Beer Canada's favourite alcohol, wine eyes crown

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by julianw | June 9, 2008 at 09:51 am
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While Canadians continue to buy more beer than any other alcoholic drink, wine is becoming increasingly popular. But lest this become a zero-sum game, a winner-takes-all-battle in which the losing beverage goes home empty handed, it’s worth noting that Canada's overall alcohol sales rose by 4.9 % in 2007. Lets just declare this a victory for fermented liquor.

Beer remains the alcoholic drink of choice for Canadians in terms of both volume and dollar value, but its dominance continued to decline last year as consumers turned more to wine.

Statistics Canada says Canada's beer and liquor stores and agencies sold more than $18 billion worth of alcoholic beverages during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007.

That's 4.9 per cent more than the year before and the fastest rate of growth in sales since 2003.

The agency says the rise in part reflects a 1.4 per cent increase in the population aged 15 and over as well as a 0.9 per cent average increase in alcoholic beverage prices.

In litres of absolute alcohol, the volume of sales of alcoholic beverages increased 3.1 per cent to 218.7 million litres.

Source: canadianpress.google.com

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mikeygottawa
mikeygottawa
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at 23:14 on June 9th, 2008

julianw, It's always a pleasure to contribute to such professional works as yours (and your colleagues) on NowPublic.com !  Many Thanks for the exposure for my street photography.  Best Wishes!  Mike Gericke - Ottawa.


 

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joojanta
joojanta

at 03:44 on June 10th, 2008

Feel free to check out my other images at the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigkungfumaster/99890204/

Prost!

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xiaoxiaoh
xiaoxiaoh

at 04:13 on June 10th, 2008

A tester round at Granville Island Brewery

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cizauskas
cizauskas

at 04:30 on June 10th, 2008

What are the specific breakdown of sales and percentages for beer, wine, and spirts within that 4.9% increase?

Thanks for using my photo. Unibroue remains one of my favorite breweries.


Julep67
Julep67
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at 04:32 on June 10th, 2008

Great story Julian!  Thanks for asking to use my photo - to folks in Quebec, beer in the grocery store is common place but to we Ontarians were really amused by the stacks of beer at Costco.

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Captain Chickenpants
Captain Chickenpants

at 05:14 on June 10th, 2008

Sadly Sleemans Honey Brown (pictured here) is no longer available at my local pub.

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henrydalton
henrydalton

at 05:29 on June 10th, 2008

The top picture is of media entrepreneur Paul Cope enjoying a refreshing beverage at the 'Hooters' bar in Toronto. The classy guy.


Many thanks for including it in your article!


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unclescarMT
unclescarMT

at 05:54 on June 10th, 2008

thanks for inviting me to contribute my photo. I am looking forward to contributing in the future!

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kaiserz
kaiserz

at 06:26 on June 10th, 2008

thanks for the invite to contribute a photo or two!


Cheers to a good cold one!

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TYKM
TYKM

at 07:27 on June 10th, 2008

Check out my portfolio http://www.flickr.com/photos/tykm/collections/72157604095544371/

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iveka19
iveka19

at 09:06 on June 10th, 2008

2 weeks ago, i went to Belgium and bought belgian beers. I found this unknow canadian beer (for me) among others beers, i hope it will be as good as our european drinks!

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J.Cleveland
J.Cleveland

at 10:32 on June 10th, 2008

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lucie_made
lucie_made

at 15:01 on June 10th, 2008

Thanks for inviting me to use my photo, it's good to see sites like this that encourage people to seek out permission before just whacking up whatever photo they find on the web.

Lucie

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created1
created1

at 17:59 on June 10th, 2008

This was the largest beer glass that I have ever seen.

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jessofer
jessofer

at 18:50 on June 10th, 2008

Thanks for using my picture, I loved this beer!

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4N931
4N931

at 18:15 on June 11th, 2008

Great Article,
thanks for deciding to use my picture! : )

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leopolean
leopolean

at 19:18 on June 11th, 2008

It was as good as it looks. This was at a casino in Niagara Falls.

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roy.susan
roy.susan

at 21:25 on June 11th, 2008

kokanee beer, my favourite

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unityblue
unityblue

at 21:27 on June 11th, 2008

Perhaps a deeper look is warranted and would be interesting?  My progression has taken me from beer, to wines, now to fine ales, vodkas, and scotches.  Phillips, Swans, and Rogue are fantastic breweries with decent distribution, and there are many micro breweries with some amazing product.  My recent trips to FireFly in Vancouver and Bottleworks in Seattle were great adventures!

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John Griffiths
John Griffiths

at 00:58 on June 12th, 2008

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John Griffiths
John Griffiths

at 01:01 on June 12th, 2008

Ice Wine from Birchwood Vineyards near Niagra Falls, excellent stuff, very syrupy and really lovely tasting.

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ChiefJudy'sLittleBabe
ChiefJudy'sLittleBabe

at 02:42 on June 12th, 2008

One of the best wines ever. Only topped by Californian Zinfandel.

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PinchMe
PinchMe

at 03:58 on June 12th, 2008

Moved in spirit by the Toronto Marriott's attempt to provide better opportunities for young children through a charitable organization called the Children Miricle Network (CMN), I purchaed these lovely oversized colourd wine glasses at an employee auction.

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weilcela
weilcela

at 05:55 on June 12th, 2008

We loved drinking wine at special dinner celebration and especially Ice Wine as dessert-wine.This is one of my favorites.

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macjeep
macjeep

at 08:45 on June 12th, 2008

When I pick wines for friends, I end up buying the kinds that have fantastic looking labels. Couldn't resist this one as I know palaeontologists who venture into Patagonia to excavate and study dinosaur fossils on many occasions.

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tablemoonspoons
tablemoonspoons

at 11:00 on June 12th, 2008

we were road tripping across the USA... this was taken at a campground in stone mountain park near atlanta GA after we climbed the mountain, later in the night after more molson we saw a laser show!

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happyhippyj
happyhippyj

at 17:22 on June 12th, 2008

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el otro lado
el otro lado

at 21:19 on June 13th, 2008

i was walking around the neighborhoods around marche atwater and went in to this cool wine store. impressive selection. canadians sure do love high quality wines

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walter66
walter66

at 05:19 on June 14th, 2008

This photo was made on November 2006 in ONTARIO. I like Ontario wine very well. Some wine really can compete with wine from Europe.

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sugarcoma
sugarcoma

at 07:29 on June 14th, 2008

Vancouver Island is blooming with young new wineries.

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