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Alberta at odds with its biggest craft brewery after substantial beer tax hike

  • Jack Farrell

    Jack Farrell

  • Canadian Press

  • March 14, 2025

A stand off is brewing between Alberta's government and the province's biggest and oldest craft brewery as the company faces a sudden 22 per cent tax increase under a new provincial liquor fee rate -- a rate that largely doesn't impact any other brewery. A bartender pours a craft beer in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 9, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Nam Y. Huh