Archive record · Brewery
Irrational Brewing Company
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Founded
- 2021
- Archive ID
- TB-VR79FF1X
- Last checked
- 2026-10-02
Who owns this brewery?
Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.
From the record
Summary
Founder: Nathan Marculis; Wafa Veljee. Current 124th Street craft brewery in a historic electrical-substation building; active 2026 first-party site and menu.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Wafa VeljeeDate unknown
What the sources say
Quote (Edify Edmonton): "Nathan Marculis, head brewer of Irrational Brewing with his wife, Wafa Veljee, who co-owns it". The other co-owner is not named in the sentence and is not recorded.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it is
53.55067, -113.53539
Supplied by the research pass; method not recorded
Open on a mapThe Museum
Timeline
- 2021-09-10Brewing by at least 10 September 2021 (earliest beer listed on Untappd)
abbeer.ca lists up to 25 beers with Untappd 'inaugural batch' dates; this is the earliest listed - a lower bound on brewing activity, not a confirmed opening date. Consistent with record founded 2021. Brewery site has no dates. Source: "Inaugural Batch: Friday, September 10, 2021"
The People
Behind the beer
The Beer Library
Beers
Hydrozoa
CURRENT / FEATUREDNEPA
First-party site currently features Hydrozoa NEPA.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Autonomic Mind
HISTORICAL / AWARD-VERIFIEDNew England Style/Hazy Ale
2022 Alberta Beer Awards medal record.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Parabolic 2022
HISTORICAL / AWARD-VERIFIEDIPA
2022 Alberta Beer Awards medal record.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Karoshi
HISTORICAL / AWARD-VERIFIEDOther Flavoured Beer
2022 Alberta Beer Awards gold; exact formulation held for deeper recovery.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hydrozoa NEPA
New England Pale Ale
Official brewery home page depicts current Hydrozoa NEPA; producer identity also supported by Alberta brewery listing. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Visceral Haze
New England / Hazy IPA
Alberta brewery database documents 2026 inaugural batch and ABV. (CURRENT/RECENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Parabolic 2025
Imperial S’mores Stout
Alberta brewery database documents 2025 anniversary release and local malt/chocolate ingredients. (RECENT) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Travel Guide
Plan a visit
On the record
Awards
- 2025
Gold — Double/Imperial IPA — Hyperbolic 2025
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2024
Silver — American-style Sour Ale — Nexus
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2023
Bronze — French and Belgian Style Saison — A Fictitious Anomaly
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2023
Silver — Fruit Beer or Field Beer — Opuntia Mirage
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2022
Bronze — Autonomic Mind (New England Style/Hazy Ale)
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Bronze — Parabolic 2022 (IPA)
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Gold — Karoshi (Other Flavoured Beer)
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
New Brewery of the Year — New Brewery of the Year
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Bronze — New England Style/Hazy Ale — Autonomic Mind
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Bronze — IPA — Parabolic 2022
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Gold — Other Flavoured Beer — Karoshi
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Gold — New Brewery of the Year — — Brewery Award —
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Bronze — New England Style/Hazy Ale
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Bronze — IPA
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Gold — Other Flavoured Beer
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2022
Gold — New Brewery of the Year
Alberta Beer 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
- alberta beer awardsAwarded2022Bronze — New England Style/Hazy Ale
- alberta beer awardsAwarded2022Bronze — IPA
- alberta beer awardsAwarded2022Gold — Other Flavoured Beer
- alberta beer awardsAwarded2022Bronze — Autonomic Mind (New England Style/Hazy Ale)
- alberta beer awardsAwarded2022Bronze — Parabolic 2022 (IPA)
- alberta beer awardsAwarded2022Gold — Karoshi (Other Flavoured Beer)
Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Alberta master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.irrationalbrewing.ca/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Alberta 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.
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