Half Pints Brewing Company
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada · Est. 2006
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Manitoba's craft trailblazer, founded 2006, and the brewery every other one in this province followed. It closed in May 2025 — down from fourteen staff to two, killed by what one industry executive called death by a thousand cuts. Nothing about the decline was dramatic, which is exactly what makes it the defining story of the post-boom correction.
The People
Behind the beer
Winnipeg craft pioneer launching modern styles in Manitoba.
The Beer Library
Beers
Little Scrapper IPA
RetiredIndia Pale Ale
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0214; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 22. Official Half Pints archive record; brewery is now CLOSED.
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RetiredPale Ale / Kölsch-inspired
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0215; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 22. Official Half Pints archive record; brewery describes it as a medium-bodied blonde brew inspired by Kölsch.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Stir Stick Stout
RetiredCoffee Stout
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0216; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 22. Official Half Pints archive record; brewery is now CLOSED.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bulldog Amber Ale
RetiredAmber Ale
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0217; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 22. Official Half Pints archive index verifies canonical beer name and style family; ABV left UNKNOWN because the product page was not retrievable.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Queer Beer
RetiredHelles
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0218; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / SEASONAL. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 22. Official archive says brewed for Pride Winnipeg; page lists years brewed Spring 2010 and Fall 2012 and marks it unavailable.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Encyclopedia Brown
RetiredBrown Ale
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0240; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 23. Official Half Pints archive gives 5.2% ABV and identifies it as a malty Brown ale.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Oktoberfest
RetiredMärzen Lager
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0241; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 23. Official Half Pints archive describes a German Märzen lager and gives 6.2% ABV.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hop Pun
RetiredIPA
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0242; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 23. Official Half Pints archive index verifies Hop Pun as an IPA; ABV remains UNKNOWN because the individual product page timed out during retrieval.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Old Red Barn
RetiredBarrel-Aged Flanders Red
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0243; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / OFFICIAL BEER ARCHIVE. Source type: Official brewery. Pass added: 23. Official archive calls it Half Pints' first sour-beer foray, a barrel-aged Flanders red, 6.4% ABV.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Cherry Barn
RetiredBelgian-Style Sour Ale
Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research beer ID: MB-BE0273; research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Original availability: HISTORICAL / AWARD-VERIFIED — 2019. Source type: Published CBA results coverage. Pass added: 25. 2019 Canadian Brewing Awards bronze-medal beer in Belgian-Style Sour Ale.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2019
BRONZE — Belgian-Style Sour Ale
Canadian Brewing Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
1 organisations
Connected suppliers & bodies
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2019BRONZE — Belgian-Style Sour Ale
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2026/05/21/brewing-up-community 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 reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 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 Half Pints Brewing Company
- Is Half Pints Brewing Company still open?
- No. Half Pints Brewing Company has closed (2025). Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research brewery ID: MB-B0021. Entity type: Production brewery. Pass 2 correction: newer Winnipeg Free Press reporting on May 21, 2026 identifies Half Pints among brewery closures. Official site still shows operating hours, treated as stale/conflicting evidence.
- When was Half Pints Brewing Company founded?
- Half Pints Brewing Company was founded in 2006 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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