“The Distilled Spirits Council, an industry group, estimated exports of U.S. distilled spirits to Canada at $43.4 million over the first six months of 2025, down about 62% from the same period in 2024. Exports of American wine were about 67% lower, the group said, citing U.S. trade data.”
Good job, Canada! Keep your elbows up!
Boycott us harder Maple Daddy.
GOBBLESS YA SON
Good job Canada! Keep it up. Boycott more US products / services. Thank you,
-an American
Wasn’t there some c suite recently saying exports to Canada are equivalent to a rounding error in terms of volume? Where’s that guy? How’s he doing?
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
Nothing of value will be lost.
Canada’s got great local craft brewries and distilleries all over the place. We do not need American stuff, and at least on the beer front the Canadian-brewed stuff’s just plain better tasting.
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 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)
You won’t find “american bourbon taste” exactly… But just like you wont find Scotch taste exactly.
They’re different things, and learning to appreciate the good things in that diversity of style will only help you be happier in life… I love rye, it’s not the same as canadian whiskey, irish whiskey or scotch whisky, but itnhas its place in my cupboard. I’m sure you can find a good Indian or Japanese bourbon-copy whiskey!
But just like you wont find Scotch taste exactly…
Yes, but many japanese whisky is based on scottish methods and has a similar style to scotch. It would be a decent replacement if scotland decided to declare war on canada…
We need whisky distilled from corn and aged in oak… Yes, you cant call it bourbon, but it’s a better start than just trying to shoehorn rye whisky in as a replacement
If it makes y’all feel any better, it was legally pretty difficult to brew any kind of distilled liquor in the US following Prohibition until, like, 2010. America’s iconic alcohol products tend to be produced in places where there has been a traditional carve-out — at least on the East Coast, blue laws reign supreme.
Y’all have an entire Canada to make cannabis and liquor in. You have a real head start compared to us; you will find a way to replace American Whiskey, rum, gin, or beer in no time flat. Could be time for Canada to enjoy a Renaissance of importing foreign and exotic liquors, like soju or araqi.
There are a bunch of places in BC making gin, I can think of at least 15. Really interesting flavours and techniques. Two of my favourites are Victoria Gin and Sheringham Point. Tofino also has a good distillery. It’s the new craft alcohol scene since people are kinda off beer it seems. (I would add links but my internet is being wonky).
I got the opportunity to try this limited run from Compass recently, and it’s fantastic. Unfortunately, sold out already and they’re not currently making more, but they damn well should.
In general though, I found myself switching to Canadian whiskey in my cocktails a while ago. Canadian Club is still dog-ass and you shouldn’t touch the stuff, but that doesn’t mean other distillers haven’t been upping their game. Dillons has a really nice whiskey out now, to complement their selection of - and I am 100% not exaggerating here - the best god damn gins ever made, and the Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye deserves all the awards it was showered with. There’s also the Alberta Premium Cask Strength which everyone has been raving about. I’ve tried the regular Alberta Premium and it really is excellent. I imagine the cask strength is even better.
Can you be more specific on those gins? You have my attention.
Specifically, you want to get your hands on their Unfiltered Gin 22. It is, hands down, the best gin I have ever tasted.
Thanks!
I’ll have to see if I can pay a stupid tariff on it, then I’ll save it for when a particular obituary is in the paper.
No the person you asked, but see my comment above for some Vancouver island gin recommendations if you’re interested.
Dunrobin Distillery makes some good gin as well, though the Earl Grey gin is a novelty imo.
Nice! Thanks for the tip!
What about importing whiskey from Ireland? There are differences in taste, ingredients, and production methods, but it might be similar enough to be an alternative. Here is a good reference about the differences between whiskey and burbon. Bourbon is a spirit that evolved from whiskey production methods.
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.
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
Keep up the good work!
If only there weren’t so many maple-washed. eg. I bet some Canadians think Molson Canadian is Canadian.
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.
There is enough really phenomenal beer available from local microbreweries now that I never have to drink Molson ever again. (not that I would ever describe Molson as phenomenal, just that every bar and restaurant carries better stock now.)
Trying beer I’ve never had before is one of my favorite things to do when I’m in a new city.
Molson also produces at least some of their beer in Canada afaik
They still have breweries in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and BC.
Can confirm the New-West brewery has shut down. They paved that entire district, put up a parking lot (under these great-looking buildings).
The one in Chilliwack is their main factory here I think.
Half out of the country is only PART Canadian.
I wonder if Miracle Max can do anything about that….
Verily it is not Canadian any longer. The jobs are all in Murca. It’s brewed in Murca.
They still have active breweries in four provinces.
I get that but it’s all labeled 'Proudly Brewed in the U.S. of A.
In my local store, anyway.
Moosehead is the only fully Canadian major brewery left, to my knowledge.
Everything else is owned by either Molson-Coors, Sapporo or InBev.
“major” breweries make garbage beer anyway
You do you.
Source: US Citizen.
Also fuck the US.
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.
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Yes, exactly!
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Get fucked yanks. 🖕🖕🖕
Funny… another headline today was about 53% of adults no longer drinking and thinking alcohol is bad for you.
I guess the two go hand in hand….
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.
Helps that Kurzgesagt just came out with a video all about how there’s no amount of daily alcohol intake that’s not bad for you.
It turns out that all of those “studies” saying that a glass of wine or a glass of beer a day is actually healthy for you was all bullshit.
I am sad that I missed the trend where kombucha was stocked at a bunch of bars (or so I’m lead to believe). Non-alcoholic beer is getting better all the time, but the bar that stocks a good, strong tasting ginger kombucha would get my business. Love that shit.
…makes a note to try and connect his local haunt with the kombucha brewery 15 minutes down the road, as it sort of fits the vibe they are going for these days anyway
Of course. A diminishing domestic market combined with a completely obliterated export market. What a combo.
Will booze be cheaper for America now?
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.
Yeah it was pretty eye-popping to see a bottle of Jameson’s costing almost $40 in the last couple of years.
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.
Good! Let them reel…
