If you have an opportunity to drink any beer from the Canadian brewer Unibroue (from Quebec), don't pass it up either. Positively the best beer I've ever had from a North American brewer. Most of their good stuff is also on lees, refermented in the bottle. My faves are their Belgian style ales, Trois Pistoles, Maudite and La Fin du Monde. I also quite like their "wit" style, Blanche de Chambly. They all get top ratings at BeerAdvocate so they can't be good only to my palate.
I agree that everything I've had from them is fantastic. There is even a restaurant within 20 minutes of me with some of their beers on tap.
For myself, Stella would have to battle Labatt Blue for the worst tasting beer available in Canada. I really really don't like the taste at all and can't even finish a full glass.
I actually like Stella. It's become common enough here that almost everywhere I go offers it even if the next-most exotic thing on their menu is Sam Adams.
Labatt Blue is Coors Light of the north.
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