Backcountry Brewing
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Backcountry Brewing pours in Squamish, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
The Beer Library
Beers
Widowmaker
Current / multi-awardHazy IPA
BC Pass 57 — beer added to an existing brewery.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Trailbreaker Pale Ale
AwardedNorth American Pale Ale
BC Pass 57 — beer added to an existing brewery.
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AwardedGerman Pale Lager
BC Pass 57 — beer added to an existing brewery.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →The Floor is Guava
AwardedSpecialty Fruit Beer
BC Pass 57 — beer added to an existing brewery.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Might As Well Go For A Soda
Awarded 2024Fruited Sour
BC Pass 57 — beer added to an existing brewery.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2025
Award — Widowmaker (Juicy Pale / NEIPA & IPA)
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2025
Award — Widowmaker (Hazy IPA)
Canada Beer Cup
- 2024
Award — Might As Well Go For A Soda (Fruited Sour)
Canada Beer Cup
- 2023
Award — Widowmaker (Hazy IPA)
BC Beer Awards
- 2022
Award — Widowmaker (Hazy IPA)
BC Beer Awards
- 2022
Award — The Floor is Guava (Specialty Fruit Beer)
BC Beer Awards
- 2017
Award — Trailbreaker Pale Ale (North American Pale Ale)
BC Beer Awards
- 2017
Award — Ridgerunner Pilsner (German Pale Lager)
BC Beer Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
3 organisations
Connected suppliers & bodies
- bc beer awardsAwarded2022Award — Widowmaker (Hazy IPA)
- bc beer awardsAwarded2023Award — Widowmaker (Hazy IPA)
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2025Award — Widowmaker (Juicy Pale / NEIPA & IPA)
- canada beer cupAwarded2025Award — Widowmaker (Hazy IPA)
- bc beer awardsAwarded2017Award — Trailbreaker Pale Ale (North American Pale Ale)
- bc beer awardsAwarded2017Award — Ridgerunner Pilsner (German Pale Lager)
- bc beer awardsAwarded2022Award — The Floor is Guava (Specialty Fruit Beer)
- canada beer cupAwarded2024Award — Might As Well Go For A Soda (Fruited Sour)
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.backcountrybrewing.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
BC Ale Trail — brewery directory · BC Ale Trail
ReferenceMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08Reviewed 2026-08-19
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.
Straight answers
Common questions about Backcountry Brewing
- Who owns Backcountry Brewing?
- Backcountry Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada.
- Is Backcountry Brewing independent?
- Yes. Backcountry Brewing is recorded as independent, with no parent company. Independence is recorded as the brewery states it; where a stake is a minority holding or joint venture, this archive leaves it unmapped rather than calling it ownership.
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