zang
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You sure? I can't find any news of that.^One company already announced they will participate.
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You sure? I can't find any news of that.^One company already announced they will participate.
From an article WKLis posted a few pages back:You sure? I can't find any news of that.
At least one beer-maker, operating out of Prince Edward County, has promised to sell a specialty brew for a loonie. Barley Days Brew, which is set to host Ford for the buck-a-beer announcement, says it's discount lager is "not going to compromise" on quality.
Barley Days Brewery General Manager Kyle Baldwin says they hope to be offering a case of 24 beers for $24 soon.
Also, where are you getting $33 for a 24?
Imagine that, Prov of Ontario official beer. Would certainly help the coffers.
Fine.... but why did they let Dollarama Doug on the premises to do their spiel if they weren't going to participate with his "buck a swill" promo?To note: The cheapest beer Barley Days sells at the LCBO is $2.82 a bottle in a 6 pack. On their own website (presumably sold on brewery premises), the cheapest they sell a beer is $2.95. I doubt they can actually afford to sell a beer for $1 without taking a loss. Again, this leads me to believe that Barley Days is just looking for promotion, but won't be able to supply product. They certainly aren't big enough to be able to supply the province.
My bet is that there will likely be no companies participating for Labour Day. Why would they? What do they have to gain?
That's not true! She has other things to pretend about:I guess when the going gets tough, the dear Minister will just hide and ride it out for a few days, be useless and pretend nothing had happened.
AoD
https://www.intelligencer.ca/news/local-news/quaiff-questions-new-governments-professionalismRobert Quaiff says the lack of professional courtesy displayed by the Progressive Conservatives regarding their buck-a-beer announcement Tuesday in Prince Edward County speaks volumes about the new government.
The Prince Edward County Mayor is miffed that he or other members of council were not extended an invitation to Barley Days Brewery for Premier Doug Ford’s announcement.
“What a useless, nothing press conference,” Quaiff said. “Everything is falling down around us and Doug Ford is promising a buck a beer. It speaks volumes about the priorities of this government. He rolled back the basic income pilot project he promised not to touch during the election campaign, he scrapped cap-and-trade and the sex ed curriculum, and that’s just a few of their non progressive moves.
“But the biggest thing for me with Tuesday’s announcement is the lack of professional courtesy. I’m still the mayor of Prince Edward County and it’s the lowest level of respect the PCs could have shown on behalf of Prince Edward County. When they want to showcase the Premier we should have received the respect of an invitation, but we didn’t receive one. I learned about the announcement online, so I asked my executive assistant, the CAO and his executive assistant if we received an official invitation and we had not. I finally got a text message from Todd Smith (Bay of Quinte MPP and Government House Leader) an hour before the event, which is ridiculous.
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Quaiff said he would have attended the announcement had he received an invitation, but feels the buck a beer plan doesn’t help anyone, especially not the craft brewers who many have already stated they will not be lowering prices.
“There are a lot of craft breweries here in Prince Edward County that are not going to be lowering prices because they simply cannot afford it. The announcement looks like more of a distraction from their other moves. It did nothing. There was no funding announcement, no benefit to anyone,” Quaiff said.
Smith could not be reached for comment.
Cheap publicity points with the Ford voters.
Fine.... but why did they let Dollerama Doug on the premises to do their spiel if they weren't going to participate with his "buck a swill" promo?
In 2015, as I mentioned. IIRC, *Ontario* beer taxes haven't gone up since what, 2011? The rise in price is federal, therefore across the board.
https://punchdrink.com/articles/story-behind-the-worlds-worst-cave-creek-chili-beer/The Story Behind the World’s Worst Beer
With the right search terms, you can find the video on YouTube. Standing in a small bathroom, some jackass in a skuzzy white undershirt takes a clear bottle of piss-yellow beer and decants it into a Corona-branded shaker pint. As the bottle empties, a middle finger-sized chili pepper plops out into the foam. Reluctantly, the young man takes a sip of the beer. He then immediately begins spitting up into the nearby toilet as his cameraman explodes with laughter.
That jackass was me.
It was the late aughts and I’d developed a weird fascination with trying the so-called worst beers on planet Earth—and having friends film my reactions. I’m not talking Natty Light or Milwaukee’s Best, but Bud Light Chelada and Mama Mia Pizza Beer. The lowest-rated beer of them all, and my white whale of awfulness, was something called Crazy Ed’s Cave Creek Chili Beer. It was, at the time, the lowest-rated beer on BeerAdvocate with a 1.69 star average; RateBeer scored it a perfect zero. And it was, and still is, the worst beer I’ve ever tasted. [...]