Catastrophic: Trump aluminum tariff a brewed awakening for B.C. beer industry [Video]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 25 per cent tariff on Canadian steel and aluminum is fermenting a lot of stress at Burnaby’s Dageraad brewing.

“I’m worried,” co-owner Ben Coli told Global News.

“I’m worried about the future of the economy in general, and I am worried about what this is going to mean for my brewery.”

The problem? Most of the brewery’s beer, between 60 and 65 per cent, is packaged in aluminum cans.

A big price hike on every can is yet another cost increase Coli worries his industry just can’t take.

“The craft brewing industry has been really struggling for the last few years, we’ve had loads of cost increases and because of the economic uncertainty we’ve been facing we can’t really pass that on to consumers in terms of price increases,” he said.

“These cans could potentially be tariffed multiple times before we get them.”

That’s a factor of just how integrated North America’s economy …