Note to english readers: I have done the translation myself and english is my second language only so please feel free to use the comment page to point any mistakes i had done. Also, I choose to translate those pages as close to the original as i could so bilingual people won't complain that the two version are not the same. You may find names and things that are irrelevant or just inside jokes. So, please just go along.

I slowly started surfing on the Internet in 1995. I will now do my part and participate to the gigantic "casse-tête" that the Web is by adding my page. The goal of this page is to learn HTML, to add a few usefull informations and to give people a chance to know me by this mean. This website start small but I have lots of expansion projects

To present myself, here are a few informations about me:

Name:	Sylvain Dupuis
Alias :	Altaïr
Place of residence :	Montreal, province of Quebec, Canada
Mother language:	French
Others spoken languages :	English, a bit of spanish
Civil status:	Single

My interests

I like to take a good drink with friends, I rarely take a glass alone. My preferences goes to specialities beers and a good alcohol like scotch or cognac. I'm in favor of "Drink beter, drink less"

• Bièropholie The most visited french website consacred to beer.
• Vermont and McNeill's brewpub A photo account of our first "inbeernational" visit.
• Few photos about a visit of three brouepubs
• Vices & Versa Photo report on our visit of "Vices & Versa" bistro.
• Mondial de la bière 2004 Photo Report on the 2004 Montreal beer festival.
• Vermont Yowie in search of lost times
Photo report of our trip at the 2004 Vermont Brewers Festival.
• Great expectation
Photo report of our trip to the Saguenay in the 2004 summer.
• Dieu du ciel 6th aniversary party
Some pictures taken at the brewpub party.
• Pub Italia
Photo report of our visit to Pub Italia in Ottawa.
• Visit to Brouemont
report of our visit at Brouemont brewpub... in Bromont!
• Trub Treck tour 2005
Photo report of our expedition with the Vermont Mashers.
• 6ième de 1000
Photo report of seventh edition of Bièropholie homebrewing club annual contest and picnic.

For beers lovers like me, a table explaning date codes on beer bottles to know how old they are.

• Beer bottles date codes

I am also a homebrewer since a few years. I rarely brew and i'm still brewing using malt extracts and finishing grains. I am slowly buying equipement to start brewing all gains.

• Fabrication of an immersion chiller
• How to brew The most complete online website consacred to teach everything you need to know about how to brew beer.

When I was youger I had done some skydiving and each time I was getting in the plane I was telling myself that I woud be piloting one day. I'm not a pilot yet but I took the theorical course. I will start to take the practical course as soon sa I have enough money.

• Aeroclub of Hydro Quebec employee My brother work for Hydro Quebec and we took the theorical course together.
• KLS Compsite The style of plane that I would like to build one day. The problem is that I don't have the money neither a place to build it.

I'm the kind of guy who always have a book with him. I read in the subway, during my lunch hour, even when I'm walking sometimes. I have to forbide myself to read at home or I would do notting else.

I'm mostly read science fiction and fantasy. Here's some of my favorite authors:

• Douglas Adams Author of the triology in five volumes « The hitchiker guide to the galaxy ». Science-fiction that do not take itself to seriously. So good that I read it again every few years.
• Isaac Asimov Author of the serie « Fondation » and numerus others works that have marked science fiction. Unavoidable, he can't be left aside.
• David Eddings Fantasy where the characters aren't all black or white like in J.R.R. Tolkien. Another one that I re-read once in a while.
• J.R.R. Tolkien Probably the most known author in fantasy, the parution of the three films of the serie "Lord of the rings" (I was at the LOTR marathon for the release of the last film feturing all three films one after the other) will certanly bring him a new generation of readers. After seing the films I have to start reading the triology one more time since my last reading goes back at least ten years. I must advise potential readers that a lot of peoples leave the books on the side after having read betwen 60 and a 100 pages. You must not forget that this triology had been writtten during the first half of the last century and that it suffer somes weak point: characters missing humanity, rarety of female characters and others points. Even whit it's weak point it's still an unavoidable work that started a new style of litérature.

I like almost any kind of music beside "dance" and opera. I'm mostly interested by Progressive Rock, Folk and Jazz. Concerning Jazz I'm a member of Montreal's International Jazz Festival for more than 15 years.

• Montreal's International Jazz Festival

I'm not a great sportman but here are some websites related to sports that I practice or had practiced in the past.

• Horizon Roc An interior climbing gymnasium, there is even a virtual route.
• The "marathon des deux rives" in Quebec city. I'm not in great forms but I've done the Montreal marathon in 1995 and the Quebec city one in 2000. I quit before the end in Quebec city, after 26 kilometres, the part in Quebec city is flat close to the river but the first part goes joyfully (exept for runners) in Levis betwen the upper and lower part of town. I had trained all summer on flat ground and I forfeited after the last hill.
• Skin Diver Online The most complete website on scuba diving that i know.

Under construction

History:

• 09-16-2001: Original version of the site made in answer to someone who said that it's better to have a website with faulty links than notting. The original version contained only the index page, all links going to a page in construction.
• 12-29-2003: Put on line the changing flags on index page. I have worked a long time on that, finding the script on Internet was easy but just one flag would change. I had to do lots of research and try and error before it finally worked. Initial creation of frames and the differents sections of the french index.
• 01-19-2004: Start of the french travel section.
• 12-01-2004: I lack of rigor in the history. Since last entry I added lots of pages in french concerning brewpubs and microbrewries visits, pages that i'm translating slowly. Yestersday I added the eMail page and the guestbook and tonight added the McNeill'S visit page and the page about the visit of three brewpub.
• 12-04-2004: Translated Vice & versa page.
• 12-04-2004: Translated Mondial de la bière 2004 page.
• 12-12-2004: Translated 2004 Vermont brewers festival page.
• 01-22-2005: Translated 2004 Saguenay trip page.
• 01-24-2005: Translated Pub Italia visit page.
• 01-30-2005: Translated Brouemont visit page.
• 02-04-2005: Translated beer date codes page.
• 03-04-2005: Translated immersion chiller page.
• 03-26-2005: Translated Trub Treck 2005 page.
• 09-24-2005: Added counters on main pages.
• 12-28-2005: Finished the translation of pages of my trip to Belgium and London.
• 08-28-2006: Added "6ième de 1000" page.




Website under construction!

I'm presently scanning all my pictures, it's verry long. Please excuse delays in the progression of this website.

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