Switchback Brewing Company Ltd.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada · Est. 2023
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Same physical brewery site as Maple Meadows, but new ownership and brand from fall 2023. Owners bring ~20 years of homebrewing and outdoor/ultrarunning identity. Legal entity: Switchback Brewing Company Ltd.. Production evidence: CURRENT PRODUCTION VERIFIED — current first-party brewery/taproom plus Guild listing.. Ownership as recorded: CURRENT GUILD MEMBER — ≥51% BC-OWNERSHIP CRITERION EVIDENCE; exact equity percentages HELD. Owner as recorded: Chad Bergen; Amanda Bergen — new local owners. 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. Established 2023 through the acquisition and renaming of Maple Meadows Brewing, which opened in 2015.
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Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://www.switchbackbrewco.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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- Who owns Switchback Brewing Company Ltd.?
- Switchback Brewing Company Ltd. is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
- Is Switchback Brewing Company Ltd. independent?
- Yes. Switchback Brewing Company Ltd. 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 Switchback Brewing Company Ltd. founded?
- Switchback Brewing Company Ltd. was founded in 2023 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
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