Just wanted to clarify something here about Canadians... So you put your milk in bags but your vodka goes into milk jugs?
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Bagged milk isn't common in Edmonton, 4L jugs just like this are ubiquitous in Alberta. That's more of a ~~BC~~+Ontario+Quebec thing. I can't remember if the Maritimes do it now.
That being said, I'm not sure if you could store vodka in a bag, with booze being so controlled. I suppose boxed wine is a bag inside.
I haven't seen bagged milk in BC either
Oh, maybe not then. I only know it was available out there at some point.
I have a vague memory of seeing bagged Island Farms milk in one grocery store on Vancouver Island but it would've been over 20 years ago. I only ever knew one family that bought it, and they were complete weirdos across the board.
I got a terrible hangover just looking at this picture
Just calculated if this good value.
4L of alcohol like this would be β¬142.80 in Ireland.
So the price in the picture is actually quite good value lol
You have us beat on beer, but Alberta sure knows how to distill chemicals. And also taxes most things pretty lightly.
This comes out to β¬34,19 to save everyone a click.
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.
I haven't had it dissolve plastic per se, but it definitely tastes funky pretty quickly if you're using the sort not intended to store alcohol.
That being said several popular brands offer plastic versions of their product and it's basically the same stuff.
its one of my things. I will drink the cheapest stuff that still comes in glass and that is my low bar.
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
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?
Do you not have liquor in plastic bottles? Itβs 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 Iβm not getting for less than $40 CAD
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.
I'm using to dissolve all the micro plastic I've been eating on the sly
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
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.
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
And the concern, as far as I can tell, was that it's too cheap for one of the umpteen ministers, and he felt that's unfair to other producers. Not the packaging.
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.
I don't know, if there's any nation that can't get it up properly at this point, it's them.
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.
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.
Which actually makes it even cheaper.
I can only assume when a politician says this is irresponsible that they want the price to be lower?
Things to do in Edmonton. Jugs of vodka and Mind Bender. Oh wait. Just jugs of Vodka.
Gone JUGGIN'
I didn't even know it came in gallon form.
It doesn't come in imperialism form, it is in libertΓ© form.