I got a terrible hangover just looking at this picture
Just calculated if this good value.
4L of alcohol like this would be €142.80 in Ireland.
So the price in the picture is actually quite good value lol
If you need a cheap 40% ethanol solution for some reason, this is a decent bargain.
I don’t recommend drinking it.
Dozer makes it. It’s good for two things, degreasing engines and killing brain cells.
Sick reference my dude
doesn’t alcohol kinda dissolve plastic?
Depends on the plastic, but most plastics are fine.
Hand sanitizer usually comes in plastic bottles and can be ethanol or isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Also you can buy high percentage isopropyl (and sometimes ethanol) at the drugstore in plastic bottles. Also many large bottles of liquor come in clear plastic versions.
I wouldn’t recommend using Plexiglas or acetate though. Alcohol will eat those up.
Which plastic? High-density polyethylene or HDPE(Number 2) plastic is rated for most common chemical storage. It’s used for milk and sulfuric acid. It’s also rated for up to water’s boiling temperature.
jeez. they should use that in plumbing rather than that stuff you don’t want to put over 140f
Just get a cheap decanter. Problem solved if you’re one to take it slow. But something tells me this isn’t the target audience here.
Well, everything stored in plastic bottles and containers tastes a little plastic-y to me. But alcohol will dissolve all kinds of things that water can’t, so I’m pretty sure this is much worse.
The thing to consider is: what quality of distillation comes with a package that’s just a little nicer than a plastic bag?
Every cheap clear spirit from an AB producer is proofed, or re-distilled 97%abv neutral grain spirit from a factory in Saskatchewan. The neutral grain spirit from Saskatchewan is very high quality, so, actually kind of impossible to fuck up. Some distilleries actually manage to, however.
Do you not have liquor in plastic bottles? It’s never the good shit, but cheap shit is often in plastic and this is the cheapest shit. As an American I spend about $29ish CAD on 1.5L on dirt cheap local bourbon. Maybe I could get as low as $20 CAD on vodka barely fit for human consumption for 1.5L. But 4L I’m not getting for less than $40 CAD
yeah. the plastic is crappy stuff. I won’t buy unless its glass myself.
I’m using to dissolve all the micro plastic I’ve been eating on the sly
Drink faster
I know its a joke but one reason I don’t drink much is because I have a hard time drinking enough, fast enough, for it to be worth it. I don’t like the taste of most alcohol and what I do drink I get sick of fast.
No we get pure ethanol for the lab in plastic bottles
That seems really cheap for Canada. Kinda surprised that packaging is legal too.
Alberta doesn’t really get involved in alcohol the same way that provinces that care about their population does.
Trust me Ontario government doesn’t care about its people, they just regulate the hell out of alcohol in order to milk the money. They’re doing the same with gambling
Trust me Ontario government doesn’t care about its people, they just regulate the hell out of alcohol
But I was promised “buck a beer”…
Folks, folks, folks, folks…
AB government advocacy for local craft producers: Drake no
AB government advocacy for gambling and cannabis: Drake yes
The liquor regulation system in Alberta is prohibitionary already. What changes would you want to see?
Drake is a Pedo.
Can you please consider using an alternate format like Geordi in the future to make that future a better place
My thanks for your and everyone’s consideration.
Edit: fixedlink. an excellent lemming pointed out i hadnt copied the article i thought i had. Should have been about wrong Pedo named Drake. Apparently theres more than one.
Aren’t those different Drakes? The article you linked is for some white guy, not the rapper.
Ahh fack. Thanks. I meant to change the article i copied but didnt copy the correct one. Thanks for being my editor, even if it wasnt your goal!
Much love. Ill go fix it with the correct article about Drake from degrassi and who is also the rapper, and the pedo shit he was caught doing that we know about
Edit for clarity(i hope)
Thanks! I had read the rapper drake articles so I thought I knew what you meant. Now I’ve learned about this other drake and like, wtf, are there no good drakes?
Right? We never had problems when they were just something from dnd!
Most provinces have a minimum price for booze, that would be a good start
Alberta does have minimum prices for both wholesale as well as on-premise liquor.
Based on this image, I just assumed that they didn’t.
That jug is 160 units for $50. $0.31 per unit is a little low.
Minimum pricing in AB, AFAIK, is regulated on the wholesale price of the product. So, producers are regulated, but retail stores aren’t prevented from competition, loss leaders, stunts, etc., which is what this might be.
Given that the tax money from alcohol/tobacco just goes into provincial and federal slush funds that proportionately end up being funneled into seniors benefits, I don’t believe minimum pricing really addresses the things that people think it does. I’m an advocate of directing alcohol taxes towards the harms it creates. But, try to find a politician who wants to grind that axe. I say this as someone who enjoys a good beverage, & acknowledging the pragmatic importance of offsetting the healthcare costs of alcohol abuse. I don’t believe that simply making a good more expensive is the wisest move on the policy side, if healthcare outcomes are the ultimate target.
I thought I read an article recently that they actually started banning this jug in some places.
Edit: I guess it was a different brand of 4L vodka jug??? https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-distillery-to-stop-making-4-litre-vodka-jugs-after-minister-raises-concern-1.6839392
I was recently in Japan and found a store selling a 4L bottle of Suntory whiskey. I was shocked by it too, thing was fuckin massive.
A small cup for small family
You don’t want to know how much that would cost in Ontario
Probably a couple weeks in rehab.
I think I just heard Russia abruptly getting rock-fucking-hard.
Perfect format for the shitty bars that fill their call brands with cheap shit!
12.50 per litre??? That’s premium price not value
Something like Smirnoff is about $30.00 for a 750ml bottle most places in Canada.
That sounds about right, I don’t buy much alcohol these days but when I did it would be around $12-15 for a 375ml of most bottom tier spirits. And I don’t remember any getting significantly cheaper/ml by buying a bigger bottle like you’d see with most other products.
Idk where you are getting your vodka, but low value brands in the US (Ohio specifically for me because oir state liquor board controls the proce of all spirits state wide) cost about $12 for a handle. I would agree that this is too expensive for what it is, but premium vodka like Titos or Grey Goose cost $37 for a handle, which is over double the price per liter, and those are USD, not CAD. Admittedly it has been nearly a decade since i was in an LCBO, but i know Canadian alcohol prices are al2ays higher than American ones, which is why you can’t take alcohol north across the boarder.
Will yes and no. The trick is to shop at the duty free stores when you are driving across the border to get US like prices on liqour.
They typically will have the best deals on alcohol in Canada because of the ancient prohibitionist influence on our liquor laws are avoided. Not sure if this loophole has been closed yet though
Canada has alcohol taxes I think. Also those ain’t real dollars, but their local variant.
For the interested, my estimate is that $34.28 of this sticker price is liquor tax.
Federal excise is $13.93 per litre of absolute alcohol. Normally, AB provincial liquor tax is $13.76 per litre of volume, but this 4L is probably self-distributed by an AWP producer. They get reduced rates that scale based on the volume of production. Here, I’d guess it’s something like $3 per litre of volume.
Things to do in Edmonton. Jugs of vodka and Mind Bender. Oh wait. Just jugs of Vodka.
I can only assume when a politician says this is irresponsible that they want the price to be lower?
Gone JUGGIN’
I wish we could get liquor prices that good in Ontario. The cheapest bottle of whiskey or any 40% liquor is at least $31. It’s outrageous.
Hmmm boat cleaner. Also, idk shit about ice and snow, but couldn’t you use that to melt ice off your windshield?
It should freeze near -20C iirc. Since this is Canada it could be even colder than that, but this could work I think.
