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The Ontario Craft Distillers Association has been rebranded as Craft Spirits Ontario. It has also created an online consumer hub, Field & Flask, with resources like events, a director of distillers and a blog.
U.S.-based drinks news site Daily Seven Fifty published an article on succession of independently owned drinks businesses.
Canada's low-risk alcohol drinking guidelines may be revised, based on a proposal from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction. The proposal, based on two years of research, would dramatically reduce drinking guidelines to two drinks per week for minimal to low risk, three to six drinks a week for moderate risk, and for more than six drinks a week a dramatic escalation in risk. Current guidelines, from 2011, define low-risk drinking as 10 drinks a week for women (and no more than two per day) and 15 for men (no more than three per day).
The Vancouver Sun wrote about Shelter Point Distillery's recent Double Gold wins at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
This fall in Lethbridge, Alberta, where the Black Velvet distillery is located, U.S.-based parent company Heaven Hill recently donated $6,000 to plant 40 trees, part of a larger sustainability initiative, CTV Calgary reported.
Calgary company TC Energy Corporation announced it will invest in a USD$30-million facility near the Jack Daniel distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, that by 2024 will recovering distilling byproducts to create biogas, which will be refined into RNG piped to a local gas utility.
Distillerie du Square, producers of Gin du Jardin (already on SAQ shelves in the province), is slated to open soon in Old Chelsea, Quebec. An article on the opening in Le Droit (in French) mentions the awareness-raising message from the Union québécoise des microdistilleries, about the need for a better deal for small distilleries with the SAQ, and predicts distillery closures without changes.
The Toronto Star wrote about Alberta women in spirits, including distiller Caitlin Quinn at Eau Claire Distillery in Turner Valley.
Eater Montreal reported that Delicés & Rhums, a rum bar/restaurant and distillery, was open in the city's Old Port district.
South Okanagan Craft Distillery has been acquired by Artisan Food & Beverage Group, in a deal that also includes Sonora Desert Winery in Osoyoos, B.C.