Analysts say the excise tax is just one part of what is frothing up beer prices these days
Calgary's Cold Garden Beverage Company prides itself on accessible pricing — but faces the same inflationary pressures driving up costs that everyone in Canada is seeing.
"The cans, the bottles, raw materials, such as the malted barley and the hops. Everything has kind of went up in price," said Neil Reid, beer researcher and professor of geography and planning at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Calgary craft brewery Cold Garden Beverage Company has said they've had to adjust pricing upward because of the cost of nearly everything they use.
Glassware and tables aside, the people who make beer are still asking for the federal government to look at taxation.
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