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Who owns this brewery?
From the archive
Pacific Brewers Amalgamated (since 1928)
VERIFIEDYESEvidence BChecked 2026-09-08
- Since
- 1928
- Direct owner
- Pacific Brewers Amalgamated
How Tally knows
The archive holds a dated, evidenced ownership event for Nicola Valley Brewery: Nicola Valley Brewery was sold to Pacific Brewers Amalgamated (1928). Each event cites its source, listed below; the current owner is read from the most recent event, and Tally does not restate it as the ultimate parent — that is a separate question.
Evidence
1 source
- Merritt Herald / Nicola Valley Museum — Nicola Valley Brewery history (accessed 2026-08-23) Proves: Louis Forschner brewery circa 1908; Brewery Creek site; keg delivery/returnables; spent malt to farms; Prohibition/speakeasy; Boyden, Richter, Biner, Pacific Brewers ownership; 1928 closure and 1942 fire.
The chain
- 1928Pacific Brewers Amalgamatedsold_to — Resolves held claim HOC-0035 ("ACQUIRED OWNER / CLOSURE"). W. H. Biner, a Kootenays brewer who had bought the Merritt brewery earlier the same year from Ernest Richter, sold it in 1928 to the Vancouver-based Pacific Brewers Amalgamated for $12,500 — a franchise-consolidation move within th
Connections
- Nicola Valley Breweryowned byPacific Brewers Amalgamated
- Nicola Valley Breweryacquired byPacific Brewers Amalgamated
What we still don’t know
No open research gaps recorded for this answer.