Canada and beer
On my way from Toronto to Windsor I saw a sign on the freeway about a brewery tour in Waterloo (or maybe it was Kitchener right next to Waterloo in Ontario). I had nothing planned for the rest of the day so I got off the freeway and found the above Brick Brewery. The tour was fun.
But what I really wanted to comment on is the prevalence of beer in Canadian society. The movie, Strange Brew, really isn’t that far off the mark. For instance, my hotel in Windsor didn’t have a gym so they gave me a free pass to the local gym instead. Behind the counter at the local gym was not water and Gatorade but beer on tap. I kid you not. Beer, at the gym… Unthinkable in the U.S.A.
After touring the Brick I went out for breakfast. The waitress took my order and then asked, “What kind of beer would you like with your breakfast?” Needless to say, that was the first (and last) time I have ever heard that question.
Down the street from Brick Brewery, indeed all over Ontario from what I saw, was The Beer Store. I just checked their website and they actually have 440 of these in Ontario alone. You walk in and there is nothing but beer for sale. Not individual beers, or even six packs, but cases of beer only. The place was packed with people piling cases of beer on massive conveyor belts that rolled your cases of beer to the check out cash register.
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