We are proud to announce the winner of our ‘What it Means to be Canadian’ contest with Old Tomorrow Brewery! There were a lot of great entries and it was really hard to pick just one winner. We want to thank everyone who participated, we had a great time and hope you did to! Here… Read More
Time for another interesting tidbit in the ongoing Beer Store war. Today it was revealed by Martin Regg Cohn that the Beer Store has threatened that any change to the current situation could be considered a violation of NAFTA trade agreements or possibly expropriation (no idea where they get that idea) and as such they could… Read More
It’s the SuperBowl. Which as of this writing has the most expensive television advertising in the world. Budweiser in all of their wisdom, decided to use this multi-million dollar investment to blatantly insult craft brewers. When I say blatant, I mean it. You can see the ad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHU_9ec94c They call themselves ‘Proudly Macro’ and a… Read More
There’s been a big hullabaloo about the Beer Store recently and with just cause: The Beer Store isn’t even Canadian owned and it has a monopoly on bulk beer sales. There’s been lots of conversation about that topic, including a great post by Ben Johnson here. So I won’t reiterate. We need to think bigger… Read More
Edit: It looks like Barge ‘reached out’ to Ontario craft brewers in the fall of 2014. At least, according to their Twitter. Barge Craft Beers, the company that put the Ontario government on notice to change their liquor laws, sent a letter (by fax) to the Attorney General of Ontario this morning. The letter included… Read More