My fellow inebriates,
Canadian distillers continue to step up, switching production from spirits to hand sanitizer. Check out this new product from Broken Oak and Latitude 55 distilleries in Grande Prairie.
Hand sanitizer is hard to come by these days, and every extra mickey of it counts.
You’d forgive me for getting confused by the packaging, right? I’m just a bear.
My fellow inebriates,
I’m all for speaking moistly during non-pandemic times. Being as absorbent as a bar rag, I’m often moist (well, damp). But our prime minister urging everyone not to speak moistly this morning? That was a treat.
Reactions on Twitter were immediate and largely positive. The moment was downright humanizing. But still, we had to make sense of it. Here’s our attempt.
My fellow inebriates,
BC’s government has included booze stores on its list of essential services and it seems shoppers agree. Booze sales are up 40% since the COVID-19 crisis began.
Not only that—buying patterns have changed.
Bigger is better these days.
Fortunately there’s plenty of booze on the shelves, so we’re not seeing toilet-paper-style fights. But there’s a slight air of panic in my local booze store as we customers position ourselves two metres apart and transact through a plexiglass shield. No wonder we feel like drinking.
Liquorstore Bear 