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The new Knowlton Co.

Located at 576 Knowlton Road in Brome Lake, the new microbrewery offers four beers, “that will always be on the menu,” says co-founder Jim Allan.

A Cream Ale, an IPA, a Wheat Ale and an English Porter, concocted by brewmaster Toby Bouchard, are now available on site. They will also be sold in cans and barrels for restaurants, starting Thursday.

“Easy to drink

“Next week we’re going to add another beer, a double IPA. And the week after that, it will be a saison. We’re going to try to add beers to the menu on a regular basis,” says Allan, who founded the business with his 25-year-old son, Nicholas.

In a common voice, the two new owners of the building with its large windows on Knowlton Road praise the smoothness of their beers and emphasize how easy they are to drink.

In a market that is becoming more and more important, the Allan family wanted to distinguish itself, especially by offering and making original products.

“If you look at what’s available on the market, you’ll be hard pressed to find a porter. There’s no such thing as a Cream Ale. Our IPA is a little different than what’s out there, too, it’s a West Coast IPA,” says Allan, Sr.

His son has a soft spot for the Porter. That’s exactly what I like in a beer,” admits Nicholas Allan. A dark beer, but not too thick. Light, but with the color of a Stout. Except it’s lighter, easier to drink than a Stout.”

La Knowlton Co. Porter is full of coffee and chocolate flavors, with little gas and bitterness. According to some of the comments Nicholas received, it would even appeal to those who don’t like beer very much. “It doesn’t burn when it goes into your mouth.”

The four house beers do not have names, but on each can there is a cartoon with three humorous images, which go with the slogan of the microbrewery: “Life is hard, but beer is sweet”.

A place to meet

The new microbrewery, open 7 days a week, from 11am to 11pm, takes its origin from a road trip.

In fact, in Nicholas’ last year of school in British Columbia, his father joined him and from Squamish, they traveled across Canada and visited several microbreweries.

“When we got to Montreal, we said, ‘Okay, let’s do it,'” says Jim, who had been brewing at home for a few years.

Thus was born the idea of leaving a place where human contact is the priority.

“We wanted people to focus on the beer, the food and the atmosphere. We wanted it to be a place where people come to socialize.”

Jim doesn’t rule out the addition of some musical or other events, but for now, he wants to focus on the products offered to customers.

The Brome Lake resident is proud to say that all their meat and vegetables come from local markets and producers, and that they work with the Terroir Solidaire cooperative.

“We trade our spent grain, the spent grain, for pieces of meat. What we provide is 25 percent of their animals’ diets.”

Even if it specializes in homemade pizzas, the microbrewery offers a varied menu: meat, hamburger, choice of salad, fries, soups, desserts.

Source : La Tribune