Dirty Money for Mediocre Beer
January 29, 2012 in Beer, FAIL, politics
Canada may be known for terrible mass produced beer (LaBlatt’s Molson, Etc.) but it is also home to some of the best (Including Unibroue over in Quebec) – this isn’t about them. This is about other people paying for beer you don’t want to drink in Ontario. Due to budget constraints the government cut off $1.2 million in annual ($8 million total) funding to Ontario Craft Brewers, the brewery trade group. It is already shocking that tax payers are spending any money at all on marketing beer (that if good enough should sell itself) but it gets far worse…
According to A Good Beer Blog about an eighth of that went to just one out of 50 breweries and counted for a significant portion of their profit – that brewery is more a government contractor than a beer company.
For a slightly more sunny (read: brewer apologist) take check out the original article in the Toronto Star.
