Tapsucker wrote:saints_gambit wrote:sprague11 wrote:JSJ for best beer writer at the next Golden Taps?
Victory in our time will be reward enough.
Or some more book sales!![]()
aw shucks, I'm shilling now...
Oh crap! I forgot!
HEY EVERYONE! BUY MY BOOK!
Craig wrote:http://www.bargecraftbeer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Hassell-letter-to-Attorney-General-re-Proposal-for-Ontario-Beer-Law-Reform.pdf
Barge's proposal to the government to fix the beer laws and drop their lawsuit. Basically means allowing private retailers, I wish them luck.
Craig wrote:http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2015/01/14/charles-sousa-warns-change-brewing-for-beer-store-monopoly.html
Sousa says he's going to "redesign" and "reassess" TBS. The Star says changes are going to come in the March budget. Sounds promising that something will change, but it would be nice to get an idea of what.
saints_gambit wrote:Craig wrote:http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2015/01/14/charles-sousa-warns-change-brewing-for-beer-store-monopoly.html
Sousa says he's going to "redesign" and "reassess" TBS. The Star says changes are going to come in the March budget. Sounds promising that something will change, but it would be nice to get an idea of what.
I don't know how a minister of finance can redesign a non-governmental institution. Maybe they're going to nationalize the sucker.
Cagiva650 wrote:I can see it coming. All the Wynne government is going to do is introduce a fee/tax/monopoly service charge to extract more money from the Beer Store. Nothing else is going to change. The big brewer's monopoly is going to be legitimized (hey, we are paying for it!). Face it. Except for a few of us beer lovers no one is even talking about change anymore. Wynne promised change just to buy time until the joe six packs found another news story to distract them. Yes, I'm pretty cynical, but I'm sure we aren't going to be buying Stone Ruination at a new Premier Wines Yonge Street location in my lifetime.
Cass wrote:IMO, there's only been in my drinking lifetime three "significant" changes to the way beer is sold in Ontario:
1. Sunday retail hours
2. Extending last call to 2am
3. Permitting brewery tied houses
Other improvements we've seen in the beer scene (such as LCBO improving import selection) has had more to do with market forces rather than structural change.
Even though the awareness of TBS being bad is as prevalent as it has ever been in history, I'm pessimistic that the March budget will add a #4 to the list above. I hope I'm wrong.
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