Les Brasseurs RJ is a brewery located in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada. The company was founded in 1998 by Roger Jaar from the merger of three microbreweries:
Les Brasseurs GMT,
La Brasserie Le Cheval Blanc and
Les Brasseurs de l'Anse. Current annual production capacity is over 125,000 hL; they claim to be the largest microbrewery in Quebec. They currently employ 450 people, including employees at the head office in Montreal, a distribution centre in Quebec City, and a brewery in l'Anse St-Jean that fills beer kegs.
In addition to a variety of beers of their own fabrication and recipe, the microbrewery brews two
d'Achouffe beers under licence and distributes the
Bitburger Premium Beer,
Köstritzer Schwarzbier,
König Pilsner, and
Wernesgrüner for the Quebec market. A portion of their sales from the "Rescousse" brand used to collect funds for the preservation of endangered species via a donation to the Fondation de la faune du Québec.
Due to the brewery's location in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough in Montreal, and their extensive sponsorship of local events, they are known as the "Official Brewer of the Avenue" (Mount-Royal Avenue)
Peter McAuslan, President, and Ellen Bounsall, Vice-President Production, founders and majority shareholders of La Brasserie
McAuslan Brewing Inc., announced in April 2014 that they sold their holdings to Les Brasseurs RJ. They will have no further role in the operations of McAuslan.
See also
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Quebec beer
Quebec beer is the beer brewed in Quebec, Canada, often with ingredients from Quebec itself and generally following the recipes of the French, Belgian and British brewing traditions. Generally, the beers brewed in Quebec differ from those in the r ...
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Canadian beer
Beer was introduced to Canada by European settlers in the seventeenth century. The first commercial brewery was La Brasseries du Roy started by New France Intendant Jean Talon, in Québec City in 1668. Many commercial brewers thrived until pr ...
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Les Brasseurs RJ
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Beer brewing companies based in Quebec
Food and drink companies based in Montreal
Manufacturing companies based in Montreal
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Food and drink companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in Quebec