Port Arthur Curling Club and Wendy Darcis

Crystal: It just "a Thunder Bay thing." Wendy Darcis, who tends bar at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Ont., says Crystal is a favourite with regulars, but visitors from out of town also often ask to try it, according to CBC. Crystal is a European-style lager that about as fancy as a Kenora dinner jacket. It has been forever and ever," said Wendy Darcis, who tended bar at the Port Arthur Curling Club for 37 years. "If you are a Crystal drinker, you are a Crystal drinker, and they're die hard." The working-class lager with the waterfall on the label is often requested by visitors who can't get the brew in their part of the country, she said, and for her own brother, who moved to Calgary years ago, a cold Crystal is part of his homecoming routine. Essentially it a budget brew — albeit one with a surprisingly interesting history. At the time brewers in the province were limited to making low-alcohol "temperance beers," but they could produce a stronger beverage for the export market, a Labatt spokesperson explained in an email. Jazz-age creation Labatt started making Crystal in 1921 as part of its plan to weather Ontario prohibition years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.