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March 31, 2010

March 31, 2010 by Graeme MacKay

I think many people saw this day coming. One of Canada’s biggest beer companies, really a subsidiary of a much larger global monolith, has pulled of what it essentially set out to do from the get go and take over one of those pesky buck-a-beer breweries and shut it down for good. By shutting it down, essentially removing all the Burlington Street hardware and equipment making it impossible for anyone else to come in and start up their own cheap beer company. Simply put, Lakeport’s success was biting into the big guy Labatt’s profits, and they certainly didn’t want to see some upstart beer maker become a new thorn in their side. One down, more to come, and Canadians will be back to the days of over priced swill produced by 2 or 3 beer giants. The cartoon I really wanted to do was the end of a typical vision Hamiltonian’s would see say, on a hot Sunday afternoon in July. Too exploitative of local stereotypes, it seems. So while it may not grace the editorial page of the City’s hometown daily it’s here in its sketch form for my loyal readers:

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: Beer, brewery, commentary, Hamilton, Labatts, Lakeport
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