Bayer
Senior Member
As expected, the Manulife LCBO is just displaying more Crown Royal where American whiskies used to be. I hope we can expect new products in the next few weeks.
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LCBO / The Beer Store
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Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Meanwhile, on the lighter side of beer...
( Our country has stuff we can be proud of, if American beer is water then our beer is juice.)
( Our country has stuff we can be proud of, if American beer is water then our beer is juice.)
evandyk
Senior Member
Yeah, the US probably has better beer than any other country in the world, but we hardly ever got any of it. Losing the stuff they sold in the LCBO/Beer Store was definitely no loss.
lenaitch
Senior Member
I'm not that widely travelled but I can't say I've beer in the US that I found exceptionally good with the exception of a few craft beers in Michigan.
Agreed. Craft beers can be good (I had one pre-Jan 20, but I can't remember the name now), but the larger corporate American beer? Watered down swill.
evandyk
Senior Member
Yes, I’m talking about craft beer. Have you been to Portland/seattle?
gabe
Senior Member
I agree! You walk in to the grocery store, they got 30 different types of craft beer. Here i walk into the grocery stores, it's all macro swill.
gabe
Senior Member
Yes corporate American beer is water, like our macro beer. But the US does have amazing craft beer. NYC has stores that sell nothing but craft beer. Wish we could have stores like that here. I'd spending a lot there making them rich lol.
Wasn't there one in Liberty Village at one time?
gabe
Senior Member
Independent beer stores are not allowed in the province of Ontario. You can have "bottle shops" but they have to follow provincial laws. They are basically restaurants with beer to go. Not the same as NY state.
It was the "beer boutique", run by The Beer Store ... you could buy individual cans, etc, in a nicer environment than the typical Beer Store. It was quite a few years ago, just before the craft/micro brewery craze took off. (Google helped my memory)
gabe
Senior Member
oh i remember that now. Yeah that concept didn't last long. They basically stocked macro swill in a fancier environment. Not surprising it failed. The big brewer giants that own the beer store, do everything in their power to block the sale of independent craft beer. The Beer Store monopoly needs to end ASAP.
Northern Light
Superstar
You're clearly going to the wrong grocery stores.
First off, there is actually a minimum shelf space quota for craft beer under the supermarket and convenience store licenses.
From: https://doingbusinesswithlcbo.com/content/dam/lcbo/common/dbwl/New_retailer_QA_1.pdf
There is no maximum for craft product.
Second, talk to your store manager, they have wiggle room to bring in what sells.
I spoke to a local manager and rearranged their wine list to suit my taste....... I also gave them notes on what would sell widely and why and how to market it. I got two dozen SKUs switched.
Its not hard.
txlseries4
Active Member
Quebec knocks it out of the park imo, with even some of the grocery stores having huge amounts of craft beer. Some people have a selection at their nearby dep (dépanneur), or incredible shops like Broue Ha Ha in Gatineau and the small chain of Le Monde des Bières stores around Quebec City.
Some images from Google Maps/Facebook
Broue Ha Ha
Le Monde des Bières
IGA
Some images from Google Maps/Facebook
Broue Ha Ha
Le Monde des Bières
IGA
gabe
Senior Member
So it's the LCBO fault alright. Now if we remove the interprovincial trade nonsense, maybe we will see more Canadian craft beers on the shelves?
NY state still does it better than here with craft beer.