Eighty-two years ago, on November 1, 1942, America's distilleries were faced with a second prohibition, this time coming from the War Production Board. No more liquor would be produced by the nation’ s distilleries, as the entire efforts of their industry was needed to produce war alcohol. It is one of the many ways that America's booze was affected by the World War.
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ReplyDeleteThat was interesting. I've often wondered why American beer has such a low alcohol content, I thought it was due to higher excise tax if it was greater than 3%ABV. Canadian beer is 5%ABV, beer stronger than 5% is taxed higher as are distilled spirits over 80 proof.
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I always thought the distilled spirits limits was mandated in some way. Any overproof stuff available either came home as duty-free, or is imported some other way; nothing local that I know of.
DeleteI do know for certain (well, as of a decade ago) that the Canadian gov department in charge of liquor tax makes you account for every milliliter that comes out of the still. Anything missing is triple taxed, per the folks at the Bacardi plant in Brampton, ON.
.Gov is also pissy about putting more than the labelled amount in bottles, taxed or no.