Herchmer & Batkin Brewery
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Where the Redwood site begins. The Seven Oaks House Museum and the Manitoba Historical Society identify Herchmer & Batkin as the brewery standing at Redwood before 1877 — the idle one Edward Drewry bought that year and restarted. The founding year is unknown and stays unknown: the sources establish only that it opened at some point before 1877, and a plausible guess written down here would be quoted back as fact within a year. Everything that followed on that corner, through Drewry, Carling, Carling-O'Keefe and Molson to the 1999 demolition, started with this.
The Museum
Timeline
- 1877Sold to Drewry, idle
Edward L. Drewry purchases the idle brewery; the opening year is not established.
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How it changed hands
1 recorded move- 1877Sold to Drewry, idle
Edward L. Drewry purchases the idle brewery; the opening year is not established.
No current parent in the archive's records — the moves above are history, not present ownership.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.sevenoakshouse.ca/redwood-brewery.html 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 - historyProbable
Lineage dates as recorded in Manitoba Pass 26: 1877.
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.
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