Ontario’s buck-a-beer program shouldn’t change anything for a local brew house.
The province will be lowering the minimum retail price for beer with an alcohol volume below 5.6 per cent from $1.25 to $1 by August 27th.
Full Beard Brewery Owner Jonathan St-Pierre says this will not affect them. St-Pierre says changing the minimum prices on the companies beer would change its quality.
St-Pierre says right now the only thing that will affect their prices would be if there was a can shortage or the price for ingredients goes up. He says in that case the price per can would be increased.
St-Pierre adds that if the government wants to help microbreweries, it should lower the taxes they have to pay to operate. He says right now Full beard pays 41 per cent tax.
The minimum retail price for beer in the province was $1 from 2005 to 2008 until the Liberal government increased it to $1.25.