Archive record · Brewery
Swift Brewing & Good Time Tasting Room
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2023
- Archive ID
- TB-4YCFB9RX
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.
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- Who owns this brewery?
- CRAFT Beer Market (since 2023)Verified
From the record
Summary
Opened in May 2023 at 450 Swift Street. Current first-party site confirms active 2026 brewery/tasting room. BC Ale Trail includes Swift on the current Greater Victoria Ale Trail.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Succeeded by Canoe Brewpub2021
Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.
What the sources say
Canoe brewery infrastructure was retained through CRAFT conversion; Swift opened in the same 450 Swift St brewery footprint in 2023.
- Founded by Scott Frank; PJ L'Heureux / CRAFT Beer Market2023
Open questionRecorded, not yet proven. It stays open until a source settles it.
What the sources say
Opening reporting identifies the two CRAFT co-founders as creators of Swift; exact corporate equity unresolved.
- Founded by Scott Frank2023
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0147 ("Founders / parent-group relationship"). Co-founder with PJ L'Heureux of CRAFT Beer Market (est. Calgary 2011), who split their Victoria space during renovations to create Swift Brewing, opened May 2023 at 450 Swift Street. founded_by only — the brewery itself is owned by CRAFT, not by Frank personally.
- Founded by PJ L'Heureux2023
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0149 ("Founders / parent-group relationship"). Co-founder with Scott Frank. The pass's compound wording named the person AND the company; they resolve as different mechanisms — the people founded, the company owns.
- Owned by CRAFT Beer Market2023
What the sources say
Resolves held claim HOC-0149 ("Founders / parent-group relationship"). Swift Brewing is CRAFT Beer Market's own brewery — its first — housed with the Victoria location.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- 450 Swift Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1S2Victoria, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by Swift Brewing & Good Time Tasting Room
Site detail
Opened in May 2023 at 450 Swift Street. Current first-party site confirms active 2026 brewery/tasting room. BC Ale Trail includes Swift on the current Greater Victoria Ale Trail.
The People
Behind the beer
D&B identifies Patrick L'Heureux as President of Craft (Victoria) Ltd., DBA Swift Brewing.
The Beer Library
Beers
On the record
Awards
- 2023
Gold — Hazy Pale Ale / relevant category
BC Beer Awards
- 2023
Gold — Smooth Operator (Hazy Pale Ale / relevant category)
BC Beer Awards
- 2023
Rookie Brewery of the Year
BC Beer Awards
- 2023
Hazy Pale Ale / relevant category — Smooth Operator
BC Beer Awards
- 2023
Gold — Hazy IPA — Smooth Operator
BC Beer Awards
- 2023
Rookie of the Year — Rookie of the Year
BC Beer Awards
- 2023
Hazy Pale Ale / relevant category
BC Beer Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
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Connected suppliers & bodies
- bc beer awardsAwarded2023Gold — Hazy Pale Ale / relevant category
- bc beer awardsAwarded2023Gold — Smooth Operator (Hazy Pale Ale / relevant category)
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57, which cited https://swiftbrewing.ca/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 2026-08-19
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