Les Brasseurs Du Temps

Un beau lieu très spacieux pour un dîner ou souper animé entre amis!
Les choix de la carte sont des classiques de brasserie: sandwitch au porc effiloché, burger, poutine, wrap… etc Mais très bons. Les frites sont maisons mais ils devraient penser à changer l’huile plus souvent à mon goût.
Les bières en vente sont de leur propre production (environs une dizaine) mais aussi d’ailleurs.
Le service est convivial.
Il y a une belle salle pour environ 40 couverts en sous-​sol qu’il est possible de réserver pour des évènements.

The beer is great, but you can always buy it in Gatineau at the IGA. I’m not sure where else they sell the stuff. Clearly, this is a restaurant built on the fact that you are in a brewpub. I’ve been here twice and the food is mediocre at best. Service is spotty and incompetent at worst. The waiters never know what you’ve ordered and will screw up your order – repeatedly it seems. The atmosphere is passable. They have a very good patio.
Come for a dink of their delicious beer. Expect nothing more.

What a find!!! Great beer, good food, great patio, great beer! Service wasn’t the best but do you know what was??? The beer!!! As must stop when you have the chance.

Beautiful location! Fantastic Patio. The food is of excellent quality. I really enjoyed the charcuterie and cheese trays I shared with my family. I don’t really drink beer, but all other options were just as good. My father-​in-​law and husband were in beer heaven!

Service was fantastic. I tried their sampler which includes 12 of their regular beers. All of them were done very well. The Imperial Dark IPA, Doppleweizenbock, and Tripel were particularly great. We ordered nachos which were really good. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone who loves beer, even if you need to travel a bit, its worth it.

Les bières sont excellentes, la bouffe était très bonnes. Le boeuf braisée et le steak de thon sont délicieux. Seul point négatif de notre expérience était le service très lent. Par contre le serveur très poli c’est excusé pour le service. Je vais surement y retourner lors de ma prochaine visite à Gatineau.

Three of us came here for supper, We had the fried chicken on waffles, duck leg, and tuna steak. The food was fantastic: everyone cleaned their plate. The 12 beer sampler isn’t for everyone, as it is heavily skewed to darker and/​or higher alcohol brews, but they were al tasty. Can’t wait to o back and try some different dishes.

These guys have the best beer in our area; fantastic regular brews, like Carpe Diem, and always coming up with cool new flavours and recipes. They are teaming up with Boreal to help increase their distribution, and we are so glad to be able to buy their beer in bottles right in our local grocery store in Wakefield.
It’s definitely the best patio in Hull in the summer, right beside the creek/​bridge.
We often just go for a good poutine and pint before a movie, and they always have enough seating so you don’t have to wait. Great date place, and also if you had a semi-​large group (say up to 20 ppl) because there is lots of space inside.
Also, if you have visitors, take them on a tour in the beer museum! It’s incredible how much beer history and relics they have!!! I’ve never really caught a live music show, but I’ve heard they get good acts.

Amazing patio in the summer: it’s large, and the BDT’s façade is an 1800’s stone building, so it feels like a step back in time.
There is a wide selection of beer — naturally — and the selections are generally well made across the board. The fries were good here, but I’ve never had anything but that or poutine the three times I’ve been here.
It’s also a nice spot to recover post-​ride in Gatineau park.

We ended up coming to Les Brasseurs Du Temps for a night cap during our Weekend in Ottawa.
$ 17 for 12 samples made ordering really easy as I can just ordered every single one from the menu.
I love how the flip menu that give details description of style, tasting note and a little background of every single beer! It helps to enhanced the tasting experience and help picking something one enjoy!
I found most of the beers I sampled were OK, nothing outstanding and some waere meh. But this is more a personal preference.
We sampled:
Dumduminator
La Saison Haute
La Nuit Des Temps
L’Allumante
Et La Lumiere Fut!
Au Pied du Courant
Carpe Diem
Blanche De Koralie
La Grande Rivière
Ma Gaterie
La Scie Trouillarde
The tasting room area is dark and dim. Music a little on the loud side. There is large floor to ceiling windows across the entrance where you can see the actual brewery in the basement.
Fun place to drop by for some beers if you are in the neighbourhood.

Arrived on a rainy day so wasn’t able to take advantage of the large outdoor patio. But instead I got to sit near the glass and look down into the basement where they brew the beer! It was like staged entertainment watching the guy move the hops around the kettles.
I had the fish and chips and it was great. Light fish with a very crisp batter coating — of course it was beer batter!
Only small downside was I chose the wrong beer. I had the nut brown ale and I like a lighter taste. I would try something different next time.
But still a well recommended place.

Love the fish and chips! So goood! The gravy I ordered on the side for my fries was unique and delicious! The fish was also very good.
I’m not a big beer drinker but my blond beer was good as well.
The place has a nice ambiance.
I like sitting on the patio by the water.
I look forward to going in the winter because the inside is very nice as well. High roof and lots of wood.

Management decided to make this place the destination for our Christmas party. I have to admit, my expectations were low — I don’t usually like beer brewed in restaurants.
However, despite the fact that I only enjoyed 1 out of the 12-​beer sampler they called ‘l’Horloge’, the beef and bacon-​heavy Tennessee Jack burger came with a delicious beer-​based BBQ sauce that eventually found itself stuck all over my hands and my face. The (probably prepared in-​house) fries tasted fresh and were enjoyable.
If you work near Wellington or Eddy in Hull, you owe yourself a visit. Just don’t stray too far from the first beer on their list (the pale one that everybody is already drinking).

They brew their own beer, do I really need to say more? Okay then, their food is one or two (depending on what you order) notches above standard pub food, it’s generally very solid and in some cases quite good. Refreshing to see in a pub and goes along great with the fantastic beer.

The beers are great, if you like microbrewery beers.
The food is ok and the service is good.
The patio is amazing and the inside has a nice ambiance, not too small but very high ceilings.
The sample of beers is fun and their fries are really good!

Bonne bière, bonne bouffe, bonne ambiance et bon staff. Par contre, il né restait plus de rousse ni de brune lorsque j’y suis allé la dernière fois !!

Ok, this is my first 5* review. this does not mean this place is perfect just one of the best I have experienced.
So what is good? Passion, and lots of it. Passion of food and beer. and to those that get all annoyed to the francophone-​ness of the joint, this is Quebec.
Had the taster platter with a silly number of beers and the cheese, meat and bread plate. Full, a little drunk and very happy.
Ok, the beers:
This brewery has a bunch of good solid beers, some big (and very very good) high gravity beers and some odd (read: adjunct) beers. Not all beers will be for everyone but I think you can find something. My favorite: Mea Culpa, a great barley wine.
Ok, if you like Bud, and just want a dried out crappy burger, look elsewhere, if you want a beer experience with European style this is for you.

Très bonne bouffe et excellent choix de bières! Des bières comme vous aurez jamais déguster. Très belle terrace. Best beer in town!

Had fun there with a group for a bachelor party.
Selection of beer of different aromas ranging from ales, blondes, ambers, stouts, 5%-9% alcohol. You can order a sampler of 12 3oz glasses of beers for $ 17.
I had the duck burger. It was amazing. I really liked the sauce and the patty was tender.

Let me be honest here: I’m not much of a beer drinker. (Don’t shoot!) However, when I lived in Gatineau, all my friends were, so I ended up here quite often. Many a good nights had at this joint.
The atmosphere is great, the building is GORGEOUS, the fries are finger lickin good… There’s even a mini museum in the basement! My friends always enjoyed their beer.
The only bone I have to pick: If you’re not going to have a dance floor, don’t play brilliant house/​electronic music that makes me want to dance, dammit! Biggest tease ever.

There are only a few truly local breweries (their only brewing location is in Ottawa) in the Ottawa Gatineau area: les Brasseurs Du Temps, Kichesippi, Clocktower and the brand new Beyond the Pale (on 5 Hamilton Ave N, near Parkdale Ave and Wellington). Of these, BDT and Beyond the pale are my favorites.
Beer: Most of the beers brewed at les Brasseurs Du Temps are not subtle, when the description says cocoa nibs, you will taste and smell the cocoa nibs. However, as a craft beer connoisseur I will say that their beers are awesome — very flavorful and aromatic. Their beer is reasonably priced, especially for the quality and beers that are only available for a limited time. You can get a flight of 3 oz pours of 12 of their beers for 18,75 (36 oz of 5%-9% abv). They also serve beer in 12 oz, 20oz, and in a pitcher once you find your favorite.
Their food is more expensive, but worth the quality. Their bison tartare is good (I prefer the steak tartare at Wellington Gastropub) and their duck burger is amazing.
Atmosphere: if you come on a Friday or Saturday night then it will be busy and there will be loud club music (not club volume level loud, but loud for a brewery), other nights you’re likely to hear something similar to Hotel Costes (chilled electronic) and at a much lower volume. The outside patio is very nice, especially in the summer. There is a beer museum along a spiral walkway that starts at the main bar and goes down to the dining area and continues down to another bar room, well worth a visit.

EDIT: 2015-​01-​26
It being over two years since I was last here is a sign that I’m not a huge fan of this place but I have to say that my second experience did make me appreciate a few elements I hadn’t seen on my first time around.
In my opinion, I think BDT is a ‘bar’ first and a ‘restaurant’ later and as a ‘bar’, it has a lot going for it. It has good ambience and really quite affordable beer. On a Saturday night, BDT was pretty much packed with young people and if you are going for a drink, I think I would definitely recommend it.
On the flip side, my opinion about the food hasn’t changed much. On this second visit, I ordered their mushroom soup as an appetizer and I have to say it was pretty nice for what it was. Their fish tacos on the other hand were quire a disappointment mainly due to the mushy, pasty tasting cod they used. The burgers that others ordered that night didn’t seem to improve much over my first experience years ago. But I still liked their fries.
AS A BAR: 4 STARS
So, taking this into account, as a bar/​place to drink, I would give BDT a good 4 our of 5 stars.
AS A RESTAURANT: 2 STARS
As a place to go and eat, I’d look elsewhere as I’ve definitely had better so I’d give BDT 2 out of 5 stars.
For the purposes of Unilocal,I’ll bump my review up from 2 stars to 3.
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I had lunch here with the missus last week. She works nearby and has gone a few times with colleagues from work. While I had heard good things about it, I have to say my first experience wasn’t the best.
I ordered their burger and it was probably one of the most boring burgers I have had in a while. First off, they use cheap buns. What I mean by ‘cheap’ are the ones that fall apart as they are a bit too dry and aren’t dense enough to hold together. This is a pet peeve as it is a main part of a burger and bad bread is a let down. I view it as trying to maximize profits by using cheap components… spend an extra nickel and buy something better. The rest of the burger was also boring. Simply a slice of cheese and some bbq sauce. It was really bland on the whole.
The fries, on the other hand, were excellent. Just the way I like them.
Can’t comment on the beer.
The inside of the place is pretty nice. I can see why people would like to go there, though I can see it getting pretty loud.
Anyways, I’d go back again to try something else to see if it is just the burger you should stay away from. But I’d be going in with already one bad experience behind me and after two bad experiences, I’d never go back.

Le Jean Claude Van Damme de bière… It may not be my American Chuck Norris, but it still kicks ass… For Canada that is…
Relative to long list of microbreweries I have visited, this is memorable for its name, a great patio/​beer garden and terrible service. The latter dragged the rating down substantially!
I grabbed the sampler of the 12 beers on tap. Honestly the range was impressive, but the quality suffers from trying to do too many things in my honest opinion.
The parking is an absolute nightmare with only public streetside limited spots available.
Note to the brewmaster: love the passion, but find 5 brews you want to capture the market for quality and build those brands. Otherwise you fall into the same old market of poor quality Canadian brews that lack progressive style and taste.
Santé!

BDT is a pretty neat little microbrewery until you realize there is another level in the basement that makes it a very large space.
I was recommended this place by a friend who told me they brewed their own beer and had a large sample platter. Yup good call, I’ll want to check this place out for sure.
I’ve been by a few times now and I must admit that I am somewhat disappointed in the beers they brew here. The sample platter consists of a dozen samples of the beers they have brewed that month. I love the concept and idea and even the execution but I find that half the sampler is ok, a few I like and a few I don’t like. The part that sucks is that the beers that you may like one visit might be gone the next making it hard to pinpoint something you like.
I’ve tried the burger and smoked meat poutine here and the burger isn’t bad but I did like the smoked meat poutine. I’ve tried the mussels and chips here as well and I was not a fan of that. I found my mussels cold but the fries were solid.
If you haven’t been come experience it once. You may like more beers in the sample more than I do and of course try a poutine :)