Tipping the bottle or glass will cost more today.

The federal excise tax on beer, wine and spirits was supposed to go up by nearly five per cent but Ottawa has capped the annual increase to two per cent for the next two years.

There is also a tax cut on the first 15,000 hectolitres of beer produced at craft breweries.

The hospitality industry say they are under increasing cost pressures through taxation and other factors such as higher costs for ingredients.