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Sooke Oceanside Brewery

Sooke, British Columbia, Canada

ActiveIndependentMicrobrewery
Founded
Not recorded
Archive ID
TB-A436R7H0
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

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

Ownership & corporate history

  1. Owned by Ryan Orr2015

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

    What the sources say

    Live CIPO registration names Ryan Orr dba Sooke Oceanside Brewery as registered owner; first-party story identifies Orr as founder.

  2. Founded by Ryan OrrDate unknown

    Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.

    What the sources say

    Official brewery story identifies Ryan Orr as founder.

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

Where it brewed

  1. 5871-A Sooke Road, Sooke, BC V9Z 0C7
    Sooke, British Columbia

    PRODUCTION

    Operated by Sooke Oceanside Brewery

    Site detail

    Current official brewery site confirms active Sooke brewery and beer lineup.

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The People

Behind the beer

Ryan Orr
Founder; owner/operator; registered DBA/trademark owner

Live CIPO registration names Ryan Orr dba Sooke Oceanside Brewery as registered owner; first-party story identifies him as founder.

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The Beer Library

Beers

Bonfire Blonde Ale

Current

Blonde Ale

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Renfrew Red Ale

Current

Irish Red Ale

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Stiff Jab Pale Ale

Current

West Coast Pale Ale

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Springboard IPA

Current

West Coast IPA

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Leechtown Lager

Current / year-round or seasonal

Lager

ABV5.0%
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Stuck in the Mud Porter

Current / year-round or seasonal

Coffee Porter

ABV6.5%
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Bear Beach Porter

Current / year-round or seasonal

Baltic Porter

ABV8.0%
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Graveyard of the Pacific

Current / year-round or seasonal

Imperial Red Ale

ABV8.0%
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Patio Lanterns

Current / year-round or seasonal

Fruit Beer

ABV7.0%
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Reena O’Reilly

Current / year-round or seasonal

Irish Dry Stout

ABV4.5%
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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited http://www.sookeoceansidebrewery.com 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 Sooke Oceanside Brewery

Who owns Sooke Oceanside Brewery?
Sooke Oceanside Brewery is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Sooke, Canada.
Is Sooke Oceanside Brewery independent?
Yes. Sooke Oceanside Brewery 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.
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