 I see a lot of chat on the local Ottawa blogs about the new bottle return policy forced upon Beau's Brewery of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Some of the finer details of the following report may be off, but the gist is still there.
Beau's recently started selling their Lugtread beer in ceramic swing-top bottles. The deposit was $2 per bottle, redeemable only at the brewery. I'll also add as an aside that both the 750ml ceramic swing-top bottles, as well as the 2L (3L?) growlers are collected by homebrewers for their beer.
Anyway, It didn't take any time at all before they had the 750ml bottles for sale in the LCBO, and this created a strange situation where if you brought the bottles back to the Beer Store like anything else bought at the LCBO, you got 20 cents back for your deposit. But if you brought it back to the brewery, you got $2. That's quite a difference!
Then the LCBO declared that Beau's could not offer a $2 return deposit at their brewery - they had to offer the same 20 cent return deposit as the LCBO. And so a lot of customers went into an uproar over it.
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Another year has come and gone, and BSNBB is but a memory once again. Sigh. To recap, about a decade ago now a group of a half dozen or so brewers here in Ottawa started 
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