Supermarché Rahman Le Paradis de la Bière

Le Paradis de la Bière is way overhyped given their name. We found another place with a beer selection that was easily twice as large. I also found the guy who runs this shop to be very difficult to deal with; in fact, he was the rudest person I met during my time in Montréal. As previous international reviewers have said, he only accepts Canadian debit and cash, and brusquely refused to take my international debit card. I have had zero issues using this card at shops of all sizes in Montréal, Vancouver, Reykjavik, Osaka, and everywhere else I’ve been except this place, but he refused to run it because «it would cost him $ 2.00.» Even if that’s true – and again, I’ve never heard it anywhere else – it seems like pretty shoddy business sense, as I was planning to spent well over $ 100 here. I pointed this out to him and he said I didn’t understand how card processing worked, muttered something about small profit margins, then told me I could pay him $ 2 if I wanted to use it. No thanks. I went to a competitor, used the same card (with no complaint), and was much happier with both their selection and service. Stay away from this supposed «Paradis.»

OK beer selection, not quite living up to some of the hype. Fairly disorganized and prices on some bottles seem to be higher than elsewhere.

You don’t really come here for the atmosphere, the inside of the store is just like any other Depaneur in Quebec but is has a fantastic selection of Quebec micro brews. However, there is a shelf that covers one wall filled with a great variety of Quebec Micro brews. La Trou, Charlevoix, Dieu De Ciel, La Brasserie, and many others are represented. When you first walk in though, you’ll see a small cooler with limited selection and a few bottles on top, and a few near the cash register. The long wall of beers though is around the corner and easy to miss thinking there isn’t much here, so look around and you’ll quickly see it.
The proprietor speaks English fine if you need help, and he does know the product. I did ask for a few things and he knew what I was talking about but they didn’t have them. Also if you come as a vistor not from Canada you can not use credit cards here, it’s Cash and Canadian debit only.
This is a great store if you want to take a peak and grab some Quebec beers. However I dropped by on a quiet Sunday, and the proprietor told me that they usually get the bulk of items on Fridays and Saturdays and it becomes quite busy then, and Sundays are a little picked clean and dead customer visiting wise. Everything I’ve also read calls this place a little expensive, but personally it’s inline for what I would pay if I was in DC, and I didn’t find it that much more expensive than other places I saw beers at, so I find it reasonable, but there might be a better deal if you went somewhere else, but I wouldn’t call this place a rip off joint.
Still if you want Quebec beers, this is worth stopping in for, I could have easily bought many things. But if you want more international variety or something else then you’re not going to get much out of it.
Dieu de Ciel is also just up the the street a few blocks, so it’s a perfect one two punch for visiting.

Excellent beer store in Montréal. Great selection, though prices were higher than other shops I stopped in. They only take Canadian debit and cash — be prepared if you are a silly American like me. I picked out quite a haul to bring back to NY (things I would NEVER be able to find in NYC) and had to run out to the ATM in the sleet to make my purchase. Owner was sweet enough, though, to give me a free gift which was very, very appreciated!

Oh la la! Eh bien là je suis comblé… Le super marché Rahman est sacrément bien fourni! De la bière locale et importée à perte de vue! Vous n’aurez pas de misère à trouver ce que vous cherchez, surtout s’il est question de bières obscures québécoises… Les meilleures et les plus connues sont également de la partie et peuvent bien avoir le toupet en l’air sur les tablettes: Simple Malt, Dieu du Ciel! Maître-​Brasseur, Microbrasserie Charlevoix, Saint-​Arnould, Le Naufrageur, Pit Caribou, À l’abri de la tempête, Île d’Orléans, etc. etc. etc.
Mais ce qui distingue réellement ce dépanneur des autres de la région, c’est définitivement une bière en particulier… Si vous êtes un bièrophile et parcourez les dépanneurs spécialisés dans l’espoir de dénicher la perle rare des trouvailles houblonnées, vous aurez de quoi vous mettre dans la musette… Parlez-​en à Rahman, le sympathique propriétaire indien; vous serez ravis d’être tombé chez-​lui, au Paradis de la Bière, car il vous apprendra qu’on y vend une bière exclusive à son dépanneur: la Paradisiac Cuivrée, une IPA spéciale, unique en son genre, à l’amertume solide, brassée par Au Maître-​Brasseur. Essayez de deviner les deux épices indiennes secrètes qui ont été incorporées dans le brassin!..
On y vend aussi toutes sortes de verres à bières et chandails à l’effigie des brasseries. C’est de loin l’un de mes dépanneurs préférés. Se doit d’être connu de tous les bièrophiles…

Le supermarché Rahman, aussi appelé Le paradis de la bière, a la grande particularité d’offrir un choix impressionnant de bières à ses clients. En effet, on retrouve autant de bières venant des quatre coins du monde que de bières issues des micro-​brasseries québécoises. Ainsi, le Supermarché Rahman est l’endroit idéal si vous voulez acheter des bières allemandes, belges ou québécoises et ce, à quelques pas à peine de l’excellente micro-​brasserie Dieu du Ciel. D’ailleurs, les bières embouteillées de cette dernière y sont vendues.