with its beers. However, from the start, this project was going to have a distillery division with a modest production and would be produced in stills consisting of 200 liters. This idea originated by two locals. Alexandre Provost, who worked in the insurance industry and dreamed of owning…
Although officially born in 2015, the Pirate du Nord micro-distillery, its owner-founder, André Trudeau, took the time to mature his project with the launch of his first Bootlegger Botanique # 3 for which we speak of course of juniper, but also of dandelion roots, rosehip and long pepper. The result is not aged in barrels, but “rested” on oak and apple wood. Bootlegger Botanique # 7, the…
As of, December 7, 2019, the Côte des Saints distillery has finally opened its doors to the public for the sale of their first gin production. Availability in sufficient quantities for the province of Quebec will be offered at the SAQ as of February. I mention “finally” because their story started about four years ago with the purchase of the fields for growing barley. More or less,…
La Distillerie Noroi située à Saint-Hyacinthe, fait partie du groupe Station Agro-Biotech, qui englobe sous le même toit Fixit Kombucha, Le Bilboquet microbrasserie, La Brasserie Olten et Littoral tonic québécois. La grande particularité c’est leur système de distillation à froid qui serait unique au monde ! Grâce à un alambic en verre qualifié de type réacteur, ce procédé sous 0°C permet d’évaporer les mélanges sans les chauffer…