Canada

GOBBLESS YA SON

I believe he got off scot-free which is part of the C-suite job description, zero accountability unless there's credit to be taken

Idk if this is just me but remember public education in the US making it seem so damn cool and good and special? It's like growing up, realizing Santa isn't real but watching people in their 50's break down like toddlers when you explain how it's all made up.

At the risk of being downvoted, I think the beer quality is pretty similar on both sides of the border, except in what we call the Pacific Northwest, in a greater sense - Cascadia, if you will.

I’m not saying good beer doesn’t exist other places, but in my book, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon form a sort of fantastic microbrew continuum, an example where regional culture transcends the national borders.

A beer from Vancouver or Victoria is comparable in quality to Seattle or Portland, but they collectively wallop most breweries in the other parts of both our countries. These places have a much more developed beer culture, too. Hanging out at microbreweries is so much more of a thing in that region.

We need a good replacement for bourbon though. No canadian whisky is a drop-in replacement

Edit: i know other styles of whisky exist. I've tried a lot of them. Nothing out there currently is close to bourbon. Not even the right type of grain to start with.

It's like asking for a champagne replacement and people suggesting red wines instead of other types of sparkling white wine (of which many exist)

My local beer place told me that its distributor can't get any more Unibroue beer now. We don't deserve their glorious beer given our bullshit, but it still sucks.

Moosehead is the only fully Canadian major brewery left, to my knowledge.

Everything else is owned by either Molson-Coors, Sapporo or InBev.

Molson Coors is a Canadian-American company with headquarters in Chicago and Montreal.

For me, that's enough to stay away from it, but it's not a fully American company, so I allow some leeway there.

The wine drinkers I know already drank Canadian wines before this whole ordeal

Canada makes really lovely wines. Vancouver Island especially has some of my favourites (also because I live here haha).

The Niagara region in ON and Okanagan region in BC produce some good stuff, or so I'm told. More a beer and whiskey guy myself.

Ontario and BC wine is okay. I prefer white and I find the whites to be rather nice; I can't really speak to reds, though I had a nice Ontario Merlot a few years ago. Can't remember the name, unfortunately.

There's so much wine outside of the US and Canada though. Chilean wine has pleasantly surprised me lately, like you say. I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of Australia. You may be able to tell I'm on a budget, lol.

There’s many countries that produce wine, skipping on the US’s contribution is hardly a blip on the radar.

and thinking alcohol is bad for you.

I mean there is a strong scientific consensus on that.

I can also recommend everyone to say goodbye to alcohol. Alcohol free beers can be quite good nowadays. The only taste i miss sometimes is a Whiskey where you can taste the smokiness but it isn't too strong yet. Still not worth the negative health effects.