You can now buy a case of beer in Kuujjuaq, but the price will give you a hangover

The good news if you live in Kuujjuaq and you like to open a frosty brew every now and then: The remote northern Quebec town is allowing beer sales for the first time in two decades.

The bad news: It's $60 bucks for a 12-pack! Oh, and by the way, one case per customer per day.

The community of 2,400 residents voted in the mid-1990s to ban beer sales after a rash of alcohol-related deaths, CBC News reports.

But a 2011 referendum overturned the ban by a wide margin, though only a quarter of eligible voters cast ballots, according to Nunatsiaq Online.

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It's apparently taken until this month for the Fort Chimo Co-op to begin stocking beer. Customers can choose from Budweiser, Labatt Blue, Molson Dry and Coors Light, according to Nunatsiaq Online. Despite the prohibitive price (co-op members get a $5 discount) and one-case limit, sales have been brisk and the store ran out of Bud.

The co-op first began selling beer two days a week in 1979 but stopped in 1996 after residents voted to ban it.

But booze-fuelled crime and violence didn't stop, Nunatsiaq Online noted. Residents could still drink at the town's bar and lounge. The community, in the Quebec region of Nunavik near Ungava Bay, experienced 424 alcohol-related assaults last year, according to the news site.

"People drink beer," George Berthe, who manages the co-op's beer sales, told CBC News. "I think it's a bit naive to think they're going to stop drinking or slow down because it's not available."

Indeed, bootlegging is a problem in northern communities that are completely dry.

Northern communities historically pay through the nose for foods because of the high cost of flying in everything from oranges to canned veggies. But the jaw-dropping price of a 12-pack surely puts Kuujjuaq at or near the top of the list for the highest beer prices in Canada.

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A recent Calgary Sun item fingered Saskatchewan as the province with the highest price for a case of 12 domestic beer, $24.99, almost two dollars more than next door in Alberta, the previous titleholder. Newfoundlanders also fork out almost $24 a dozen, the Sun said.

A big chunk of liquor prices is made up of taxes.