R&B Brewing Co.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Est. 1997
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Official brewery says all beer is made in-house behind the tasting room and has been brewed there since Aug. 1997. R&B was sold to Howe Sound in 2015; after Howe Sound's 2020 sale, R&B continued independently under Fenn-family direction. Legal entity: R&B Brewing Co.. Production evidence: PRODUCTION VERIFIED. Ownership as recorded: Independent current entity; ownership lineage verified in part. Owner as recorded: Fenn family current control; founders Rick Dellow and Barry Benson. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. Listed in the BC Ale Trail brewery directory (checked August 2026). Independence is as-listed by that directory and has not been independently verified. Founding year not yet on the record.
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Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.randbbrewing.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
BC Ale Trail — brewery directory · BC Ale Trail
ReferenceMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08Reviewed 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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Common questions about R&B Brewing Co.
- Who owns R&B Brewing Co.?
- R&B Brewing Co. is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Is R&B Brewing Co. independent?
- Yes. R&B Brewing Co. 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 R&B Brewing Co. founded?
- R&B Brewing Co. was founded in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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