[Loyalist]

From government cheese to government beer.

And the sad part is that they'll still be driving to Quebec to get 12 beer for $12.99.

Leave it to government to come up with the most unworkable and counterproductive solution possible.

[The Great RJ]

Somehow I am reminded of the descriptions of the foul government produced “Victory” gin in Orwell’s 1984.

[ltc8k6]

Make beer. Sell beer. Arrest you for drinking beer.

[caver]

“If you like mass-produced Canadian lager”

No, I don’t.

[JimRed]

At least it is brewed in a real brewery- Moosehead- not in some newly built government facility. Real government beer would be created by committee and undoubtedly taste like it.

[Red Badger]

[lgjhn23]

I was born & raised in a Maine/NB border town...most of my dad’s family is from there. Back in the high school days, Moosehead was the prized stuff...a whole lot more potent than any of that cheap, watered-down, American beer. A couple of Moosehead, and you were good to go for the night!!!! As teens, we’d chum up to our Canadian counterparts, and do a little horse-trading, bartering, smuggling etc. to get our hands on the stuff....ahhhh, yes! The good old days...long gone now.

[neb52]

What next, Obama nationalizing Natty Light?

[Abathar]

Liquid bread, historians think it's what the Egyptians used to keep the slaves happy and working.

Nothing like a half drunk dependent little socialist looking forward to a cheap brew after work to keep them in line...

[cc2k]

Wow, so they have a government run monopoly Liquor store chain in New Brunswick, and laws that specify a minimum price floor. The stated purpose of the law is to reduce demand (and reduce sales).

And they are losing business to private enterprises that are just a few miles away, across a bridge, that don't have the artificial price floor.

And their solution is a private label beer that will always be available at the minimum (sale/promotional) price, which is still well above the price across the bridge.

Amazing.

[MplsSteve]

Canada PING?

[Last Dakotan]

Simple solution - brew your own!

[Jonah Hex]

"Eh, hosers, Elsinore Beer rules, eh. Take off!"

[BluH2o]

What ever happened to Molson, Labatt Blue ... the beer of my yout???

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

New Brunswick's policy of socially responsible pricing means that the lowest allowable price for 12 cans is $18.67. That policy is designed to set a floor price for beer in the belief that any lower prices would lead people to buy too much and develop drinking problems.

[free_life]

Socialist beer.......can vodka payments be far behind.

[razorback-bert]

Government cheap beer...yeeech.

I once had a taste of cheap Russian government vodka...oily film and taste. You had to be drunk to drink it.