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Canadian Drinks to Bring to a Party
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items From Halifax-made probiotic sodas to the Caesar kit behind Canada's national cocktail 20 Canadian drinks to bring to your next party, picked by an Ottawa mom who takes her pop seriously. 🇨🇦
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Soda that loves you back — zero sugar with probiotics, made by two brothers in Halifax. I grab these when I want the fizz without the crash, and the cream soda tastes like childhood.
Cove Cream Soda
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The fun one. Blue raspberry tastes like a slushie but it's zero sugar with probiotics — my kids think they're getting away with something. Made in Nova Scotia, which makes me love it more.
Cove Soda Framboise bleue
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Raspberry is the sleeper hit of the Cove lineup — not too sweet, super refreshing. I bring these to BBQs and someone always asks where they're from. (Halifax!)
Cove Raspberry Soda
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Tastes like a red-white-and-blue popsicle in a can. Zero sugar, probiotics, and the kids go feral for it. Nostalgia without the sugar crash.
Cove Ice Pop Soda
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The 90s called and I answered. Clearly Canadian is BACK — the sparkling water I grew up on, now in zero sugar wild cherry. Born in BC. Instant party nostalgia.
Clearly Canadian zero sucre cerise sauvage, 6x355ml canettes
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Glass bottle, real strawberry flavour, straight out of BC. These look so pretty in a cooler full of ice — instant party upgrade.
Clearly Canadian Sparkling Water Summer Strawberry, 325ml Bottle
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London, Ontario's own since 1969. Pop Shoppe is pure Canadiana — the stubby bottles, the cream soda that tastes like a float. Bring a 12-pack and watch the millennials lose their minds.
Cream Soda
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Created in Toronto in 1904 — the most Canadian ginger ale that ever existed. Every party needs a 12-pack of this; it's the mixer, the tummy-soother, the everything.
Canada Dry® Ginger Ale 355 mL Cans, 12 Pack
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The holiday one. Cranberry ginger ale only shows up for the season and it makes the best punch base — ginger ale + cranberry juice + frozen cranberries. You're welcome.
Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale 12X355ML
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You cannot have a party in Canada without Caesar fixings. The Caesar was invented in Calgary in 1969 — it's our national cocktail and Clamato is the non-negotiable base.
Mott's Clamato Original, 1.89L
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For the Caesar people who mean it. Extra spicy Clamato + vodka + a pickle spear = the only correct brunch drink. Buy both bottles, thank me later.
Mott's Clamato Extra Spicy 1.89L
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Small-batch, made in Canada, and Canada's first Ocean Wise–recommended Caesar mix. The dill pickle one is a game-changer — basically a Caesar and a pickle had a beautiful baby.
Walter Craft Caesar Mix Dill Pickle, 946ml
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This one's a deep cut — an Italian-style chinotto bottled in Ontario since the late 1950s. Bitter, citrusy, grown-up soda. Bring it and look like the most interesting person at the party.
Brio Chinotto Italian Soda
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Kelowna, BC's finest. SunRype cranberry is my go-to holiday punch base — a jug of this + ginger ale + frozen berries and you're done.
SunRype Cranberry Cocktail 1.89 L
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Lassonde, Quebec. Low-acid apple juice kids actually drink without complaint — and it makes a killer base for hot mulled cider in the slow cooker. Simmer with cinnamon sticks.
Allen's Pure Apple Juice Low Acid 1.89 L
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McIntosh apples, Quebec. This is the good stuff — 100% pure, tastes like biting into the apple. I use it for cider and the kids just drink it straight.
Rougemont 100% Pure McIntosh Apple Juice 2 L
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Quebec-made juice boxes for the littles at the party — watermelon apple is the flavour kids actually finish. Bring a pack and you're the hero parent.
Oasis HydraFruit Watermelon Apple Fruit Juice Boxes 8 x 200 ml
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Toronto's first urban cidery, 100% Ontario apples. A proper craft cider for the cooler — giftable, local, and way more interesting than the usual. (LCBO run required.)
Brickworks Ciderhouse Batch 1904 Cider
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The gift bottle. Single malt from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia — award-winning, gorgeous, and nobody expects Canadian single malt to be this good. For the whisky person who has everything.
Glen Breton Rare Canadian Single Malt Whisky
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Grimsby, Ontario. Smooth, honeyed, dangerously easy-drinking — the crowd-pleaser whisky gift. Looks fancy, doesn't break the bank.
Forty Creek Barrel Select Whisky