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Your ‘Local’ Craft Whiskey May Really Be From Canada

CanadaLew Bryson writes:

“Up until recently, Canadian whisky sales were in a gentle decline and as a result there was a surplus of aged flavoring whisky. With the meteoric rise of straight rye whiskey in America (between 2009 and 2015, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, sales were up a whopping 536- percent) it couldn’t have come at a better. A few savvy American entrepreneurs snapped up barrels of Canadian flavoring whisky and began to sell it, without much mention of its country of origin….”

Plainly, this origins issue is something the U.S. government needs to get straight. Consumers not seeing Canada on the bottle are being deceived, especially if the bottle carries language like “bottled in Vermont” or somesuch.

Read more at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/28/your-local-craft-whiskey-may-really-be-from-canada.html.

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