Altitude and Tourists

The Canadian Rockies & Mountain Parks

Alberta, Canada

Breweries

Towns

Tally's take

The character

Brewing inside national parks, which is a licensing situation as much as a beer one. Jasper Brewing opened in 2005 as the first brewery in a Canadian national park; Bearhill Brewing now runs both it and Banff Ave. Canmore sits outside the gates with two breweries and no park restrictions, and Hinton catches everyone coming off Highway 16 before they reach a town.

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The breweries

7 in this scene

Banff, Alberta, Canada

Banff Ave. Brewing Co.

Upstairs on Banff Avenue, pouring to an audience from everywhere. Operated by Bearhill Brewing, which also runs Jasper Brewing — one company holding both national park towns.

IndependentBlack Pilz Czech Dark Lager

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

Canmore Brewing Company

Ten Peaks in the glass and the Three Sisters out the window. Nearly every beer here is a place — the Valley of the Ten Peaks, the Highline trail, the Bow River, Railway Avenue, and Georgetown, which…

IndependentTen Peaks Pale Ale · 5.0%

Jasper, Alberta, Canada

Jasper Brewing Co.

Canada's first brewery inside a national park, and still the place everyone ends up after a day on the Icefields Parkway. Bearhill Brewing operates it alongside Banff Ave.

IndependentJasper Pale Ale

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

Sheepdog Brewing

Dog-friendly by design in a town where everyone has one. Canmore's second brewery, and the one you can bring the whole trailhead crew to.

IndependentThe Herder IPA

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company

Alberta Pass 26. Founder: Niall Fraser. Canmore brewery founded in April 1996 by Niall Fraser from the original Main Street pub. A second dedicated brewery location opened in 2012 on Old Canmore…

Ownership unknownEvolution IPA

Banff, Alberta, Canada

Three Bears Brewery & Restaurant

Alberta Pass 26. Founder: UNKNOWN. Current Banff brewery opened in November 2020 at 205 Bear Street inside Banff National Park, with retractable stargazing roof and on-site beer production. Ownership…

Ownership unknownPinery Pilsner · 4.9%

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

BLAKE Brewhouse & Distillery

Current official site says BLAKE built its own brewery on site and serves rotating house beer; Travel Alberta says the former car garage opened as a restaurant in 2016 and evolved into…

Ownership unknownProfile in progress

Counts here are the length of this list, not an estimate. For why a brewery you know might be missing — closures, shared roofs, contract brands, ownership exclusions — see how we count.