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Craig Street Brewing

Duncan, British Columbia, Canada

ActiveIndependentMicrobrewery
Founded
2005
Archive ID
TB-GTAXD2ZC
Last checked
Not yet checked
#BritishColumbia#Independent

Who owns this brewery?

Independent

Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.

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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

Craig Street Brewing pours in Duncan, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Owned by Lance Steward2005

    Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.

    What the sources say

    Times Colonist identifies Lance and Liz Steward as owners who expanded Just Jakes into Craig Street Brew Pub in 2005. Current 2026 ownership not independently re-proven.

  2. Owned by Liz Steward2005

    Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.

    What the sources say

    Times Colonist identifies Lance and Liz Steward as owners who expanded Just Jakes into Craig Street Brew Pub in 2005. Current 2026 ownership not independently re-proven.

Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.

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The People

Behind the beer

Lance Steward
Owner

Named owner; with Liz Steward opened Just Jakes in 1991 and expanded into Craig Street Brew Pub in 2005.

Liz Steward
Owner

Named co-owner with Lance Steward.

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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://csbrewery.ca/craig-street-brewpub/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.

    BC Ale Trail — brewery directory · BC Ale Trail

    ReferenceMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08
    Claim 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.

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Straight answers

Common questions about Craig Street Brewing

Who owns Craig Street Brewing?
Craig Street Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Duncan, Canada.
Is Craig Street Brewing independent?
Yes. Craig Street 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 Craig Street Brewing founded?
Craig Street Brewing was founded in 2005 in Duncan, Canada.
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