Archive record · Brewery
Whistle Buoy Brewing Co.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2019
- Archive ID
- TB-Y5NMDG4R
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
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
Whistle Buoy Brewing Co. Pours in Victoria, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Iwan Williams2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Dated profile explicitly captions all five as owners; BC Ale Trail independently documents the founder trio and two later partners.
- Owned by Colin Curtis2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Dated profile explicitly captions all five as owners; BC Ale Trail independently documents the founder trio and two later partners.
- Owned by Matt West-Patrick2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Dated profile explicitly captions all five as owners; BC Ale Trail independently documents the founder trio and two later partners.
- Owned by Nina Colovic2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Dated profile explicitly captions all five as owners; BC Ale Trail independently documents the founder trio and two later partners.
- Owned by Isaiah Archer2019
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Dated profile explicitly captions all five as owners; BC Ale Trail independently documents the founder trio and two later partners.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- Unit 63 - 560 Johnson St., Victoria, BC V8W 3C6Victoria, British Columbia
PRODUCTION
Operated by Whistle Buoy Brewing
Site detail
Official site identifies Whistle Buoy as a small-batch experimental taproom brewery in Market Square.
The Beer Library
Beers
Coastality Pale Ale
Current / coreNorth American Pale Ale
Fuzzy Peach
American Wild Ale / Contemporary Sour
2024 BCBA silver and 2025 Canada Beer Cup gold; exact ABV not captured from primary source this pass. (CURRENT/AWARDED) [Canada Pass 102]
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Non-Alcoholic Hazy IPA
Brewery-made, hand-pasteurized NA beer. Official brewery says all its NA beers are <0.5% ABV. (CURRENT) [Canada Pass 102]
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Awards
- 2025
Gold — American Wild Ale
BC Beer Awards
- 2025
Gold — Fuzzy Peach Sour (American Wild Ale)
BC Beer Awards
- 2025
American Wild Ale — Fuzzy Peach Sour
BC Beer Awards
- 2025
Gold — Contemporary Sour Ale — Fuzzy Peach
Canada Beer Cup
- 2024
2nd Place — Specialty Wild Ale — Fuzzy Peach
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 awardsAwarded2025Gold — American Wild Ale
- bc beer awardsAwarded2025Gold — Fuzzy Peach Sour (American Wild Ale)
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from the BC Ale Trail brewery directory, which cited https://whistlebuoybrewing.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 2026-08Claim 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.
Straight answers
Common questions about Whistle Buoy Brewing Co.
- Who owns Whistle Buoy Brewing Co.?
- Whistle Buoy Brewing Co. is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Victoria, Canada.
- Is Whistle Buoy Brewing Co. independent?
- Yes. Whistle Buoy Brewing Co. 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 Whistle Buoy Brewing Co. founded?
- Whistle Buoy Brewing Co. was founded in 2019 in Victoria, Canada.
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