Regarding meeting for beers if that ever happens it should only happen at a craft brewery. I only drink beer at craft breweries and I will have it be known, in case anyone is in the buying mood (such as Halloween Mike, LOL), I prefer Saisons. My guess is that the Americans or many of them would call me a pussy for drinking Saisons, but my most recent Saison I sampled was a 9.2% and I would call them pussies for drinking anything weaker. In case you don’t know what a Saison is or why I am mentioning it, it’s a style of beer originating in France and know for its high carbonation - as with wines the French like to carbonate their beer, and the Saison is a really wonderful fruity result. The plum saison I recently tried at Reverie in CT not only was the best tasting beer I ever had,
but it kicked my ass. Montreal is a French City last time I checked, or predominantly French, and I am figuring if their craft breweries can’t make as good a Saison as I had in CT, then what the hell good are they?
And technically Saisons may be an ale and not a beer but I consider all of them species of beer, despite their subcategories. Sort of like chimpanzees are apes, as are gorillas.