nger be exempted under the amended beer compositional standard.

Unstandardized alcoholic beverages

Alcoholic beverages that are not subject to the requirements of a compositional standard are considered unstandardized alcoholic beverages, which may be labelled as “alcoholic beverages,” “coolers,” “malt-based alcoholic beverages” or other such names, depending on their composition.

Unstandardized alcoholic beverages are required to display a list of ingredients and must, like all other prepackaged foods, clearly identify the presence of any food allergen source, gluten source and added sulphites.

Industry

Over the past two decades, the Canadian brewing industry has experienced changes both in its structure and operating environment. The industry has been reorganized considerably through mergers, acquisitions and new microbrewery start-ups.

According to a report footnote2 released by Statistics Canada in 2017, beer is Canada’s most popular alcoholic beverage. Although average beer co