The U.S. Alcohol Industry Is Reeling From Canada’s Booze Boycott
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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
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Will booze be cheaper for America now?
They need to recover costs so now they’ll have to pump the local population for more. And they can so they will.
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“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.
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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.
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“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!
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Do y’all make good wine? Or do you just import it from Chile instead of California?
Whites are OK but not great. Reds are bleh, not enough sun.
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Will booze be cheaper for America now?
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.
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Whites are OK but not great. Reds are bleh, not enough sun.
Okanagon wine, lots of sun and desert heat
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Do y’all make good wine? Or do you just import it from Chile instead of California?
The wine drinkers I know already drank Canadian wines before this whole ordeal
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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
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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.
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.
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Okanagon wine, lots of sun and desert heat
And most of those wineries will tell you they aren’t great reds. Been doing wine buying trips in the Okanagan for 30 years when there was maybe 6 wineries.
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And most of those wineries will tell you they aren’t great reds. Been doing wine buying trips in the Okanagan for 30 years when there was maybe 6 wineries.
It depends. Kelowna is a bit north for reds so you’ll get your pinot, gamay, zweitgelt, etc and they’re decent. I find the only good merlot, syrah, foch, even tempranillo, fuller body stuff is mostly Similkameen Valley and south near the border. I’d say there’s definitely solid red options but they come at a price. Chilean or even French equivalents for less.
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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.
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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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It depends. Kelowna is a bit north for reds so you’ll get your pinot, gamay, zweitgelt, etc and they’re decent. I find the only good merlot, syrah, foch, even tempranillo, fuller body stuff is mostly Similkameen Valley and south near the border. I’d say there’s definitely solid red options but they come at a price. Chilean or even French equivalents for less.
Best one I had tasted was Unity brand in the 2005 range. A mix of Okanagan Valley Red and a Niagara Red as a joint project. At the time it was $25 a bottle while other reds were priced at $10-12. But wow what a flavour
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The wine drinkers I know already drank Canadian wines before this whole ordeal
honestly canadian wine is quite good. every time ive tried wine outside of canada, i always end up comparing it to canadian wine and am slightly dissapointed in comparison.
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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.
Yes, exactly!
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“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!
Keep up the good work!
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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.
