Wind, Coal and Coulees

Southern Prairies & Badlands

Alberta, Canada

Breweries

Towns

Tally's take

The character

Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and the Crowsnest Pass — dry country with a wet history. This is rum-running ground: Alberta went dry in 1916, BC didn't stay dry, and the Pass became one of the busiest smuggling corridors in the country. The Alibi Run retraces it. Lethbridge has now lost a brewery twice, which tells you the margins down here are as thin as the rainfall.

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The breweries

1 in this scene

Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada

The Pass Beer Co.

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…

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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.