Archive record · Brewery
Mariner Brewing
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2017
- Archive ID
- TB-9XC09915
- 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.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Mariner Brewing pours in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Gil Desaulniers2023
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
2023 reporting documents Desaulniers and Malott taking over from Wim Vander Zalm; later reporting continues to identify current co-ownership.
- Owned by Steele Malott2023
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
2023 reporting documents Desaulniers and Malott taking over from Wim Vander Zalm; later reporting continues to identify current co-ownership.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Events
- Gil Desaulniers and Steele Malott took over Mariner from retiring owner Wim Vander Zalm by July 2023.2023-07
OWNERSHIP TRANSFER
Contemporary ownership report.
The People
Behind the beer
2023 reporting identifies Gil and Steele as new owners taking over from Wim Vander Zalm.
2023 reporting identifies Gil and Steele as new owners taking over from Wim Vander Zalm.
The Beer Library
Beers
Hefeweizen
German Wheat Beer
2025 BC Beer Awards placement plus current 2026 brewery operation; exact ABV not captured. (CURRENT/RECENT) [Canada Pass 102]
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Awards
- 2025
3rd Place — German Wheat Beer — Hefeweizen
BC Beer Awards
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory. No source URL accompanied this row.
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 Mariner Brewing
- Who owns Mariner Brewing?
- Mariner Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Coquitlam, Canada.
- Is Mariner Brewing independent?
- Yes. Mariner Brewing 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 Mariner Brewing founded?
- Mariner Brewing was founded in 2017 in Coquitlam, Canada.
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