Just wanted to clarify something here about Canadians... So you put your milk in bags but your vodka goes into milk jugs?
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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Bagged milk isn't common in Edmonton, 4L jugs just like this are ubiquitous in Alberta. That's more of a ~~BC~~+Ontario+Quebec thing. I can't remember if the Maritimes do it now.
That being said, I'm not sure if you could store vodka in a bag, with booze being so controlled. I suppose boxed wine is a bag inside.
I haven't seen bagged milk in BC either
Oh, maybe not then. I only know it was available out there at some point.
I have a vague memory of seeing bagged Island Farms milk in one grocery store on Vancouver Island but it would've been over 20 years ago. I only ever knew one family that bought it, and they were complete weirdos across the board.
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Just calculated if this good value.
4L of alcohol like this would be β¬142.80 in Ireland.
So the price in the picture is actually quite good value lol
You have us beat on beer, but Alberta sure knows how to distill chemicals. And also taxes most things pretty lightly.
This comes out to β¬34,19 to save everyone a click.
doesn't alcohol kinda dissolve plastic?
Depends on the plastic, but most plastics are fine.
Hand sanitizer usually comes in plastic bottles and can be ethanol or isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Also you can buy high percentage isopropyl (and sometimes ethanol) at the drugstore in plastic bottles. Also many large bottles of liquor come in clear plastic versions.
I wouldn't recommend using Plexiglas or acetate though. Alcohol will eat those up.
Well, everything stored in plastic bottles and containers tastes a little plastic-y to me. But alcohol will dissolve all kinds of things that water can't, so I'm pretty sure this is much worse.
The thing to consider is: what quality of distillation comes with a package that's just a little nicer than a plastic bag?
Every cheap clear spirit from an AB producer is proofed, or re-distilled 97%abv neutral grain spirit from a factory in Saskatchewan. The neutral grain spirit from Saskatchewan is very high quality, so, actually kind of impossible to fuck up. Some distilleries actually manage to, however.
I haven't had it dissolve plastic per se, but it definitely tastes funky pretty quickly if you're using the sort not intended to store alcohol.
That being said several popular brands offer plastic versions of their product and it's basically the same stuff.
its one of my things. I will drink the cheapest stuff that still comes in glass and that is my low bar.
Honestly I do the same. Even though the plastic bottles don't impart flavor, I'm sure they leech something nasty in there.
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I got a terrible hangover just looking at this picture
I think I just heard Russia abruptly getting rock-fucking-hard.
I don't know, if there's any nation that can't get it up properly at this point, it's them.
Things to do in Edmonton. Jugs of vodka and Mind Bender. Oh wait. Just jugs of Vodka.
12.50 per litre??? That's premium price not value
Something like Smirnoff is about $30.00 for a 750ml bottle most places in Canada.
That sounds about right, I don't buy much alcohol these days but when I did it would be around $12-15 for a 375ml of most bottom tier spirits. And I don't remember any getting significantly cheaper/ml by buying a bigger bottle like you'd see with most other products.
Canada has alcohol taxes I think. Also those ain't real dollars, but their local variant.
For the interested, my estimate is that $34.28 of this sticker price is liquor tax.
Federal excise is $13.93 per litre of absolute alcohol. Normally, AB provincial liquor tax is $13.76 per litre of volume, but this 4L is probably self-distributed by an AWP producer. They get reduced rates that scale based on the volume of production. Here, I'd guess it's something like $3 per litre of volume.
Which actually makes it even cheaper.
Idk where you are getting your vodka, but low value brands in the US (Ohio specifically for me because oir state liquor board controls the proce of all spirits state wide) cost about $12 for a handle. I would agree that this is too expensive for what it is, but premium vodka like Titos or Grey Goose cost $37 for a handle, which is over double the price per liter, and those are USD, not CAD. Admittedly it has been nearly a decade since i was in an LCBO, but i know Canadian alcohol prices are al2ays higher than American ones, which is why you can't take alcohol north across the boarder.
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That seems really cheap for Canada. Kinda surprised that packaging is legal too.
I thought I read an article recently that they actually started banning this jug in some places.
Edit: I guess it was a different brand of 4L vodka jug???? https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-distillery-to-stop-making-4-litre-vodka-jugs-after-minister-raises-concern-1.6839392
And the concern, as far as I can tell, was that it's too cheap for one of the umpteen ministers, and he felt that's unfair to other producers. Not the packaging.
Alberta doesn't really get involved in alcohol the same way that provinces that care about their population does.
AB government advocacy for local craft producers: Drake no
AB government advocacy for gambling and cannabis: Drake yes
The liquor regulation system in Alberta is prohibitionary already. What changes would you want to see?
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It's true both that the current government doesn't give a shit, and we don't regulate alcohol much, but I'm guessing alcohol use rates are actually not that bad. Stereotypically, anyway, the Maratimes should all drink us under the table.
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You don't want to know how much that would cost in Ontario
Probably a couple weeks in rehab.