Archive record · Brewery
The Pass Beer Co.
Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Also known as Pass Beer, The Pass Beer Company
- Founded
- 2020
- Archive ID
- TB-F135VTYE
- Last checked
- 2026-08-31
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From the record
Summary
Twelve taps plus a deep rotating list — the core lineup here is the published one; seasonals rotate.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Opening a taproom in the spring of 2020 was, on paper, the worst timing in modern brewing. Indoor service was banned before they could use it, so The Pass Beer Co. Started life as a pick-up window selling growlers to a valley that had nowhere else to go. It worked. Five years on it runs twelve taps, wood-fired pizza and made-from-scratch poutine out of a Blairmore storefront, in the middle of the same corridor that made Emilio Picariello rich a century earlier. It is the geographic and moral centre of the Alibi Run: the Crowsnest Pass finally has a legal brewery of its own, in the exact spot the illegal stuff used to change hands.
The founding thesisDanielle Radvak and her husband opened a small-batch brewery on Blairmore's main street in 2020 — a coal-town valley that had spent a century moving other people's liquor and had no brewery of its own.
Where it is
49.61604, -114.46062
Checked against the brewery's own published address
Open on a mapEvents
- Glorious and Free: 39 breweries brew the recipe with 100% Canadian ingredients2025
COLLABORATION
The Museum
Timeline
- 2020The pick-up window
Danielle Radvak and her husband open The Pass Beer Co. in Blairmore during the pandemic. With indoor guests restricted, the brewery launches by selling growlers out of a pick-up window.
- 2020sTwelve taps and a kitchen
Grows into a full taproom and restaurant — twelve taps, wood-fired pizza, made-from-scratch poutine, flights, growler fills and keg sales, with a pet-friendly patio looking onto the mountains.
The People
Behind the beer
Co-founded the brewery with her husband and opened the doors in 2020, mid-pandemic, selling beer through a pick-up window because the taproom could not be used.
Runs the brewhouse; has talked publicly about pushing the beer beyond the taproom into cans and Alberta-wide distribution.
The Beer Library
Beers
High Rock Mango Blonde
Mango Blonde Ale
Current Alberta Ale Trail recommended beer listing. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
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Plan a visit
- 12 taps
- Pet-friendly patio
- Family friendly
- Wood-fired pizza
- Made-from-scratch poutine
- Gluten-free & vegan options
- Flights
- Growler fills
- Keg sales
- Mountain views
Stop 2 of the Alibi Run. Lost Lemon RV Park & Campground (11001 19 Ave) is two blocks away on the Crowsnest River — 46 sites, full and partial hook-ups, pull-throughs and two cabins — which makes this the natural overnight anchor for the route.
On the record
Awards
- 2021
Bronze — New Brewery of the Year — — Brewery Award —
Alberta Beer Awards
- 2021
Bronze — New Brewery of the Year
Alberta Beer Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
What the archive does not know yet
Open questions
- UnknownownerOwner not established. Searched 2026-10-01 (passbeer.ca home, about and contact pages, a podcast, Tripadvisor). The Let's Meet for a Beer podcast (episode 71) introduces Danielle Radvak as co-founder, who opened the doors with her husband in 2020; passbeer.ca names no owner. A Tripadvisor review naming an owner is not used.
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Sources
- ownerUnknown
Owner not established. Searched 2026-10-01 (passbeer.ca home, about and contact pages, a podcast, Tripadvisor). The Let's Meet for a Beer podcast (episode 71) introduces Danielle Radvak as co-founder, who opened the doors with her husband in 2020; passbeer.ca names no owner. A Tripadvisor review naming an owner is not used.
The Pass Beer Co.: page searched for its owner · letsmeetforabeer.com
SecondaryLow reliabilitySource accessed 2026-10-01Claim last checked 2026-10-01
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