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Headed to Alberta , is there a limit on beverages I can bring? Whiskey and or beer? Thanks

I believe it is one liter, duty free.....after that you'll pay for it.


Personally I just buy it up there....makes the border crossing easier.

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Smart way to look at things.

My bad, had some residents putting in orders already..

I have a lot of clients that drink MDG--I tell them to bring as much as they are going to need but make sure you declare it. They'll bring quite a few cases and get it landed with duty at my place for about $25 a case total.
MDG at the local liquour outlet is about $49 a case. I think it holds true for whiskey too.

We must be gettin old cause they always bring too much.

Yup , 1 liter of booze or a case of beer.

Yep. I like to be able to answer all their short, obligatory questions, with a short "No".


Makes things go faster.

The duty isn't that much, and if they don't ask and you don't tell....

My wife and I went up last fall to waterfowl hunt with friends, who asked us to bring up a bunch of Coors beer. We brought eight 30-packs in the two big coolers we brought along for ducks and geese. The Canadian customs folks only asked about guns, not alcohol, but even if they had asked the duty would only have been a few bucks.

Right on. John I've followed your writing for years, since I was a kid, much respect to you, hopefully you don't get me throwed in the clink. Grin

Though I am not a drinker for the last thirty years, I seem to recall a company in Canada selling Seagram's VO and anther one called Canadian Club. I think they passed as whiskey, and you can buy them in Canada.

The thing I found difficult to buy in Canada is bourbon. Lots of blended and Canadian Whiskeys,but Makers Mark is the only bourbon I could find far north.


I was able to choke down some other stuff.......

A few of us did find a few other brands of whiskey, even some spelled whisky, in the Montreal area before taking off on a caribou hunt further north in Quebec.

While this thread is about whiskey, I should mention that the reason my Alberta friends wanted so much Coors beer (aside from the fact that they'd discovered they liked it) was that a 12-pack in Alberta cost just about as a much as a 30-pack in Montana.

Makers will do just right....

I guess I get it if you're a bourbon drinker, but why would you want to take mass market American beer to the land of Labatts (and a lot of other good beers!)

Try Alberta Springs Sipping Whiskey, if they still make it.

My pard brought some back, not too bad

Any notion of whisky being available in Canada brings to mind the old question, "Are there cows in Texas?"

I have always found it amazing that so much whiskey is made in Canada, yet it is cheaper to import it than to buy it locally. Can anyone say GOVERNMENT RIP OFF!!?

There's some real good Canadian rye in Canada. I remember one night after we came out of the hills...well, I almost remember it....