Brandon Brewing Company (1902)

The second Brandon Brewing Company, unrelated to the 1885 one: construction began in 1902 and brewing in 1903, and the Manitoba Historical Society documents it running to 1925, when the name changed to Premier Brewing Company. Two identically named breweries in one prairie city, seventeen years apart, is exactly the sort of thing that quietly becomes one brewery in a careless history — which is why both are held here in full.

1. 1902
   Construction begins

   A second, distinct Brandon Brewing Company.

2. 1903
   Brewing begins

   Brandon.

3. 1925
   Renamed Premier Brewing

   Held as a separate corporate stage rather than overwriting this record.

Sources

1. recordProbable

   Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/56/beveragerooms.shtml for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.

   Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

   CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
2. historyProbable

   Dated evidence as recorded in the source pass: 1902, 1903, 1925.

   Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

   CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 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.