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Red Collar Brewing

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

ActiveIndependentMicrobrewery
Founded
2014
Archive ID
TB-Z7NJ48QA
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.

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

Tally’s Take

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

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Owned by David Beardsell2014

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

    What the sources say

    BC Ale Trail identifies David and Annamarie as owners; dated 2020 succession story says daughters Lara and Tessa were taking more active operating roles. 2026 equity refresh remains open.

  2. Owned by Annamarie Beardsell2014

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

    What the sources say

    BC Ale Trail identifies David and Annamarie as owners; dated 2020 succession story says daughters Lara and Tessa were taking more active operating roles. 2026 equity refresh remains open.

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

Where it brewed

  1. 355 Lansdowne St, Kamloops, BC V2C 1X9
    Kamloops, British Columbia

    PRODUCTION

    Operated by Red Collar Brewing

    Site detail

    Current BC Ale Trail brewery. David Beardsell opened Red Collar in October 2014 after earlier founding Bear Brewing and helping establish Noble Pig.

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The People

Behind the beer

Nick Serbedzija
Head Brewer

Current Guild listing.

Lara Beardsell
Operations / next-generation management

Beardsell interview identifies day-to-day operations role.

Tessa Beardsell
Taproom / next-generation management

Beardsell interview identifies taproom role.

David Beardsell
Co-founder; owner; master brewer

BC Ale Trail identifies David and Annamarie as owners; current exact equity needs refresh.

Annamarie Beardsell
Co-founder; owner/operator

BC Ale Trail identifies David and Annamarie as owners.

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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited http://redcollar.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 Red Collar Brewing

Who owns Red Collar Brewing?
Red Collar Brewing is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Kamloops, Canada.
Is Red Collar Brewing independent?
Yes. Red Collar Brewing 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 Red Collar Brewing founded?
Red Collar Brewing was founded in 2014 in Kamloops, Canada.
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