What the Craft Beer & Spirits Boom Teaches Small Businesses About Opportunity
Over the past decade, Canada’s brewery and liquor industry has undergone a quiet but powerful transformation. What was once a tightly controlled, highly consolidated sector is now one of the most dynamic small-business industry clusters in the country. Craft breweries, distilleries, and cideries have multiplied—not because tastes suddenly changed, but because the system changed.
For entrepreneurs in any sector, this industry offers a valuable case study in how opportunity emerges when constraints shift and local intelligence is allowed back into the system.