By reducing markup and creating grant programs, the Alberta government is supporting the province’s liquor industry and helping businesses grow and thrive.
Since launching in August 2016, the Alberta Small Brewers Development Program has provided eligible small brewers with grant funding, giving recipients the flexibility to invest in their businesses, increase production capacity, launch new products, reach new markets, make important capital improvements and create jobs.
DRINKING on a flight is one of the ways to make it go a lot faster– but booze can be pricey when you’re in the air.
Unfortunately, you’re not legally allowed to serve your own drinks on a flight - plenty of passengers have been booted off planes for trying.
It may not be the 1920s, but headlines across the whisky industry and Canadian news sites have been reporting ‘prohibition-style raids’ of whisky by the government in British Columbia's bars.
A tax on sugary drinks introduced by the Government last year could increase alcohol consumption in some groups, a survey suggests.
The levy on sugary drinks may have unintended consequences on the nation’s shopping habits, researchers found.
Professor Sally Casswell, director of Massey University's Social Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation Centre, says taxpayers are footing the bill for emergency rooms filled with people harmed by alcohol - and that needs to change.
Four per cent of UK drinkers who have the most harmful alcohol consumption habits account for a third of all the alcohol drunk in the country, public health chiefs have revealed.
FRESNO, Calif. – Full Circle Brewing Co., Fresno-based craft brewery, announces their progress of securing $800,000 of capital. They are more than three-fourths to their goal which is projected to increase their productivity by ten fold.
Yamagata, Jan. 20 (Jiji Press)—Some Japanese wineries are moving to change their product indications containing geographical names ahead of the planned tightening of place-of-origin rules. The new rules aim to prevent consumer misunderstandings as the reputation of domestic wines continues to rise.
The Delhi government has directed all alcohol vends in the city to ensure sale of liquor through scanning from next month, officials said.
The excise department has issued directives to all liquor vends in the city, warning them of strict action if alcohol is sold without scanning barcodes after February 15
Eric Fergie is co-owner of Fets Whisky Kitchen in Vancouver, which is one of the society's partner bars.
He said officials from the provincial liquor branch seized 242 Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottles from his business on Thursday.