No more than three of any individual items may be purchased per day at BC Liquor Stores, although beer purchases are exempt.
Questions are plenty about the impact of B.C. General Employees’ Union strike at government liquor distribution warehouses will mean for B.C. restaurants and private liquor retailers.Local craft distilleries such as Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery say they will do their part to support businesses that have their supply hurting.
"Calling all private liquor stores, restaurants, pubs and lounges, we have got your backs. We can direct deliver straight from our distillery to your door any of our over 35 different liquors ranging from vodkas, gins, whiskies, to fruit liqueurs, brandies, and even Aquavit and Absinthe," the business said on Facebook.
"There is supply issues and limitations. There are products that we don't make though... liquors and all that kind of stuff you can only get through liquor stores. So this continued strike by the BCGU is going to really cause a lot of damage to our industry," he said."It has been too long already," he said. "There is a lot of damage that has happened in the last week just because of shortages. I don't see, frankly, an end in sight.
Okanagan Spirits CEO Tyler Dyck, who is also the president of the Craft Distillers Guild of B.C., agrees they will not be "able to indefinitely fill that void.""We are only allowed to be at 50,000 litres, so we have these punitive caps in place," he said.
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