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Montreal Beer Festival June 3 -7 2009

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efman
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Montreal Beer Festival June 3 -7 2009

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http://festivalmondialbiere.qc.ca/en/fe ... real_2009/

What's it like? It has an impressive list of breweries....and it's freeadmision with a buck a token!!

Can you get tickets online (even though they are free) ? Hate to go all that way to find it full.

I dont have many open weekends this summer. I'd like to take advantage of this one.

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Post by Jon Walker »

There are an abundant amount of threads, both current and from past years, about this festival. Have a search through the topics or keyword search "Mondiale" and you'll have lots of info.
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Post by efman »

Search gives me
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...when I click the links...and there was nothing current (first three pages) when I looked.

EDIT...just saw "Who's going to Mondail" ...didnt know that was the name....I will drink wine tonight as punishment.

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Post by Bobsy »

efman wrote:Search gives me
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You don't have permission to access /board/viewtopic.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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...when I click the links...and there was nothing current (first three pages) when I looked.

EDIT...just saw "Who's going to Mondail" ...didnt know that was the name....I will drink wine tonight as punishment.
Its a quirk of the search system. Try your same search again, but when you click on a thread remove "&highlight=mondial" from the address and you should be able to access it just fine.

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Post by GregClow »

efman wrote:What's it like? It has an impressive list of breweries....and it's freeadmision with a buck a token!!
While the tokens are $1 each, many samples cost more than one token. I believe the website says "samples are between 1 and 5 tokens each", although some rare/expensive beers can go for many more.
efman wrote:Can you get tickets online (even though they are free) ? Hate to go all that way to find it full.
There is no advance reservation system, you just have to show up and take your chances.

It's been 10 years since I was last there, and it's in a new venue now, but my understanding is that it's a pretty large venue. I don't know if it ever "sells out", but I've heard that it can get pretty rammed on the Saturday in particular.
efman wrote:I dont have many open weekends this summer. I'd like to take advantage of this one.
You should go. Even if the festival is too crowded, Montreal is an amazing beer city.

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Post by efman »

SOLD!! Thanks GregClow.

My GF just took the Friday off work. We will be heading there on Friday morning and staying until Sat afternoon....maybe even Sunday.

Let the good time roll!

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Post by JerCraigs »

Most samples were in the $2-5 range last year, with a decent number of the more rare stuff from the US and international being $4-8 and some as much as $10+.

Most of the more expensive stuff I tried was well worth it, others were not. I had some that were ~$7 (ie. Maui brewing, Boulevard) that were much better value than the $5 stuff from Quebec... The local stuff seems to vary from ridiculously cheap to crazy expensive depending on the brewery.

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