Archive record · Brewery
Imperial Brewing Co.
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 1898
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-RHERVW7J
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
SFU continuity row extends beyond Prohibition, but exact transition to later Rainier Brewing Co. Of Canada is not established by retrieved evidence. Legal entity: Imperial Brewing Co. Production evidence: Historical production — SFU BRW-96 through Oct. 1917 with post-Prohibition continuation bars. Status as recorded: Closed / post-prohibition lineage unresolved. PROBABLE DUPLICATE 2026-09-24: the Imperial Brewing Co. of Kamloops (1898) is the SFU row's second name for the Imperial Brewery of 1897 — the sourced record is imperial-brewing-kamloops-historical (TB-W7FG63H7). Not merged here.
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- Is Imperial Brewing Co. still open?
- No. Imperial Brewing Co. has closed. The archive has not established the year it stopped. SFU continuity row extends beyond Prohibition, but exact transition to later Rainier Brewing Co. Of Canada is not established by retrieved evidence. Legal entity: Imperial Brewing Co. Production evidence: Historical production — SFU BRW-96 through Oct. 1917 with post-Prohibition continuation bars. Status as recorded: Closed / post-prohibition lineage unresolved. PROBABLE DUPLICATE 2026-09-24: the Imperial Brewing Co. of Kamloops (1898) is the SFU row's second name for the Imperial Brewery of 1897 — the sourced record is imperial-brewing-kamloops-historical (TB-W7FG63H7). Not merged here.
- When was Imperial Brewing Co. founded?
- Imperial Brewing Co. was founded in 1898 in Kamloops, Canada.
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