The U.S. Alcohol Industry Is Reeling From Canada’s Booze Boycott

Molson Coors is a Canadian-American company with headquarters in Chicago and Montreal.

For me, that's enough to stay away from it, but it's not a fully American company, so I allow some leeway there.

Moosehead is the only fully Canadian major brewery left, to my knowledge.

Everything else is owned by either Molson-Coors, Sapporo or InBev.

We need a good replacement for bourbon though. No canadian whisky is a drop-in replacement

Edit: i know other styles of whisky exist. I've tried a lot of them. Nothing out there currently is close to bourbon. Not even the right type of grain to start with.

It's like asking for a champagne replacement and people suggesting red wines instead of other types of sparkling white wine (of which many exist)

At the risk of being downvoted, I think the beer quality is pretty similar on both sides of the border, except in what we call the Pacific Northwest, in a greater sense - Cascadia, if you will.

I’m not saying good beer doesn’t exist other places, but in my book, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon form a sort of fantastic microbrew continuum, an example where regional culture transcends the national borders.

A beer from Vancouver or Victoria is comparable in quality to Seattle or Portland, but they collectively wallop most breweries in the other parts of both our countries. These places have a much more developed beer culture, too. Hanging out at microbreweries is so much more of a thing in that region.

We just need to re invest into malting and making extracts as the only one in NA is in Ohio... Because an American bought up our facilities and moved them across the border

My local beer place told me that its distributor can't get any more Unibroue beer now. We don't deserve their glorious beer given our bullshit, but it still sucks.

GOBBLESS YA SON

Idk if this is just me but remember public education in the US making it seem so damn cool and good and special? It's like growing up, realizing Santa isn't real but watching people in their 50's break down like toddlers when you explain how it's all made up.

I believe he got off scot-free which is part of the C-suite job description, zero accountability unless there's credit to be taken

and thinking alcohol is bad for you.

I mean there is a strong scientific consensus on that.

I can also recommend everyone to say goodbye to alcohol. Alcohol free beers can be quite good nowadays. The only taste i miss sometimes is a Whiskey where you can taste the smokiness but it isn't too strong yet. Still not worth the negative health effects.

Of course. A diminishing domestic market combined with a completely obliterated export market. What a combo.

Yeah, that whole thing about supply/demand curves that you learned on day one econ 101? Yeah, that's bullshit.

In capitalism, they control the supply, so you pay what they demand. It's that simple. Markets do not in fact regulate themselves, and never have.

Nope, prices went up. A $40 bottle of whiskey a few months ago is going for $45.

Not a chance, it was already artificially inflated because they know they can get away with it

They'll probably still import Alberta barley which is some of the best malt-quality barley in the world. So they'll probably be tariffing that.

They need to recover costs so now they'll have to pump the local population for more. And they can so they will.

Canada makes really lovely wines. Vancouver Island especially has some of my favourites (also because I live here haha).

The wine drinkers I know already drank Canadian wines before this whole ordeal

The Niagara region in ON and Okanagan region in BC produce some good stuff, or so I'm told. More a beer and whiskey guy myself.

Ontario and BC wine is okay. I prefer white and I find the whites to be rather nice; I can't really speak to reds, though I had a nice Ontario Merlot a few years ago. Can't remember the name, unfortunately.

There's so much wine outside of the US and Canada though. Chilean wine has pleasantly surprised me lately, like you say. I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of Australia. You may be able to tell I'm on a budget, lol.

There’s many countries that produce wine, skipping on the US’s contribution is hardly a blip on the radar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_wine

Whites are OK but not great. Reds are bleh, not enough sun.