Year-RoundAmerican Pale Ale
Original 16
Great Western Brewing · Saskatoon, Canada
5%
ABV
1989
Brewery est.
Molson closed the Saskatoon plant in 1989 and sixteen employees bought it rather than lose their jobs. The beer is named for them, which makes it one of the few flagships that is genuinely a monument to something.
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Who owns this beer
Great Western Brewing is recorded as independently owned — no parent company is held above it in the archive.
Not established
Ownership has not yet been established for this brewery. That is a gap in the research, not a finding of independence.