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Alberta and Manitoba are 18 too. Pretty much alternates across the country. BC=19, AB=18, SK=19, MN=18, ON=19, QC=19, Maritimes... well I'm not sure. I was in bars in Newfoundland and later in Halifax when I was 18, but I never had my id checked. I assumed it was 18.
You can almost never go wrong with beer. Quebec is special. You can buy beer at the gas station. You can't anywhere else in Canada that I've been to.
In my experience, "Canadian" redbull is no different from any other. It is definatly carbonated, but the cans are small. I think they all are. I have had a few nights of redbull-vodkas. Depending on the situation it's great, but I've outgrown it (works nicely if you don't mind a drunken caffiene stimulant overload in a club thats almost a rave). I have a friend that has a perfect record of picking up or getting in a fight whenever we used to drink it.
Montreal, like most places, has stupidly expensive drinks in the bars/strip clubs. Be prepared to shell out 5 bucks a beer (granted, $CND). I was really surprised the first time I went to the bar and found out just how expensive it would be to get drunk.
I drink gin and tonic almost exclusivly when I'm out. Doesn't fill you up like beer, it isn't too sweet (like most mixed drinks are by the 3rd round), and is still drinkable in high ratios. Double gin and tonic is a short little ice filled bar glass= perfect.
If you do buy a mixed drink, don't stir it much (flat is bad) and after the inital 'once around the glass stir', I take out the straw. I don't know if there is a real reason why: I was once firmly directed by a scary biker type that "straws are for fags and women". It was prudent, at the time, to take his idea to heart. But I don't drink out of a straw when I mix drinks at home either.
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