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Pemberton Brewing Company

Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada

ActiveIndependentMicrobrewery
Founded
2018
Archive ID
TB-WE9YNQRV
Last checked
Not yet checked
#BritishColumbia#Independent

Who owns this brewery?

Independent

Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.

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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. Current official site lists active tasting room at units 5/6 1936 Stonecutter Place. BC corporate registry history shows Pemberton Brewing Company Ltd. Name by June 2012; 2018 Sea-to-Sky reporting described the brewery preparing to open that spring. Legal entity: Pemberton Brewing Company Ltd. Production evidence: ACTIVE.

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

Tally’s Take

Pemberton Brewing pours in Pemberton, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Controlled by Geoff Macdonald2018

    Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.

    What the sources say

    Contemporary 2018 Pique Newsmagazine reporting names longtime friends Jeff Lawrence and Geoff Macdonald as the principals behind Pemberton Brewing. This resolves the previously UNKNOWN Jeff surname. Current 2026 human equity is still not independently refreshed. Source: https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/food-and-drink/pemberton-brewing-co-wants-to-turn-spud-valley-into-a-beer-destination-2504236

  2. Controlled by Jeff Lawrence2018

    Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.

    What the sources say

    Contemporary 2018 Pique Newsmagazine reporting names longtime friends Jeff Lawrence and Geoff Macdonald as the principals behind Pemberton Brewing. This resolves the previously UNKNOWN Jeff surname. Current 2026 human equity is still not independently refreshed. Source: https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/food-and-drink/pemberton-brewing-co-wants-to-turn-spud-valley-into-a-beer-destination-2504236

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

Events

  1. A same-name BC company, 0935786, was voluntarily dissolved before the current brewery opened.2017-03-15

    LEGAL ENTITY DISSOLUTION

    Primary corporate-registry dissolution notice.

  2. BC Corporate Registry records current brewery-company lineage changing to Pemberton Brewing Company Ltd. immediately before the brewery's 2018 operating launch.2018-01-30

    Opening

    Primary corporate-registry name-change notice.

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The People

Behind the beer

Geoff Macdonald
Co-owner / operator (opening-era)

2019 profile describes Geoff Macdonald and business partner Jeff running the two-man brewery.

Jeff Lawrence
Co-founder / opening co-owner-operator

2018 Pique Newsmagazine identifies longtime friends Jeff Lawrence and Geoff Macdonald as the principals behind Pemberton Brewing.

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The Beer Library

Beers

Cream Puff

Documented / popular

Hazy / NE Pale Ale

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Travel Guide

Plan a visit

Address5-6, 1936 Stonecutter Place, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0
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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://pembertonbrewing.ca/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.

    BC Ale Trail — brewery directory · BC Ale Trail

    ReferenceMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08
    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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Straight answers

Common questions about Pemberton Brewing Company

Who owns Pemberton Brewing Company?
Pemberton Brewing Company is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Pemberton, Canada.
Is Pemberton Brewing Company independent?
Yes. Pemberton 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 Pemberton Brewing Company founded?
Pemberton Brewing Company was founded in 2018 in Pemberton, Canada.
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