Archive record · Brewery
Fort Garry Brewing Company
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Founded
- 1994
- Archive ID
- TB-K8ZDX2K3
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Not yet mapped as a company, so the chain above it is still open.
From the record
Summary
Correction: Manitoba Historical Society states the modern Fort Garry Brewing Company was re-established in 1994 by Richard Hoeschen, continuing family involvement from the original Fort Garry Brewery lineage. Current local beneficial ownership claim first-party; 2016 asset purchaser legal entity
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Subsidiary of Russell Brewing / Russell Breweries Inc.2003 – 2016
What the sources say
Fort Garry became Russell subsidiary before 2016 asset sale.
- Owned by Fort Garry Brewing Company LP2016
Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.
What the sources say
Purchased Fort Garry brewing assets for $7.715545M; individual beneficial owners HELD.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
Current first-party brewmaster.
The Beer Library
Beers
Fort Garry Dark
Year-RoundEnglish Mild Ale
Official current shop; brewery describes classic range as available year-round.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Passion Peach + Guava
Year-RoundFruit Lager
Official description says fruit juice concentrate is blended with a refreshing light lager.
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Year-RoundStrong Lager
Style normalized conservatively from official description calling it a lager.
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Year-RoundLager
Official brewery history says launched in 2000; introduced year added below.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Cranberry Crush
Year-RoundOfficial current product page verifies name and ABV; style left UNKNOWN.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Fort Gibraltar
RetiredWinnipeg Free Press reports a limited annual Fort Gibraltar recipe released in cans in conjunction with Festival du Voyageur. Style not stated in source.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Cobblestone Lager
RetiredLager
Fort Garry supplied this custom recipe to Old Spaghetti Factory in Winnipeg; preserved as a brewery-made client/signature beer, not a separate brewery brand.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Cobblestone Pale Ale
RetiredPale Ale
Fort Garry supplied this custom recipe to Old Spaghetti Factory in Winnipeg; preserved as a brewery-made client/signature beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Middle Province Craft Lager
Pale Lager
Current first-party brewery page. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/hoeschen_rd.shtml for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim 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 Fort Garry Brewing Company
- Who owns Fort Garry Brewing Company?
- Fort Garry Brewing Company is recorded as owned by Local Manitoba beneficial owners since 2016; exact LP partners/equity HELD, which does not yet have a full company profile in this archive.
- When was Fort Garry Brewing Company founded?
- Fort Garry Brewing Company was founded in 1994 in Winnipeg, Canada.
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