Archive record · Brewery
Low Life Barrel House
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Founded
- 2021
- Archive ID
- TB-SJNJ0TG5
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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
Brewery / winery. Official and Travel Manitoba sources describe craft beer production.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Low Life is a playground for funk and acidity. If you're tired of clean IPAs and want complex, barrel-aged, mixed-culture sour work, this is the mecca.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Adam CarsonDate unknown
Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.
What the sources say
Tourism Winnipeg identifies current owner.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 398 Daly St N, Winnipeg, MBWinnipeg, Manitoba
PRODUCTION
Operated by Low Life Barrel House
Site detail
Official and Travel Manitoba sources describe craft beer production.
Where it is
49.89120, -97.20210
Supplied by the research pass; method not recorded
Open on a mapThe People
Behind the beer
Current owner identified by Tourism Winnipeg.
Current head brewer.
The Beer Library
Beers
Blood Cut Brett
Year-RoundSmall Pale
Year-RoundPale Ale
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Low Light
Year-RoundTable Beer
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Tempestarii
Year-RoundSour Cherry Saison
Award-linked refinement: 2020 Canadian Brewing Awards records Tempestarii Sour Cherry Saison as GOLD in Wood and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer. Current availability remains whatever the official shop record established; award evidence is used here only to refine historical style identity.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Blood Cut
Year-RoundBrett IPA
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Enjoy Lager
Year-RoundLager
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dark Mild
Year-RoundDark Mild
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Docklife
Year-RoundBurdock Saison
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Partner Amber Lager
Year-RoundAmber Lager
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →House Saison
Year-RoundSaison
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Stout
Year-RoundStout
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Kiss Kiss
Year-RoundSour
Beer identity verified inside Low Life's current 4-Pack Brett listing; not created as a package duplicate.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sampling Room Saison
Year-RoundSaison
Official image text on current shop states 5.5% Alc/Vol.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sports Light Lager
Year-RoundLight Lager
Verified on Low Life's official current quick shop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Saint Lager
Year-RoundNon-Alcoholic Lager
Low Life's official shop lists Saint Lager as non-alcoholic. 0.5% ABV and the Harmon collaboration are corroborated by a detailed 2024 BeerCrank review; exact ABV is therefore confidence B.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Paradise Grove Graf Apple Beer
Year-RoundAmerican-Style Brett Beer
2024. 2024 Canadian Brewing Awards bronze-medal beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Nay Nay No. 4
Year-RoundWood and Barrel-Aged Beer
2024. 2024 Canadian Brewing Awards gold-medal beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Travel Guide
Plan a visit
- Barrel library
- Takeaway bottles & cans
On the record
Awards
- 2024
SILVER — Wild and Brett
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
BRONZE — American-Style Brett Beer
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2024
American-Style Brett Beer — Paradise Grove Graf Apple Beer
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2024
Wild and Brett — Blood Cut
Prairie Beer Awards
- 2024
Gold — Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer — Nay Nay no. 4
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2024
Gold — French and Belgian-style Saison — House Saison
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2022
BRONZE — American Style Brett Beer
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2022
American Style Brett Beer — Blood Cut
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2021
GOLD — American Style Brett Beer
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2021
American Style Brett Beer — Blood Cut
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2020
GOLD — Wood and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2020
Wood and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer — Tempestarii
Canadian Brewing Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
2 organisations
Connected suppliers & bodies
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2024GOLD — French and Belgian Style Saison
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2021GOLD — American Style Brett Beer
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2022BRONZE — American Style Brett Beer
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2020GOLD — Wood and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer
- prairie beer awardsAwarded2024SILVER — Wild and Brett
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2024BRONZE — American-Style Brett Beer
- canadian brewing awards and conferenceAwarded2024GOLD — Wood And Barrel-Aged Beer
Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.lowlifebarrelhouse.com/ 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 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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