Kootenay Brewery

No production is inferred during BC Prohibition. Exact legal/site succession from Righton's is unresolved. Legal entity: Kootenay Brewery. Production evidence: Historical production — SFU BRW-72 timeline records pre-Prohibition operation. UNKNOWN — BRW-72 SAME-ROW Relationship held. Status as recorded: CLOSED. CHECKED 2026-09-24: no source names a distinct Kootenay Brewery at Revelstoke in 1893; the SFU row's Kootenay Brewery 1893-1918 is on kootenay-brewery-revelstoke-historical (TB-CWBY7T7X), and the only 1894 reference found is the Kootenay Mail calling Allen's Revelstoke Brewery the largest in the Kootenays. PROBABLE DUPLICATE of that record. Not merged here. CORRECTION 2026-09-24: the CHECKED note of earlier today called this 1893 record a likely misattribution of Allen's brewery. The Kootenay Star and Kootenay Mail of 1893-95 show J. E. Long's Kootenay Brewery as a separate, working Revelstoke brewery. It remains a PROBABLE DUPLICATE of kootenay-brewery-revelstoke-historical (TB-CWBY7T7X), which carries the same SFU row. Not merged here.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

1. 1893
   Re-opened by J. E. Long

   The Kootenay Star's review of 1893 (30 December): "The Kootenay Brewery was re-opened early in the year by Mr. J. E. Long, and a lager beer brewing plant has recently been added to the Revelstoke Brewery." (PRIMARY) — two breweries in Revelstoke in 1893, this one distinct from Oliver Allen's. In January 1894 Long was summoned "for obstructing a public roadway near the Kootenay Brewery".

2. 1894
   'Have you tried the new lager from the Kootenay Brewery?'

   The Kootenay Mail's local items, 24 November to 8 December 1894: "Have you tried the new lager, from the Kootenay Brewery?" On 26 January 1895 "J. E. Long, of the Kootenay Brewery, was fined $25 and costs for selling liquor on Sunday", after Italians came "at the invitation of Jas. Harper, an employee of Mr. Long's". The SFU row carries it to 1918; its later proprietors: UNKNOWN.