The cost of beer has been going up in Canada, and faster than it did in years past, according to the monthly Consumer Price Index data from Statistics Canada.
And while large brewers and restaurant associations criticized a planned tax hike on alcohol that could have increased the prices Canadians pay, that excise tax is just one part of what is frothing up beer prices these days.
“The cans, the bottles, raw materials, such as the malted barley and the hops. Everything has kind of went up in price,” said Neil Reid, beer researcher and professor of geography and planning at the University of Toledo in
