Archive record · Brewery
Copper Brewing Company
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2019
- Archive ID
- TB-BJR77GED
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
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- Who owns this brewery?
- Sean White and Darla Ariss (since 2019)Verified
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. Current official site says every drop is brewed onsite and identifies Sean White and Darla Ariss as independent Kelowna owners. Opened 2019. Production evidence: PRODUCTION Independent local owners. Owner as recorded: Sean White; Darla Ariss. Status as recorded: ACTIVE.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Copper Brewing Co. Pours in Kelowna, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Sean White; Darla Ariss2019
Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.
What the sources say
Current first-party site explicitly identifies both as owners/founders.
- Founded by Sean White2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0155 ("Founders / independent owners"). A home-brewing engineer (garage batches from age 18) who founded Copper with wine-industry businesswoman Darla Ariss after they met at a mutual friend's wedding; opened in Kelowna's Landmark District, August 2019.
- Owned by Sean White2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0155 ("Founders / independent owners"). Co-owner.
- Founded by Darla Ariss2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0157 ("Founders / independent owners"). Co-founder; the taproom's nickname is 'Darla's living room.'
- Owned by Darla Ariss2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0157 ("Founders / independent owners"). Co-owner.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 1851 Kirschner Rd #102, Kelowna, BCKelowna, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by Copper Brewing
Site detail
Current Kelowna/West Kelowna Ale Trail brewery.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://copperbrewingco.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 Copper Brewing Company
- Who owns Copper Brewing Company?
- Copper Brewing Company is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Kelowna, Canada.
- Is Copper Brewing Company independent?
- Yes. Copper Brewing Company 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 Copper Brewing Company founded?
- Copper Brewing Company was founded in 2019 in Kelowna, Canada.
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