23 years ago today, a group of Montreal based homebrewers met in the backroom at Brutopia and decided to start a local homebrew club. That club has evolved to become what the MontreAlers are today. Even though my participation in the club is low compared to others (mostly due to geographic challenges), I’m probably the only remaining active member from that first meeting. I’d like to thank the board of directors - past & future - for keeping this club going. Cheers!
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Merci Denis d’avoir eu cette rencontre il y a aujourd’hui 23 ans! Ça a fait beaucoup de petits depuis!
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And to celebrate, I’m brewing batch #382, a Muzgo House Ale.
This muzgo, that muzgo, etc. 
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I joined the club in 2012, 10 years in. The members of this club accelerated my learning to brew by leaps and bounds. It’s a essential part of the hobby and I really appreciate the small but dedicated group of people that make up the club.
Cheers!
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Cheers to 23 years MontreAlers!
I’ve heard stories of Toronto homebrewers spending a lot of time in Montreal in those days!
GCHC and Homebrewer Pubcrawls from what I heard!
Wish I could have been there, but I only started homebrewing in 2013 in the last days of CABA
The big annual event was March in Montreal which consisted of a full day including a competition, a morning seminar, lunch, afternoon brewery/brewpub crawl and an awards dinner to hand out CABA medals to the winners of the competition.
When I took over in the early 2000s, I did without the dinner and had the awards handed out at lunch, seeing how there were plenty of dinner options in downtown Montreal and a lot of the out-of-towners wanted to keep pub crawling. We would typically hold the morning seminar and luncheon at the newest of the brewpubs that had opened that year. The year we were at Dieu Du Ciel, we had Greg Noonan as our guest speaker. Lots of fond memories of those years and I would regularly attend CABA events in Toronto.