Archive record · Brewery
KPU Brew Lab
Langley City, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2014
- Archive ID
- TB-S9SEZEXT
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
From the record
Summary
Listed in the BC Ale Trail brewery directory (checked August 2026). Independence is as-listed by that directory and has not been independently Founding year not yet on the record. Kwantlen Polytechnic University teaching brewery; student brewing began 2014, the dedicated Brew Lab around 2015.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
KPU Brew Lab pours in Langley City, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
Ownership & corporate history
- Controlled by Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityDate unknown
Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.
What the sources say
Teaching brewery is institutionally operated; conventional private-equity framing not applied.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 20901 Langley Bypass, Langley, BCLangley City, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by KPU Brew Lab | Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Site detail
Working teaching brewery producing rotating small-batch beers as part of KPU Brewing and Brewery Operations.
The Beer Library
Beers
Session Ale
Year-RoundAle
Current KPU sales list; 25 IBU. (CURRENT / WEEKLY SALES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Salted Lime Lager
Year-RoundSalted Lime Lager
Current KPU sales list; exact ABV not visible in retrieved source text. (CURRENT / WEEKLY SALES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Knotty Bee
Student Signature Series — style UNKNOWN
Student-designed/brewed/packaged capstone beer. (2026 SIGNATURE SERIES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Crst&Crm
Student Signature Series — style UNKNOWN
Student-designed/brewed/packaged capstone beer. (2026 SIGNATURE SERIES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Red Handed
Student Signature Series — style UNKNOWN
Student-designed/brewed/packaged capstone beer. (2026 SIGNATURE SERIES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Fruitini
Student Signature Series — style UNKNOWN
Student-designed/brewed/packaged capstone beer. (2026 SIGNATURE SERIES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →MacToff
Student Signature Series — style UNKNOWN
Student-designed/brewed/packaged capstone beer. (2026 SIGNATURE SERIES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Jelly Farm
Student Signature Series — style UNKNOWN
Student-designed/brewed/packaged capstone beer. (2026 SIGNATURE SERIES) [Canada Pass 102]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2019
Brewery of the Year — Brewery of the Year
BC Beer Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.kpu.ca/science/brew/brewinglab for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
BC Ale Trail — brewery directory · BC Ale Trail
ReferenceMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08Claim 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.
Straight answers
Common questions about KPU Brew Lab
- Who owns KPU Brew Lab?
- KPU Brew Lab is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Langley City, Canada.
- Is KPU Brew Lab independent?
- Yes. KPU Brew Lab is recorded as independent, with no parent company. Independence is recorded as the brewery states it; where a stake is a minority holding or joint venture, this archive leaves it unmapped rather than calling it ownership.
- When was KPU Brew Lab founded?
- KPU Brew Lab was founded in 2014 in Langley City, Canada.
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