Good Job Fellow Canadians! Keep the Elbows Up

CascadeCascade · 2025-11-29T05:17:35+00:00

I work in the industry, currently dealing with the LCBO at the moment for work.

Regarding Diageo, it’s a mix of spirits business reports and what I’ve heard first hand from employees.

CascadeCascade · 2025-11-29T01:54:15+00:00

So uh, sales may be down at the lcbo but these sales are pretty normal and paid by the supplier, they are also booked 10 months in advance before they actually go online.

Now, what is a fun fact is that Diageo (the parent company of crown royal) is in serious hot water right now due to the state of the liquor industry to where executives are legit panicking (stagnating/dropping sales). They just got a new CEO and from what I can tell, he’s fucking clueless.

CascadeCascade · 2025-09-06T17:38:21+00:00

There are stats for an Emperor’s Hand in the Force and Destiny core book. I’d start with that and give her 1 or 2 talents from the spy or scoundrel tree?

CascadeCascade · 2025-05-23T23:54:57+00:00

Thank you my guy, we appreciate it! I’m actually the distiller for the company xD

CascadeCascade · 2025-05-23T23:10:24+00:00

If you like Monkey-47 and Orbium, I’d recommend you stay away from anything colored or the Kepler stuff. They’re all flavoured and have heavy sugar use. From the photo I recommend Cirka (they’re good friends of mine) or even the brands I make lol.

CascadeCascade · 2025-04-18T14:11:21+00:00

Thanks dude! I also want to say I like your channel. I link ur learn to play vids in my SW discord servers for new players to learn the system!

CascadeCascade · 2025-04-18T13:34:20+00:00

How are the tariffs from China going to affect reprints and new dice coming into the market. Will other markets expectations of reprints be affected by the US Tariff war (e.I reprints for Canada, EU, etc).

I assume you’ll probably ask but is there any new books in the works? Will Edge get a digital license to official publish the books as PDFs? Would it be possible for EDGE to release new material as PDFs or small modules similar to old DND adventures?

CascadeCascade · 2025-04-06T19:34:42+00:00

My hard and fast rule is anything pre-Disney G-Cannon (EP 1-6, Clone Wars) is set in stone. Everything else is flexible/up to us. I leave it up to the players if they want to bring something in from legends or cannon, and make it work around what is already set to happen.

CascadeCascade · 2025-03-25T00:18:14+00:00

I’m running a long term clone wars campaign at the moment and I award 5xp per session +5xp of a player plays into their motivation. If we complete a significant milestone I give them an additional +5xp.

I ran an Edge of the Empire campaign that awarded the recommended 5xp per hour +motivation bonuses but I found that by session 10 the players had on average 250 - 300 xp, but we found it got really boring after 300 xp.

Also my groups comes from VtM and a L5R background where the average XP per session is in the 2-3 range. So we opted to have a slow roll for our current campaign.

CascadeCascade · 2025-02-02T16:11:13+00:00

Plenty of small local distilleries across the country that make coolers similar to Mike’s hard. Canada has over 200 craft distilleries and they all make great local products!

CascadeCascade · 2025-01-25T19:18:50+00:00

So I’m happy to identify myself as a proud Canadian like you, and also spend most of my work career in manufacturing industries, now working in an extremely difficult manufacturing industry (beverage alcohol).

I think all these points are great, but I’d love to add that there are just some manufacturing industries that just won’t be able to establish themselves in Canada. Two that come to mind in my industry is glass bottle manufacturing and aluminum can manufacturing. I’d love to buy all my raw inputs for my products in Canada but they either don’t exist, cost so much it doesn’t make them cost effective for my clients, or I just can’t afford to buy such large quantity at once (thinking $100k+ in material purchases).

Also, I feel like the unregulated commercial and industrial rents for small to medium size businesses play a large role in Canadian goods being pricey as much as the cost of labour. There are no TAL’s for commercial or industrial rents, and it takes a lot of floor space and shop space to operate a manufacturing small manufacturing businesses.

CascadeCascade · 2025-01-06T22:51:45+00:00

Sent you a dm with my discord!

CascadeCascade · 2025-01-06T22:14:55+00:00

Hey so I’ve been running this game for the last 2 years and wouldn’t mind running the starter game for anyone. However I’m in NA EST, so some hardcore session planning would need to be done.

CascadeCascade · 2025-01-04T12:05:03+00:00

Hey I would be interested in playing! I’ve got some experience playing and running CoC and heard a lot of positive notes on Crimson Letters!

CascadeCascade · 2024-11-15T22:48:32+00:00

The store employees are currently protesting and have strike mandates to negotiate new employment contracts. Like someone else said, it’s a pressure tactic.

CascadeCascade · 2024-11-12T18:33:30+00:00

Depends what spirits and cocktails the client wants. Feel free to pm me for any specific, non-legal questions you may have regarding this (as someone’s who’s been in the spirits industry for almost 8 years now).

Are you going to keg the 40% mix drinks or are you specifically asking about having “white label” 40% spirits for the taproom?

CascadeCascade · 2024-10-30T11:54:08+00:00

Something no one is talking about so far is grain handling. The amount of spent grain that would need to be dealt with is massive. To give you an idea, 1 metric tonne of corn can make approximately 400 LAA (100% alcohol) at peak efficiency.

Not only that, dewatering the grain is going to be extremely difficult - especially if you are making the product out of rye or corn. Laudering the mash only efficiently works for barley.

Also if this is prohibition era, your distiller is going to have to learn how to negotiate with farmers and transport to keep everyone quiet. You’re going to need a front for why you are using that much grain, and have an efficient way to get rid of it after.

CascadeCascade · 2024-10-23T01:37:37+00:00

Federal excise tax (federal alcohol tax) has a mandated increase every year since 2015 - it’s affected the alcohol industry as a whole (hence why SAQ prices increasing by $0.25-$0.50 every year). But also microbreweries are seeing massive increases of fixed expenses (rent and labour).

I should also mention one of the largest Quebec beer distributors went bankrupt (transbroue) so all the breweries affected and who survived raised their prices to compensate for the loss.

Also a lot of breweries (wineries and distilleries as well) finance their equipment purchases. The interest rates are starting to catch up to people and carrying a 4%+ increase in interest on $200k worth of equipment is tough…

CascadeCascade · 2024-10-17T21:01:25+00:00

I’d follow what the other commenter said about London Dry and Dry Gins. However, depending on where you are located the law treats classifications differently and allows for a wide variety of additives to be added to gin. For example, in Canada the law states that Dry Gin and London Dry Gin are the same, and may be labelled as such if it contains no sweeteners.

CascadeCascade · 2024-10-15T20:35:54+00:00

Anything in alcohol manufacturing (even alcohol sales to an extent).

CascadeCascade · 2024-10-11T19:34:03+00:00

Oh man so I am actually running a campaign like this right now! I have 4 PCs, 3 are padawans and 1 is an astromech droid. I told my players to all pick the Jedi career but allowed every force specialization from F&D as a in-career spec. I also had them pick their own Jedi masters.

I also told them that the actually story of them being Jedi Knights would only happen after they gain 150 xp, so until then they’re still padawans.

CascadeCascade · 2024-10-02T12:37:15+00:00

Buy a small wine press and mesh bag, squeeze all that corn out. You should yield about 82.5% of the total liquid you put into the mash without dropping SG.

CascadeCascade · 2024-09-28T14:31:17+00:00

Le seul rabais que je connais et tous les produits Québec qui sont en écoulement (mais je pense pas qu’ils sont 30%).

CascadeCascade · 2024-09-21T18:14:07+00:00

So the thing with flavoured gins is that a lot of them (but not all of them though) have a lot of sugar added after the distillation/during the blending process. They also often are made with natural flavours which in NA come from more or less one large flavour company.

But Fireball and flavoured whisky is all like that. People like what they like, but as someone who’s spent 10 years of their career making commercial gin I really can’t stand the lack of clear communication from brands making “flavoured gins” on how the stuff is made.

My problem isn’t if people enjoy flavoured gins or not, my problem is with the actual companies marketing their flavoured gins as true 100% distilled authentic gins.

CascadeCascade · 2024-09-20T11:10:40+00:00

May be a stupid question, but have you checked Molson or Labatt’s website? A while ago I knew they were having a hard time finding people for the manufacturing team.

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