Archive record · Brewery
Dead Frog Brewery
Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Also known as Backwoods Brewing
- Founded
- 2006
- Archive ID
- TB-KS5H63AA
- 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. Brand established 2006 from Backwoods Brewing; moved to its current Langley brewery in 2018.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Dead Frog Brewery pours in Langley, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Derrick Smith1998
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Current first-party says Dead Frog is owned, operated and built by Derrick and Donna Smith and preserves Backwoods Brewing as predecessor identity.
- Owned by Donna Smith1998
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Current first-party says Dead Frog is owned, operated and built by Derrick and Donna Smith and preserves Backwoods Brewing as predecessor identity.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- #105 8860 201 Street, Langley, BC V2Y 0C8Langley, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by Dead Frog Brewery
Site detail
Originally founded as Backwoods Brewing in 1998; rebranded as Dead Frog in 2006; moved to current Langley facility in 2018.
The People
Behind the beer
Current first-party says brewery is owned, operated and built by Derrick and Donna Smith.
Current first-party says brewery is owned, operated and built by Derrick and Donna Smith.
The Beer Library
Beers
Rolling Barrage X Anniversary Lager
Lager
Current official site featured brew. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
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Fruit/Wheat Ale
Current official site featured brew. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
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Awards
- 2025
Award — Peach Lemonade Sour (Sour & Fruit Sours)
Okanagan Fest of Ale
- 2025
Sour & Fruit Sours — Peach Lemonade Sour
Okanagan Fest of Ale
- 2025
Sour & Fruit Sours
Okanagan Fest of Ale
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
- okanagan fest of aleAwarded2025Award — Peach Lemonade Sour (Sour & Fruit Sours)
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.deadfrog.ca/ 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 Dead Frog Brewery
- Who owns Dead Frog Brewery?
- Dead Frog Brewery is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Langley, Canada.
- Is Dead Frog Brewery independent?
- Yes. Dead Frog Brewery 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 Dead Frog Brewery founded?
- Dead Frog Brewery was founded in 2006 in Langley, Canada.
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