Archive record · Brewery
New Tradition Brewing Company
Comox, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2019
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-R9JHE6A5
- 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.
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- Who owns this brewery?
- Patti Savard (since 2019)Verified
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Summary
SFU timeline records New Tradition Brewing Corporation beginning in 2019. BC Ale Trail says New Tradition later closed and the co-owners of Church St Taphouse bought the brewery/site and restarted it as RAD Brewing. No corporate continuity is inferred. Legal entity: New Tradition Brewing Corporation. Production evidence: Historical production Closed before RAD 2023 reopening; same physical site successor. Owner as recorded: Patti Savard; partner Tammy historical; exact ownership structure unresolved. Status as recorded: Closed before RAD Brewing acquired and restarted the brewery. Exact closure date remains UNKNOWN pending dedicated lineage pass.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Patti Savard; Tammy2019 – 2023
What the sources say
BC Ale Trail interview identifies Patti and partner Tammy in New Tradition founding story; exact legal shares unresolved.
- Founded by Patti Savard2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0119 ("Founder/ownership leads"). Brewer and brains behind Comox's New Tradition, grand-opened 2019-08-24 — fourth-generation homebrewing stock, father to great-grandfather. The companion claim naming only 'Tammy' stays HELD: no reachable source gives a surname.
- Owned by Patti Savard2019
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0119 ("Founder/ownership leads"). Founder-owner.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 215 Port Augusta St, Comox, BCComox, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by New Tradition Brewing
Site detail
Closed before RAD Brewing acquired and restarted the brewery. Exact closure date remains UNKNOWN pending dedicated lineage pass.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57, which cited https://bcaletrail.ca/breweries/rad-brewing/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (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.
Straight answers
Common questions about New Tradition Brewing Company
- Is New Tradition Brewing Company still open?
- No. New Tradition Brewing Company has closed. The archive has not established the year it stopped. SFU timeline records New Tradition Brewing Corporation beginning in 2019. BC Ale Trail says New Tradition later closed and the co-owners of Church St Taphouse bought the brewery/site and restarted it as RAD Brewing. No corporate continuity is inferred. Legal entity: New Tradition Brewing Corporation. Production evidence: Historical production Closed before RAD 2023 reopening; same physical site successor. Owner as recorded: Patti Savard; partner Tammy historical; exact ownership structure unresolved. Status as recorded: Closed before RAD Brewing acquired and restarted the brewery. Exact closure date remains UNKNOWN pending dedicated lineage pass.
- When was New Tradition Brewing Company founded?
- New Tradition Brewing Company was founded in 2019 in Comox, Canada.
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