Under the current regulations, small to medium sized manufacturers can request up to three tied house exemptions. In a statement Wednesday, the ministry said the goal of the rules is to “prevent market consolidation, thereby ensuring greater access for entrants into the liquor industry and subsequently, greater choice for consumers.” The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General tells CTV News that it recently engaged with industry stakeholders to discuss tied house rules and found the vast majority were in favour. We, and many others, have expressed to the province a general lack of support for keeping this arcane rule in place,” he added. “It’s long overdue for a review and industry consultation. “We would warmly welcome the modernization of this policy, especially in the current craft beer climate with shrinking market share and increasing costs,” Harrison Stoker, the group’s chief growth officer, wrote in an email to CTV News on Tuesday. since 2018, four years after Bomber was established by teammates on a local beer league hockey team by the same name.īut as a tied house, which is defined by B.C.’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch as “a business that has an association (financial or otherwise) with a liquor manufacturer or its agent that is likely to lead to its products being favoured,” Freehouse can only sell Bomber products at three of its 11 bars in Vancouver. The company has owned the brewery at 1488 Adanac St.

A near decade-old craft brewery in East Vancouver is being sold, again, and its current owners says B.C.’s “archaic” regulatory framework is partially to blame.įreehouse Collective, formerly known as The Donnelly Group, says it recently listed Bomber Brewing for sale because there isn’t enough economic incentive for a hospitality group to own a venture of this kind due to the province’s tied-house policy.

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