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Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing)

Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada

ActiveOwnership unknown
Founded
2015
Archive ID
TB-J62J2A0P
Last checked
Not yet checked

Who owns this brewery?

Apex Predator Holdings Inc. (trademark owner)

Not yet mapped as a company, so the chain above it is still open.

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From the record

Summary

Official Apex site describes active rural Yellowhead County brewery; CIPO documents Apex predator trademark ownership and 2018 name change from Bench Creek Brewing Inc. To Apex Predator Holdings Inc. Legal entity: Apex Predator Holdings Inc.; formerly Bench Creek Brewing Inc. Production evidence: PRODUCTION Brand/legal-name lineage verified; corporate operating details partial. Owner as recorded: Apex Predator Holdings Inc. (trademark owner). Status as recorded: ACTIVE.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Where it is

53.62624, -116.53406

Supplied by the research pass; method not recorded

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 2015-09-02
    Brewing by at least 2 September 2015 (earliest beer listed on Untappd)

    abbeer.ca listing (as Apex Predator Brewing) earliest batch Sept 2 2015. apexpredatorbrewing.com now redirects to apexbrewing.ca (rename to Apex Brewing); new site has no dates. Consistent with record founded 2015. Source: "Inaugural Batch: Wednesday, September 2, 2015"

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The Beer Library

Beers

Mountain Park

Smoked Imperial Porter

ABV7.5%

Alberta brewery database records 10th-anniversary 2025 release and ABV. (CURRENT/RECENT) [Canada Pass 102]

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Travel Guide

Plan a visit

Address53527 Range Road 181A, Yellowhead County, Alberta T7E 3T7
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On the record

Awards

  • 2023

    Bronze — IPA — White Raven

    Alberta Beer Awards

  • 2021

    Silver — Pale Ale/Bitter — Dead Woodsman

    Alberta Beer Awards

  • 2021

    Silver — Double/Imperial IPA — DIPA

    Alberta Beer Awards

Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.

What the archive does not know yet

Open questions

  • UnknownpeopleFounder not established. Searched 2026-09-30 (brewery site, Alberta press, tourism and beer directories). Andrew Kulynych is named as owner, and the first brewery is described as built in 'owner Andrew's back yard' about 2015; no source says he founded it.
  • DisputedstatusStatus DISPUTED. This record says ACTIVE. On 2026-10-01 abbeer.ca listed Apex Brewing as currently open with weekly hours and Untappd (https://untappd.com/ApexBrewingAB) showed a check-in dated that day; Yelp, TripAdvisor and the Made in Canada Directory describe it as permanently closed. No dated news or statement from the brewery was found either way. Not changed.

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Sources

  1. peopleUnknown

    Founder not established. Searched 2026-09-30 (brewery site, Alberta press, tourism and beer directories). Andrew Kulynych is named as owner, and the first brewery is described as built in 'owner Andrew's back yard' about 2015; no source says he founded it.

    Tally's Beer Universe founder search, Alberta, 30 September 2026 · Tally's Beer Universe · 2026-09-30

    Research logMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-09-30
    Claim last checked 2026-09-30
  2. statusDisputed

    Status DISPUTED. This record says ACTIVE. On 2026-10-01 abbeer.ca listed Apex Brewing as currently open with weekly hours and Untappd (https://untappd.com/ApexBrewingAB) showed a check-in dated that day; Yelp, TripAdvisor and the Made in Canada Directory describe it as permanently closed. No dated news or statement from the brewery was found either way. Not changed.

    Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing): page cited for its status · abbeer.ca

    SecondaryLow reliabilitySource accessed 2026-10-01
    Claim last checked 2026-10-01

Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.

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Straight answers

Common questions about Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing)

Who owns Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing)?
Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing) is recorded as owned by Apex Predator Holdings Inc. (trademark owner), which does not yet have a full company profile in this archive.
When was Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing) founded?
Apex Brewing (formerly Apex Predator Brewing) was founded in 2015 in Yellowhead County, Canada.
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