April , 2004
Volume 11, Number 1
Revised ordering
schedule for the week
April 5-8, 2004
and for the week of
April 13-16, 2004
CENTRAL WAREHOUSE
CLOSED FRIDAY, APRIL 9TH
& MONDAY, APRIL 12TH
(Good Friday & Easter Monday)
• PLACE ORDERS before
noon Wednesday, April 7th for
PICK UP before 4 p.m.
Thursday, April 8th.
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• PLACE ORDERS before
noon Tuesday, April 13th for
PICK UP before 4 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14th.
License Renewals
Effective House Policies
New liquor licences take effect
April 1, 2004. By the time you receive
this bulletin most of you will have
received your new licences. In the rare
instance where we did not receive the
required fees and renewal documentation by mid-March, a reminder letter was
sent out to you.
If you have not yet received your
license(s), please contact our office at
667-5245 to review the status of your
licence for the new year.
Effective House Policies can go a
long way to support responsible alcohol
service within licensed establishments.
Such policies provide formal support and
back-up to both management and
employees on procedures and practical
tactics to be used in different alcohol
service situations.
Key components of an effective
responsible service House Policy could
include various aspects on:
♦ Monitoring the door
♦ Actively promoting and marketing
food
♦ Pricing away from intoxication
♦ Server training
♦ Discretionary powers of staff
♦ Safe home transportation
♦ Setting a drinking limit for patrons
♦ Publicizing the establishment’s
responsible alcohol service position.
House Policies can be communicated
to employees and others in booklet
form, during employee training/
orientation sessions, and through public
signage to patrons, using posters or
‘table talkers’. In effect, once a House
Policy has been adopted it becomes an
essential part of the environment in which
you operate.
Will you be eligible to
renew ?
As a reminder, a licensed premise
must be ‘operational’ for at least three
months of the licence year (April 1 through
March 31 of the following year) to be
eligible for licence renewal.
All Liquor Stores will be
CLOSED - Friday, April 9th &
Monday, April 12th, 2003.
Liquor Stores in the
communities will also be
CLOSED, Tuesday, April 13, 2004.
This bulletin is published monthly and
distributed by mail to all Yukon liquor
licensees.
You can contact us at:
Yukon Liquor Corporation
9031 Quartz Road, Whitehorse, YT
Y1A 4P9; or
Phone: (867)667-5245
Fax: (867)393-6306
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.ylc.yk.ca
New or Change
Licences
The Board of Directors has granted
conditional approval providing that all
requirements of the Liquor Act and
Regulations have been met to:
• Wolf It Down Restaurant (Watson
Lake) for a seating increase to the
Restaurant Licence.
• Caribou Hotel (Carcross) for a
change in hours of Cocktail Lounge and
Liquor Off Premise Licences.
• Gold Rush Inn (Whitehorse) for a
meal service authorization.
• Whitehorse Elks
Lodge
(Whitehorse) for a Special Licence.
Suspension Served
A suspension order was issued
recently to the following premises:
Caribou Hotel -Cocktail Lounge,Room
Service and Liquor Off-Premises liquor
licences were suspended for four days,
March 16, 2004 - 19, 2004 for violation
of :
•sections 67(1)(a) & 90 of the Liquor
Act, permitting intoxicated person(s) to
enter, be or remain in the licensed
premises and permit a person to remain
in the cocktail lounge after purchasing
offsales.
Beer Trivia
Synthetic Corks
•Ancient Egyptians used to greet each other with the
salutation “Bread & Beer”.
•Over 4000 years ago in Babylon, it was the practice that
the bride’s father would supply the new son-in-law with mead
(honey beer) for the month after the wedding. Since the month
was lunar based, it was known as the “honey month” or as
we now call it today the “honeymoon”.
•Years ago in English pubs, beer was served in ceramic
mugs that had a whistle baked into the rim of the mug. When
you needed a refill, you whistled, thus giving us the phrase
“Wet your whistle”.
•It was customary in the 13th century to baptize children
with beer.
•Before thermometers were invented, brewers would use
their thumb to determine the right temperature for adding yeast
to the mix. This gave us the phrase “rule of thumb”.
•Today’s phrase of “mind your P’s and Q’s” comes from
the time when beer was served in pints and quarts. The original
meaning of the phrase was to be careful how much you drank.
It acts like a cork, you remove it with a corkscrew, but it’s
made of “plastic”. More specifically it’s made from “biomedical
grade thermoplastic elastomer”. Well over 1000 wineries now
use this type of closure on their wine products. The reason is
quite simple; it reduces the number of bottles of wine lost due
to “cork taint”. Industry figures peg the loss to “cork taint” or
TCA (trichloroanisole) at around 5% to 7%. Wineries from
Australia, South Africa, Chile and the United States are
pioneering the use of synthetic corks while the “Old World”
wine countries are content with traditional cork closures. For
wine purists, synthetic corks are not an adequate replacement.
In fact they would point out that in the short term the synthetic
corks may work, but nobody has tested them over much
longer periods of time.
With the synthetic corks many traditions maybe lost such
as smelling and examining the cork after the bottle has been
“popped”, but nothing ruins an occasion more than a “corked”
bottle of wine.
Liquor Haul Schedule
The table below reflects some changes in our freight
carriers to the communities and licensees enroute.
This delivery schedule is subject to change.
CARRIERS
ROUTE
A-1 Delivery
Dawson City
A-1 Delivery
Dawson City
MATCO Transportation Mayo
Systems Ltd
A-1 Delivery
Faro
A-1 Delivery
Haines Jct
Pacific Northwest
Watson Lake
MATCO Transportation Eagle Plains
Systems Ltd
Kluane Freightlines
Whitehorse
A-1 Delivery
A-1 Delivery
Alaska Hwy North of
Haines Jct
Carmacks
A-1 Delivery
Ross River
Direct Deliveries
Carcross
SCHEDULE
Pick up Thursday AM
Deliver Friday AM
Pick up Tuesday AM
Deliver Wednesday AM
Pick up Thursday PM
Deliver Friday AM
Pick up Tuesday PM
Deliver Wednesday AM
Pick up Tuesday PM
Deliver Wednesday AM
Pick up Wednesday AM
Deliver Wednesday PM
When required.
Daily
Pick up Thursday PM
Deliver Friday AM
Pick up Tuesday PM
Deliver Wednesday PM
Pick up Tuesday PM
Deliver Wednesday AM
Pick up Thursday AM
Deliver Thursday PM
The Yukon
Liquor Corporation
would like to wish you
and your family a Safe
and Happy Easter!