Brewed in Canada: The Untold Story of Canada's 300-Year-Old Brewing Industry

Throughout the Crown prosecutor’s exam of Andrew Peller, the previous head of the Peller Brewing Co. in Hamilton, leader Justice McRuer rebuked the witness with the assertion: “You can inform me greater than you're telling. ” He have been requested what prompted the breakup of the Ontario Brewers’ organization within the fall of 1950. Mr. Peller stated he believed it was once because of a false impression among Canadian Breweries and John Labatt Ltd. whilst requested what brought on the misperception, the witness laughingly acknowledged it used to be simply over who-said-what and who-did-what approximately developing a value for beer or getting costs authorized. “You usually are not attempting to be transparent in any respect. you're treating it as a funny story. this can be no joke,” his Lordship declared. “You are the following to inform the reality, the total fact. ” Mr. Peller spoke back that he was once telling the reality and “to the easiest of his wisdom the misconception among Canadian Breweries and Labatt’s was once over asking the Liquor regulate Board of Ontario to approve a cost. ” Labatt’s obviously took a stand that costs to hotelmen have been too excessive and provided a lower cost than that authorized by means of the LCBO. lower than cross-examination by means of defence suggestions, Mr. Peller agreed that somebody had circulated a hearsay that O’Keefe Brewery have been liable for boosting the associated fee to hotelkeepers in September 1950 and O’Keefe’s beer was once then boycotted through the hotelmen. He additionally agreed month later “the decreased expense for hotelkeepers was once stabilized. ” Mr. Peller stated that when 1951, the LCBO set a ceiling, no longer a flooring expense on beer. “Previous to that everybody felt it used to be a ground cost so shall we no longer decrease our worth with out jeopardizing our license. ” based on testimony given the next day, price war between Ontario breweries is unlawful by way of Liquor keep an eye on Board laws. for you to implement the principles, the board has the ability to cancel or droop licences. W. H. Collings, leader commissioner of the LCBO testified that after Ontario beer costs have been elevated in 1957 they have been mounted by means of the board. “Raising of costs is completed in session with the Treasury Board,” he stated. there's “very little, if any, executive interference” with the LCBO. a quick provided through Brewers’ Warehousing stated there have been no elevate in Ontario beer costs considering 1950 and that, in spite of the proposed raise, Ontario beer costs may nonetheless be below in the other province. Ontario has one time table of costs for beer bought within the south and one other agenda for the north. tomorrow, the trial targeted round company stipulations in western Canada the place, it used to be realized, nearly ninety in keeping with cent of the draught beer and nearly fifty seven according to cent of the bottled beer offered in Manitoba was once bought via inns. an important distributor used to be Western Canada Breweries who have been managed by way of Canadian Breweries. sooner than the passing of the province’s present Liquor regulate Act in 1956 it used to be felony for breweries to buy and personal inns and to make loans to inn vendors. With the passing of the recent act, this tradition turned unlawful.