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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Yes, exactly!

Keep up the good work!

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.

GOBBLESS YA SON

It’s getting worse. They’re actively combing curriculum for bad stuff and lightening it or taking it out entirely. Trail of tears, Japanese internment, banana republics, etc.

I had a conversation a few months ago with a frat bro who didn’t know the origin of the phrase “Banana Republic”. When I explained to him that we destabilized and exploited south American countries for shit like bananas and coca cola, he outright refused to believe it. And after roughly 20 minutes of online sources the only thing he relented was that “The times were different and that was just the cost of doing business.”

We killed people for cheap fruit and sugar water. Murdered. Gunned them down in the streets and their beds while they slept.

The American empire isn’t going to fucking collapse because we show an ounce of remorse for the evil that’s been perpetuated in the name of “our freedoms.”