Da amerikanischer Alkohol in Ungnade gefallen ist, orientieren sich kanadische Trinker an den Einheimischen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/us-alcohol-pulled-from-canadian-shelves-over-trump-tariffs
Da amerikanischer Alkohol in Ungnade gefallen ist, orientieren sich kanadische Trinker an den Einheimischen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/us-alcohol-pulled-from-canadian-shelves-over-trump-tariffs
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*More from Bloomberg News reporters Christine Dobby and Sandra Mergulhao:*
Drinks tend toward the tropical at Gareth Tingling’s backyard “speakeasies” on Friday afternoons—a summer tradition he and his neighbors started during the pandemic, when indoor meetings were verboten, thus the Prohibition-inspired name.
In a twist on the cross-border flow of liquor a century ago, when the US banned alcoholic beverages and Canadian distillers helped supply the underground market, the portfolio manager and financial adviser stocks his home bar in Oakville, Ontario, with a stiff coconut rum he brings back from vacations in Florida.
A year ago, American alcohol was stripped from government-run liquor-store shelves in most Canadian provinces in response to President Donald Trump’s imposition of 25% tariffs on imports from the US’s northern neighbor. It seemed like a temporary measure at the time, but with trade tensions remaining, some form of boycott remains in place in all but two provinces. A year on, anti-US sentiment is rising again among Canadians tired of Trump’s musings about making their country the 51st state and his repeated attacks on key domestic industries including the auto and steel sectors.
Alcohol has been a frequent flash point over the past year. Ontario Premier Doug Ford dramatically emptied an entire bottle of Crown Royal—though slowly, with a plastic stopper choking the flow to a trickle—during a news conference in September about a week after Diageo Plc, the company behind the whisky, said it would move production to the US from Ontario. (Since then the province has reached a deal with Diageo that will allow the company’s products to remain on the shelves in return for investments in Ontario and a commitment to explore opening a new facility locally.)
Regulators federally and provincially have treated little distillers in this country absolutely horribly since we came out of our various experiments with prohibition 100 years ago so I’m really hoping this is the start of a real boon for them.
I was just in Scotland touring distilleries last week and even there they were starting to ask about how the landscape is changing and getting very curious about what our producers are starting to crank out.
I for one am glad the liquor store has gotten rid of the American swill. I say swill because the lack of American alcohols had me look for alternatives and the ones that I have found that are made in Canada (and one from Japan) are excellent, and make American bourbon taste like old gasoline. Even if the liquor store brings back American alcohol I’ll stick to the ones I have found.
I may have purchase 3 name brand bottle of alcohol in the past few years with all the local options these days in my area. Fortunately for me I went through a rye phase a decade ago because none of the local ones are making that yet but the local vodkas and gins and rums are great.
there is just so much quite good Canadian whisky being produced these days, both by smaller distillers as well as some of the big boys who have started releasing blends that feature more of the good stuff they formerly used only to provide a bit of flavour to the neutral grain spirits. even five years ago so much of the craft distiller stuff was much too young.