Black as sin: Péché Mortel, the coffee-tinged beer from Montreal (Photo by Joe Foodie)
• Coffee and beer are proving to be a formidable team in Péché Mortel (French for “mortal sin”), a beer from Montreal’s Dieu du Ciel brewery that combines imperial stout with dark roasted coffee. It’s flying off shelves at the LCBO, and the Star calls it one of the best beers in the country. Don’t take the paper’s word for it, though; in a list dominated by Québécois breweries, Péché Mortel currently ranks second among Canada’s 50 best beers, according to cyber-connoisseurs at ratebeer.com. [Toronto Star]
• Move over, Fuzion. 7-Eleven is releasing its own brand of bargain wine that will retail for $3.99 a bottle. It’s not the convenience store’s first foray into wine, but it is its first attempt at bringing a bargain wine to a global market (the wines will sell in the U.S. and Japan). Still, at $1.99 a bottle, Trader Joe’s Two Buck Chuck takes the cake as the plonkiest plonk out there. [Associated Press]
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