DeepHour wrote:
^ Some interesting cultural differences here. As a UK citizen, I'm not familiar with the idea of a 'government store' (presumably as an outlet for selling alcoholic drinks?) or a 'brew pub'.
Every Province & Territory in Canada has it's own Liquor Control Board. In BC, we have BC Liquor Stores which are the government owned & operated stores that have been around for decades At Least - not sure how long. We used to have private "Cold Beer & Wine," stores that could sell those things and stay open until 11pm etc etc usually the licences are held by pub owners. A couple decades ago they opened things up to private liquor stores, so now private stores can sell all spirits as well and they often have better selections of craft beer/wine/spirits from smaller brewers/wineries/distilleries that come through distributors that specialize in low volume specialty stuff from producers that can't possibly pump out the volume required to supply all 100 something BC Liquor Stores. So everything mainstream is available from gov't stores, but particular specialty imports can only be found at select random private stores.. yet 100% of all alcohol sold in BC whether store or pub etc passes through the government's hands as they are the sole supplier by law.. even though the logistics operations that move, store, and transport it are private businesses - I guess just contracted by the gov't or they just tally every ounce and submit taxes or whatever I dunno. The largest facility I'm aware of is called Container World and with their expansion is somewhere around 1 Million square feet of alcohol distribution. Provincial liquor boards are also responsible for legal cannabis distribution - but it's not sold at liquor stores.
Not sure if other provinces have government operated stores or all private and the gov't just supplies them ?? No idea. But taxes are different province by province and even legal drinking age. Alcohol is way cheaper in Alberta and people are allowed to buy vodka at Costco!! ! Way more expensive in BC and it's only in the last few years some supermarkets can sell local BC wines and ciders but nothing else. It's all overly complicated for no particularly good reason besides generating revenue for the government.
Brew pubs are exactly as they sound like.. pubs that brew their own beer. Some have larger breweries than major popular European breweries! Mainstream beer brands are brewed in GIANT warehouses. Brew pubs also often can/bottle their beer and sell it on site to go, or distribute to liquor stores as well.
Here's the one I'll go to for dinner after my shopping spree:
https://www.howesound.com/
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