Archive record · Brewery
Bright Eye Brewing
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2019
- Archive ID
- TB-DCQKEA09
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
From the record
Summary
Listed in the BC Ale Trail brewery directory (checked August 2026). Independence is as-listed by that directory and has not been independently Founding year not yet on the record.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Bright Eye Brewing pours in Kamloops, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Mitchell Forgie2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
November 2025 Arpa Investments community profile explicitly identifies Mitchell Forgie, Bryan Craig, Richard Marken and Tyler Windsor as Bright Eye's owners. Source: https://www.arpainvestments.ca/post/celebrating-community-from-bright-eye-s-anniversary-bash-to-the-festive-holiday-season
- Owned by Bryan Craig2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
November 2025 Arpa Investments community profile explicitly identifies Mitchell Forgie, Bryan Craig, Richard Marken and Tyler Windsor as Bright Eye's owners. Source: https://www.arpainvestments.ca/post/celebrating-community-from-bright-eye-s-anniversary-bash-to-the-festive-holiday-season
- Owned by Richard Marken2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
November 2025 Arpa Investments community profile explicitly identifies Mitchell Forgie, Bryan Craig, Richard Marken and Tyler Windsor as Bright Eye's owners. Source: https://www.arpainvestments.ca/post/celebrating-community-from-bright-eye-s-anniversary-bash-to-the-festive-holiday-season
- Owned by Tyler Windsor2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
November 2025 Arpa Investments community profile explicitly identifies Mitchell Forgie, Bryan Craig, Richard Marken and Tyler Windsor as Bright Eye's owners. Source: https://www.arpainvestments.ca/post/celebrating-community-from-bright-eye-s-anniversary-bash-to-the-festive-holiday-season
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 292 Tranquille Rd, Kamloops, BC V2B 3G3Kamloops, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by Bright Eye Brewing
Site detail
Current BC Ale Trail brewery. Small-batch beers served from the tanks; current guide lists NA beer availability but no named brewery-produced NA product was verified.
The People
Behind the beer
Current Guild listing.
Current Guild listing.
2025 Arpa Investments explicitly identifies Richard Marken among Bright Eye's four owners.
2025 Arpa Investments explicitly identifies Mitchell Forgie among Bright Eye's four owners.
The Beer Library
Beers
Dark Cherry
Fruited Pale Ale
Current first-party tap list. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →KRISP
Pilsner
Current first-party tap list. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →PALE RIDER
Canadian Pale Ale
Current first-party tap list. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →HEFE
Hefeweizen
Current first-party tap list. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Strawberry Fields
Fruited Sour
Current first-party tap list. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →DRAGON LADY
Dragon Fruit Gose
Current first-party tap list. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.brighteyebrewing.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
BC Ale Trail — brewery directory · BC Ale Trail
ReferenceMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08Claim 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 Bright Eye Brewing
- Who owns Bright Eye Brewing?
- Bright Eye Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Kamloops, Canada.
- Is Bright Eye Brewing independent?
- Yes. Bright Eye 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 Bright Eye Brewing founded?
- Bright Eye Brewing was founded in 2019 in Kamloops, Canada.
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