Archive record · Brewery
YQR Distillery / Fermentation Lab
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Also known as Sperling Silver Distillery / Slow Food Brew Pub lineage
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 2025
- Archive ID
- TB-K3ZH06DX
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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From the record
Summary
Status: CLOSED. Former YQR Distillery / Fermentation Lab brewery-distillery identity at 1700 Elphinstone St. Pass 8 preserved a 2025 shareholder snapshot (Z Group Holding Ltd. + Sperling Silver Distilleries Ltd.) and separated the REAL lease assignment from equity. Pass 9 resolves operating succession: Queen City Distillers officially describes itself as the former YQR Distillery, launched under Shaun Semple in October 2025, and by December 2025 had an already-operating distilling/brewing floor with Robert Walsh as Operations Manager and Master Brewmaster. YQR corporate dissolution, trademark ownership and any residual legal entity status remain UNKNOWN; only the brewery operating identity is closed/succeeded. [Canada Pass 26]
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Z Group Holding Ltd.until June 2025
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
CBC/Yahoo report identifies Z Group Holding Ltd. as one of YQR Distillery Ltd.'s two shareholders during the 2025 lease dispute. Current post-dispute position not inferred.
- Owned by Sperling Silver Distilleries Ltd.until June 2025
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
CBC/Yahoo report identifies Sperling Silver Distilleries as the second YQR shareholder during the 2025 dispute. The lease assignment is not treated as equity transfer.
- Owned by Adam Sperlinguntil June 2025
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Contemporary report states Sperling Silver Distilleries was owned by Adam Sperling. This is an indirect YQR ownership path, not proof of a direct personal YQR share percentage.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- Former production site: 1700 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK S4P 2Z6Regina, Saskatchewan
PRODUCTION
Operated by YQR Distillery / Fermentation Lab
Site detail
Former YQR Distillery / Fermentation Lab brewery-distillery identity at 1700 Elphinstone St. Pass 8 preserved a 2025 shareholder snapshot (Z Group Holding Ltd. + Sperling Silver Distilleries Ltd.) and separated the REAL lease assignment from equity. Pass 9 resolves operating succession: Queen City Distillers officially describes itself as the former YQR Distillery, launched under Shaun Semple in October 2025, and by December 2025 had an already-operating distilling/brewing floor with Robert Walsh as Operations Manager and Master Brewmaster. YQR corporate dissolution, trademark ownership and any residual legal entity status remain UNKNOWN; only the brewery operating identity is closed/succeeded.
- 1700 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK S4P 2Z6Regina, Saskatchewan
LICENSED_PREMISES
Operated by YQR Distillery / Fermentation Lab
Site detail
Queen City Distillers officially identifies itself as the former YQR Distillery and states distilling/brewing operations were already operating by Dec. 2025. Corporate dissolution/trademark status of YQR remains UNKNOWN.
These are different physical places. A brewery moving premises is not the same brewery continuing, and the archive keeps them apart.
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