
MONTREAL, CANADA
Just off St. Laurent on Duluth, small smoke-filled 100-capacity brick-exterior brewpub,
RESERVOIR, gets busy with 5 o’clock crowd. Visited April ’05, main bar area included open backside ovens offering calamari, fromage, salads, and oysters, plus table seating near front window. Brew tanks, an extra bar, and more seating are available upstairs.
On tap were three easy plowing beers and four more exquisite choices. Soft-fizzed lemon-candied grapefruit-soured
Blonde, delicately buttered floral-perfumed lemon-orange-faded hefeweizen-styled
Ambree De Ble and soapy light-spiced stone-fruited lemongrass-hinted
Blanche suited light-bodied drinkers.
More engaging fare included terrific Belgian-styled raisin-prune-soured cherry-sweet banana-bruised fig-juiced
Triple, piney malt-smoked hop-charred
Bitter and lactic coffee-roasted hazelnut-toasted soft-tongued stout-styled
Noire.
Mild hop-spiced, lemony grapefruit-embittered, peach-pitted
Pale Ale was both light-bodied and distinguished.
www.brasseriereservoir.ca