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Nonsuch Brewing Co.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

ActiveSingle breweryMicrobrewery
Founded
2016
Archive ID
TB-K3KPX92R
Last checked
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#Manitoba#Independent

Who owns this brewery?

Matthew Sabourin

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?
Matthew Sabourin (since 2016)Verified
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From the record

Summary

A premium, award-winning prairie brewery known for high-ABV Belgian styles served in a moody, aesthetic taproom. Master. Production brewery / brewpub. Official site confirms brasserie and current craft beer production.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Tally’s Take

A highly aesthetic, moody masterpiece in Winnipeg. They offer an award-winning, premium Belgian experience on the prairies.

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Founded by Matthew Sabourin2016
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0041 ("MAJORITY OWNER / CO-FOUNDER"). Co-founder who originated the idea; established 2016. Co-founders Mark Borowski, Ben Myers and Ty Johnston are research leads — no held claims exist for them, so no events are asserted here.

  2. Owned by Matthew Sabourin2016
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0041 ("MAJORITY OWNER / CO-FOUNDER"). Majority owner of the majority-Indigenous-owned brewery and hospitality company.

  3. Founded by Mark Borowski2016
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0376 ("CO-FOUNDERS / MINORITY OWNERSHIP GROUP"). Co-founder of Nonsuch Brewing with Sabourin, Myers and Johnston — resolved on the evidence batch 3 gathered for the majority owner's claim. founded_by only: the sources state co-founding, and ownership shares only for Sabourin.

  4. Founded by Ben Myers2016
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0377 ("CO-FOUNDERS / MINORITY OWNERSHIP GROUP"). Co-founder of Nonsuch Brewing; same evidence and same restraint as Borowski's claim.

  5. Founded by Ty Johnston2016
    What the sources say

    Resolves held claim HOC-0378 ("CO-FOUNDERS / MINORITY OWNERSHIP GROUP"). Co-founder of Nonsuch Brewing; same evidence and restraint.

Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.

Where it brewed

  1. 125 Pacific Ave, Winnipeg, MB
    Winnipeg, Manitoba

    PRODUCTION

    Operated by Nonsuch Brewing Co.

    Site detail

    Official site confirms brasserie and current craft beer production.

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The People

Behind the beer

Mark Klassen & Tim Taylor
Founders

Winnipeg artisan brewery inspired by traditional abbey styles.

Matthew Sabourin
Majority owner / co-founder

MMF-verified majority owner.

Mark Borowski
Co-founder / brewer

Co-founder; founding head brewer.

Ben Myers
Owner

Carried from the merged La Brasserie Nonsuch record.

Ty Johnston
Co-founder

Recorded among the co-founders. Carried from the merged La Brasserie Nonsuch record; the role was glued onto the name there and is separated here.

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The Beer Library

Beers

Belgian Blonde

Year-Round

Belgian Blonde Ale

ABV7.0%

Named for the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668 and led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company. A Winnipeg brewery committing to Belgian styles is its own kind of stubbornness.

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Old Ale X

Year-Round

Old Ale

ABV10.0%

Official Nonsuch page describes Old Ale X as an award-winning 10% beer and offers it for reorder.

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La Pils

Year-Round

Craft Pilsner

2024. 2024 Manitoba Liquor Marts awards page identifies Nonsuch La Pils Craft Pilsner as a Canadian Brewing Awards gold-medal beer. Availability today not inferred.

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Raspberry Sour

Year-Round

American-Style Sour Ale

2024. 2024 Canadian Brewing Awards gold-medal beer; current availability not inferred.

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Prairie Common

Year-Round

Amber Lager

2021. 2021 Canadian Brewing Awards silver-medal beer in North American Style Amber Lager.

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350

Retired

Belgian-Style Strong Ale

2019. Aliases: 350 Orange Chocolate Belgian Rye Ale. Nonsuch says 350 began in 2018 as an Orange Chocolate Belgian Rye Ale and earned silver at the 2019 Canadian Brewing Awards.

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Baltic Porter

Year-Round

Baltic Porter / Strong Porter

2025. 2025 CBA bronze in American & British Porter; preserved as Baltic Porter from result name.

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On the record

Awards

  • 2025

    GOLD — Other Strong Beer

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2025

    BRONZE — American & British Porter

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2025

    American & British Porter — Baltic Porter

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2025

    Other Strong Beer — Old Ale X

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2024

    GOLD — German Kolsch Style

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2024

    GOLD — American-Style Sour Ale

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2024

    BRONZE — German Beer

    Prairie Beer Awards

  • 2024

    German Kolsch Style — La Pils

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2024

    American-Style Sour Ale — Raspberry Sour

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2024

    German Beer — La Pils

    Prairie Beer Awards

  • 2022

    Fruit Beer — Strawberry Kolsch

    Prairie Beer Awards

  • 2021

    BRONZE — Belgian-Style Strong Ale Pale / Dark / Specialty

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2021

    SILVER — North American Style Amber Lager

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2021

    Belgian-Style Strong Ale Pale / Dark / Specialty — Old Ale X

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2021

    North American Style Amber Lager — Prairie Common

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2019

    SILVER — Belgian-Style Strong Ale (Pale / Dark / Specialty)

    Canadian Brewing Awards

  • 2019

    Belgian-Style Strong Ale (Pale / Dark / Specialty) — 350

    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

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Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from Tally's Manitoba master, Pass 26, which cited https://www.nonsuch.beer/ 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 2026-08-19
    Claim 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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