{"id":14620,"date":"2018-08-07T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:25:05","slug":"buck-a-beer-returns-august-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/buck-a-beer-returns-august-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Buck-a-Beer&#8217; Returns August 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beer fans across Ontario can officially start counting down the days until the return of &#8216;Buck-a-Beer&#8217;, the popular $1-per-beer price floor that delighted people across Ontario until it was cancelled when the previous government abruptly introduced new beer price regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were elected on a promise to reduce red tape and put the people first,&#8221; said Premier Doug Ford, who made the announcement while visiting the Barley Days Brewery.&#8221;This included a promise to bring &#8216;Buck-a-Beer&#8217; back to Ontario. Today I am proud to say: Promise made, promise kept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ford, who was joined by Minister of Finance, Vic Fedeli, and Minister of Government and Consumer Services, Todd Smith, announced\u00a0that,\u00a0effective August 27, Ontario&#8217;s Government for the People will lower the minimum price floor to $1.00 for any beer with an alcohol volume below 5.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to do this smartly and responsibly,&#8221; said Ford. &#8220;We trust Ontario beer drinkers and other consumers to make their own smart, mature and responsible choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To encourage brewers to lower their prices, the Premier formally launched the &#8216;Buck-a-Beer Challenge.&#8217; Any brewer who agrees to lower their prices on or after August 27 will, for a limited time throughout the year, receive LCBO promotional considerations such as limited-time discounts, in-store displays on end aisles and shelf extenders, or advertising in LCBO flyers and newspaper inserts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The days of the government putting its hand in your pocket each time you buy a two-four or six-pack is over,&#8221; said Ford. &#8220;Instead we&#8217;re going to do what we said we would do and put Ontario consumers first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>QUICK FACTS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The minimum retail price for beer was $1.00 in Ontario from 2005 to 2008.<\/li>\n<li>In 2008 the previous government decided to ban Buck-a-Beer by setting a higher minimum price and today the retail price floor sits at $1.25.<\/li>\n<li>Annual indexing for all packaged beer will be suspended to maintain the $1.00 minimum floor price over time.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Buck-a-Beer\u2019 will not apply to draft beer sold in restaurants and bars or ciders, spirits and wine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer fans across Ontario can officially start counting down the days until the return of &#8216;Buck-a-Beer&#8217;, the popular $1-per-beer price floor that delighted people across Ontario until it was cancelled when the previous government abruptly introduced new beer price regulations. &#8220;We were elected on a promise to reduce red tape and put the people first,&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1624],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-buck-a-beer"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 17:13:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14621,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}