That includes Ontario, which has an eye-popping C$80m ($57.7m; £43.3m) worth of US booze stockpiled, some of which will soon expire.
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Sometimes the best-by date refers to the packaging instead of the product. Plastic bottles in particular degrade with time and give you a whole bunch of microplastics.
Most booze shouldn't go bad if properly stored, but exceptions might occur for lighter beverages like beer and coolers.
Aside, I think the best-by date is largely a scam and if it benefits anyone it's either the manufacturer or grocer. I wonder how much perfectly edible food my family's thrown away because someone saw a date that made them feel funny
The best buy date isn't standardized. It's mostly legal protection bullshit.
Well, it is and it isn't
Understanding the date labels on your food
If the product has a shelf life of less than 90 days, it must have either a best before or packed on date with specific rules about how it's formatted. If it has a shelf life greater than 90 days, the best before date is optional. Also a best before date has no guarantee that the product isn't spoiled, but also may be perfectly safe to consume well beyond the best before date.
To further muddy the waters, there are actual expiration dates which must be included on very specific products. Mostly medical diets, meal replacements, and infant formula. This means that best before dates are not expiration dates, although most people use the term interchangeably. Indeed, even this article does because alcohol would have a best before date and the article is quoted as saying it's expiring.
Anyway, apart from actual "expiration dates" which are serious business, best before dates do seem to be largely based on vibes and woo-woo
Edit: And you know what else, this all Canadian regulations. I have no idea how that impacts an imported product. I'm assuming an import has to follow our regulations in order to be sold, but hey, anything goes in business
It's a "best before" date, not a "poison after" date.
It means they won't guarantee the quality of the product is consumed after that date.
Yikes buddy you gotta stop buying booze that comes in plastic bottles 😬
Low ABV beverages like wine and beer don’t take age well. Some wines can age in the bottle, but most volume is not made with that in mind. Beer has a shorter shelf life than many people realize. Spirits don’t age (well) in the bottle either.
It’s not milk, but it’s not a MRE either.
Spirits are fine if they are kept out of light.
I'm pretty happy our Manitoba premier, Wab Kinew, decided to donate all the money made from the sale to local charities.
I voted for him, and I certainly do not regret it. The guy has been the best thing our province has had for a long time.
I could have used a lot less public support from Kinew regarding Ford spending $70+ million dollars of Ontario tax payer dollars to place ads on US television. Otherwise, though.
Yeah, Druggie is a constant disappointment.
I found Wab's comments really disappointing. He sounded like a typical rural Ontario voter, buying the bullshit.
Yeah but we collapsed the trade talks for that $70M, then Doug runs around yelling at people to get jobs.
Fat cunt says fat cunty things.
In Canada, alcohol sales are largely controlled by provincial governments, which operate boards that manage the import and sale of most wine and spirits, giving them broad authority over what is sold. Only Alberta and Saskatchewan have a fully-privatised liquor retail system.
Privatized businesses are more concerned with profits than the public interest? Shocking.
Since restocking their shelves with US liquor last week, Nova Scotia stores saw higher than usual sales, said Terah McKinnon, spokesperson for the province's liquor board.
Seems like selling american booze is in the interest of at least some people.
As someone in NS, the interested customers were likely looking for bargains, and aware that the profits were being donated to charity.
Expire? Bottled alcohol expires?
Beer, canned cocktails, and basically anything below 30-40% abv does eventually expire. Wine keeps for a few years, if stored cool, but it also eventually goes bad. This is simply a byproduct of the chemistry involved in boozecraft.
surprised Dougie Ford hasn't just handed it off to his Mafia buddies to then sell.
ah who am I kidding, he probably has done a little bit.
I’ll take the expired stuff…
Very noble of you. Sacrifice for the common good.
Thanks! It takes a real special person to sacrifice like me.
All jokes aside it’s actually a real issue for them. It sucks that the country I live in picked a person who made these decisions. I really do hope they find a good solution.