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Faculty Brewing Co.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ActiveIndependentMicrobrewery
Founded
2016
Archive ID
TB-2V7KF6MP
Last checked
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#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

Faculty Brewing Co. Pours in Vancouver, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Founded by Mauricio; Alicia2015

    Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.

    What the sources say

    Faculty identifies Mauricio as original head brewer/brainchild and Alicia as architect behind the brewery design; surnames/equity not stated in captured source.

  2. Owned by Mauricio Lozano2015

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

    What the sources say

    Current public business-signature page identifies Mauricio Lozano as Owner/Operator; current Faculty first-party history identifies Mauricio as the brewery's originating brewer and active team member. Source: https://www.letsmoveforward.ca/

  3. Founded by MauricioDate unknown

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

    What the sources say

    Faculty identifies Mauricio as original head brewer/brainchild and Alicia as architect behind the brewery design; surnames/equity not stated in captured source. Pass source id: SRC-CA-0564

  4. Founded by AliciaDate unknown

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

    What the sources say

    Faculty identifies Mauricio as original head brewer/brainchild and Alicia as architect behind the brewery design; surnames/equity not stated in captured source. Pass source id: SRC-CA-0564

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

Where it brewed

  1. 1830 Ontario St., Vancouver, BC V5T 2W6
    Vancouver, British Columbia

    PRODUCTION

    Operated by Faculty Brewing Co.

    Site detail

    Current first-party site confirms active open-source Vancouver brewery; BC Ale Trail lists the current brewery at Ontario Street.

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The People

Behind the beer

Mauricio Lozano
Owner / operator / founder / brewer

Current public business-signature page identifies Mauricio Lozano as Owner/Operator; Faculty first-party history shows continuing active role.

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The Beer Library

Beers

101 Lager

Current / live menu

Lager

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110 Kölsch

Current / live menu

Kölsch

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250 London Fog Ale

Current / live menu

Tea-Infused Ale

ABV5.1%
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445 Galaxy IPA

Historical / awarded

Hazy IPA

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On the record

Awards

  • 2024

    Kölsch — 110 Kölsch

    BC Beer Awards

  • 2024

    Kölsch

    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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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.facultybrewing.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 2026-08
    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 Faculty Brewing Co.

Who owns Faculty Brewing Co.?
Faculty Brewing Co. is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Vancouver, Canada.
Is Faculty Brewing Co. independent?
Yes. Faculty Brewing Co. 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 Faculty Brewing Co. founded?
Faculty Brewing Co. was founded in 2016 in Vancouver, Canada.
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