At 10am, on January 18th 2018, three government agents showed up with the police to conduct a prohibition style raid at Fet’s Whisky Kitchen. The government inventoried, catalogued, sealed and removed 242 bottles of whisky from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society worth about $40k. The same raid was conducted simultaneously at The Grand Hotel in Nanaimo, Little Jumbo in Victoria. All 4 establishments are SMWS Partner Bars and the only whisky taken at each location were the Society bottles.
Every cocktail bar in the province has a few specialty products in their shelves yet only these 4 bars were raided and the only product removed was the SMWS bottles.
This website catalogs the attempts to correct this government overreach and further much needed liquor reforms in the province of British Columbia.