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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
It seems the Hack & Lube thread has become the new offfical CP beer thread, but I didn't wanna complain about beer prices in there.
Anyway, down in the States for the weekend and picked up a couple of my favorites for a whoppin $8-$9 per 6. They all had bottling dates in the last month (which is pretty ideal for IPAs). I picked up one the same beers, Firestone Walker Union jack, at liquor depot in Calgary about a month ago for around $25 and it had an enjoy by date of August 2016. Ya, not a big surprise as we already know this, but still find it crazy.
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It's largely a tax issue. Ballooning public spending + resistance to income and sales tax increases = governments eagerly filling the gap with sin taxes. Canada has reached Scandinavian prices for alcohol, which would have been an astonishing prospect 20 years ago. At some point you'd think prices will significantly suppress sales.