Archive record · Brewery
Medicine Hat Brewing Company
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
- Founded
- 2016
- Archive ID
- TB-VWGERA1E
- Last checked
- 2026-10-02
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
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- Who owns this brewery?
- Warren Vancuren (since 2016)Verified
From the record
Summary
Ingested from the Alberta compendium (August 2026). Founding year and independence as published there; not independently Opened 2016, reviving the name and heritage of an earlier local brewery established in 1912. Official brewery history says the modern operation opened in 2016; team page identifies Warren, Kaiden and Brennan Vancuren as founder/co-owners; facility page confirms active brewing. Production evidence: PRODUCTION Family-owned/co-owned roles verified; full equity split unknown. Owner as recorded: Warren Vancuren; Kaiden Vancuren; Brennan Vancuren (co-owner roles stated). Status as recorded: ACTIVE. STANDING IDENTITY NOTE, 2026-09-23: this business was founded in 2016 and REVIVES THE NAME of a separate company. The Medicine Hat Brewing Company, Limited of 1913-1930 is a distinct record, medicine-hat-brewing-company-limited-1913 (TB-89JP9GKZ), evidenced by six Alberta Liquor Control Board licence volumes and a Memorandum of Association at Library and Archives Canada. NINETY YEARS SEPARATE THEM. A reconciliation of the licence register against this archive matched the two on name and place and was wrong; the matcher now gates on dates. Never merge them, and do not carry the 1920s company's dates, founder or history onto this record.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Brewing in the town Kipling called the place with all hell for a basement — natural gas under the ground and a brewery above it.
Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Warren Vancuren2016
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0002 ("Founder/co-owner"). The Vancuren family — Warren, wife Kathey, sons Kaiden and Brennan (research leads) — revived the historic 1912 Medicine Hat Brewing Company name and opened 2016-12-10. Warren, a 30-year oil-and-gas businessman, got it rolling in early 2016.
- Owned by Warren Vancuren2016
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0002 ("Founder/co-owner"). Family-owned; Warren named MHC Business Person of the Year 2018 for it.
- Owned by Kaiden VancurenDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Official brewery team page identifies Kaiden as co-owner. Pass source id: SRC-CA-0050
- Owned by Brennan VancurenDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Official brewery team page identifies Brennan as co-owner. Pass source id: SRC-CA-0050
- Owned by Kathy / Kathey VancurenDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Current owner claim; spelling variants treated as same person unless contradicted. Source: https://middlename.ca/project/river-street-real-estate/
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it is
50.06202, -110.71774
Supplied by the research pass; method not recorded
Open on a mapThe Museum
Timeline
- 1912Original brewery began serving beer
The brewery's own site dates the Medicine Hat Brewing Company to 1912. This record's founding year is 2016; the 1912 company is possibly an earlier company of the same name, and no lineage is asserted (see the disputed founding-year claim). Source: "In 1912, the Medicine Hat Brewing Company began serving old-fashioned lager, ale, and stout to our city's early-and thirsty-residents."
The People
Behind the beer
Current case study identifies Owner; historical sources spell Kathey.
Current first-party team page.
The Beer Library
Beers
Burnside Blood Orange Ale
Year-RoundTravel Guide
Plan a visit
- Taproom
- Kitchen
- Patio
On the record
Awards
- 2025
Bronze — Porter & Stout — Gentlemen's Stout
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2024
Silver — Stout — Gentlemen's Stout
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2024
Silver — Stout
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2024
Gold — Fruit Beer — Creamsicle Ale
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2024
Gold — Baltic Porter — Year 4 Baltic Porter
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2023
Gold — Baltic Porter — Year 4
Canadian Brewing Awards
- 2022
Bronze — Oatmeal Stout — Gentlemen's Stout
Canadian Brewing Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
What the archive does not know yet
Open questions
- DisputedfoundedFounding year DISPUTED. This record gives 2016. The brewery's own site says 'In 1912, the Medicine Hat Brewing Company began serving old-fashioned lager, ale, and stout'. The 1912 company is possibly an earlier company of the same name; no lineage is asserted, and neither year is chosen.
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Sources
- foundedDisputed
Founding year DISPUTED. This record gives 2016. The brewery's own site says 'In 1912, the Medicine Hat Brewing Company began serving old-fashioned lager, ale, and stout'. The 1912 company is possibly an earlier company of the same name; no lineage is asserted, and neither year is chosen.
Medicine Hat Brewing Company — Our Brewery
BreweryMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-23Brewery-statedClaim last checked 2026-10-01
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 Medicine Hat Brewing Company
- Who owns Medicine Hat Brewing Company?
- Medicine Hat Brewing Company is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Medicine Hat, Canada.
- Is Medicine Hat Brewing Company independent?
- Yes. Medicine Hat Brewing Company 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 Medicine Hat Brewing Company founded?
- Medicine Hat Brewing Company was founded in 2016 in Medicine Hat, Canada.
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