Category 12 Brewing
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Category 12 Brewing pours in Victoria, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
The Beer Library
Beers
WILD IPA
Current / listedWild IPA
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Current / listedPilsner
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Current / listedJapanese Rice Lager
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Current / listedHazy Pale Ale
BC Pass 57 — beer added to an existing brewery.
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Historical / awarded 2024Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
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Awards
- 2024
Bronze — Quantum (Smoke & Wood-Aged Beer)
BC 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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Connected suppliers & bodies
- bc beer awardsAwarded2024Bronze — Quantum (Smoke & Wood-Aged Beer)
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited http://category12beer.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 Category 12 Brewing
- Who owns Category 12 Brewing?
- Category 12 Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Is Category 12 Brewing independent?
- Yes. Category 12 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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