Despite symbolically pulling American booze off its shelves, the province hasn’t stocked its first pop-up Liquor Mart with Manitoba-made drinks.

The outlier is Crown Royal (the internationally owned brand is distilled in Gimli): on Wednesday morning, the company’s apple and blackberry whiskies were listed on the Westport Pop-Up Liquor Mart’s digital menu.

Brands such as Coors, Captain Morgan and Budweiser were among the 84 available items. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Corp. did not directly answer if any other pop-up products have Manitoba ties.

“It is a bit of a shame that there are no products featured, given how … there’s been such a focus on the government pulling U.S. liquor from stores and using that as kind of a platform to promote buying local,” said Colin Koop, co-owner of Devil

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