Archive record · Brewery
Belly Hop Brewing
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
- Founded
- 2017
- Archive ID
- TB-NY8G09WE
- Last checked
- 2026-10-02
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
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- Who owns this brewery?
- Robert Bilton (since 2019)Verified
From the record
Summary
Founder: UNKNOWN. Family-owned craft brewery and taproom in north Red Deer; first-party site confirms active brewing and rotating lineup.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Robert Bilton2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0316 ("undefined"). The 'family owners' now have a name: founder Robert Bilton opened the Red Deer brewery and gastro-pub in 2019, named for his family's homesteading history in the Innisfail area.
- Owned by Robert Bilton2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0316 ("undefined"). Founder of the family-owned brewery.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it is
52.31528, -113.84208
Supplied by the research pass; method not recorded
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Timeline
- 2017Opens in Red Deer
Edify (2019-08-27) lists Belly Hop as opened in Red Deer in 2017. Source: "three more breweries have opened in Red Deer: Belly Hop Brewing in 2017, Sawback Brewing in 2018"
The Beer Library
Beers
Pear Face Pale Saison
CURRENT / ROTATINGPale Saison
Current first-party lineup.
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CURRENT / ROTATINGBlack Ale
Current first-party lineup.
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On the record
Awards
- 2020
Gold — Trendy Beer of the Year (collaboration with Undercurrent, Red Hart, Red Shed Malting, Craft Beer Nation) — Hoppy Kveik Ale
Alberta Beer Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Alberta master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.bellyhopbrewing.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Alberta master, Pass 26 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 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 Belly Hop Brewing
- Who owns Belly Hop Brewing?
- Belly Hop Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Red Deer, Canada.
- Is Belly Hop Brewing independent?
- Yes. Belly Hop 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.
- When was Belly Hop Brewing founded?
- Belly Hop Brewing was founded in 2017 in Red Deer, Canada.
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