Oldman River Brewing Ltd.

Lundbreck is a village of a few hundred people on Highway 3, minutes from Lundbreck Falls, at the point where the mountains hand over to ranch country. Oldman River Brewing has been pouring there since 2017 and is the reason the Alibi Run has a finish line: get past this stretch of road and the corridor opens onto the prairie, which is exactly what the rum-runners were counting on. The brewery is unusually honest about its own priorities — the team says outright it would rather be on the river than in the taproom — and the result is a dog-friendly covered patio, a food truck and a family room that feel like a trailhead rather than a bar.

The founding thesisA family-run brewery built out of the Oldman River watershed itself — founded by lifelong southwestern Albertans who hike, ski, fish and hunt the country the beer is named after.

1. 2017
   Pouring in Lundbreck

   Opens its taproom in July 2017 beside Highway 3 in Lundbreck, named for the Oldman River watershed the founders grew up on.

2. 2020s
   Cans province-wide

   Core beers move beyond the taproom — on tap across southern Alberta and in cans in liquor stores province-wide.

3. 2025
   Copper John goes national

   Copper John Northern Brown Ale takes silver at the Alberta Beer Awards in October, then silver again at the Canada Beer Cup in November.